Impact of wildfire intensity and logging on fungal and nitrogen-cycling bacterial communities in British Columbia forest soils

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 787-794

  Kennedy, Nabla ^a   Egger, Keith N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire; Fungi; Logging; NifH; NosZ; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DENITRIFIERS; DOUGLAS FIR; FOREST FLOORS; FOREST SOILS; IN-CONTROL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RHIZOSPHERE SOILS; RIBOSOMAL RNA; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL INTERFACES; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; TREE SEEDLINGS;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; FIRES; FUNGI; GENES; NITROGEN; REFORESTATION; RNA; SEED; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOILS;

CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LOGGING (TIMBER); MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGENERATION; RHIZOSPHERE; SEEDLING; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; WILDFIRE;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIOLOGY; FIRES; FUNGI; GENES; LOGGING; NITROGEN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEIC ACIDS; REFORESTATION; SEEDS; SOIL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 77954959183     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.05.037     Document Type: Article

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