Soil organic matter quality as a link between microbial community structure and vegetation composition along a successional gradient in a boreal forest

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 259-267

  Merilä, Päivi ^a   Malmivaara Lämsä, Minna ^a   Spetz, Peter ^a   Stark, Sari ^a   Vierikko, Kati ^b   Derome, John ^a   Fritze, Hannu ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Global non metric multidimensional scaling (GNMDS); Microbial community structure; Organic matter characterization; Phospholipid fatty acid analysis; Primary succession; Vegetation community structure

Indexed keywords

ALNUS; PICEA; POACEAE; SALIX;

EID: 77957340586     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.08.003     Document Type: Article

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