Wetland response to sedimentation and nitrogen loading: Diversification and inhibition of nitrogen-fixing microbes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1556-1568

  Moseman Valtierra, S M ^a   Armaiz Nolla, K ^b   Levin, L A ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Scripps Institution of Oceanography ^*  (United States)

^c INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Diazotrophs; Diversity; Salt marsh; Spartina foliosa; T RFLP; Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism; Tijuana estuary; Triple border fence; USA; Watershed

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACETYLENE; AMMONIUM; AMMONIUM NITRATE; ASSAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOODING; FLUORESCENCE; GRASS; INHIBITION; INSTABILITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; POLYMORPHISM; POREWATER; RHIZOSPHERE; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STORM; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT; WETLAND; BACTERIA;

BACTERIA; CALIFORNIA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WETLANDS;

CALIFORNIA; TIJUANA ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

SPARTINA FOLIOSA; TINA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 77956423104     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1881.1     Document Type: Article

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