Plot-scale manipulations of organic matter inputs to soils correlate with shifts in microbial community composition in a lowland tropical rain forest

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2153-2160

  Nemergut, Diana R ^a   Cleveland, Cory C ^b   Wieder, William R ^a   Washenberger, Christopher L ^a   Townsend, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Acidobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Archaea; Lowland tropical rain forest; Pyrosequencing; Soil carbon cycling; Soil microbial community

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; ACIDOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; PYROSEQUENCING; SOIL CARBON CYCLING; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GENES; LAKES; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAIN; RNA; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPICS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; LITTER; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC MATTER; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; THROUGHFALL; TROPICAL FOREST;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GENES; GEOCHEMISTRY; LAKES; MICROORGANISMS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RAIN; TROPICS;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NITROSPIRA;

EID: 78650187493     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

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