Experimentally simulated global warming and nitrogen enrichment effects on microbial litter decomposers in a marsh

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 803-809

  Flury, Sabine ^a,b   Gessner, Mark O ^a,b,c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WARMING; BACTERIAL BIOMASS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CLIMATE WARMING; DECOMPOSERS; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FRESHWATER MARSHES; FUNGAL BIOMASS; LITTERBAGS; MESH SIZE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL PARAMETERS; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NITROGEN ENRICHMENT; NITROGEN SUPPLY; NITROGEN-ENRICHED; PLANT LITTER; SAMPLING DATES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

BACTERIOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENCLOSURES; GLOBAL WARMING; MICROORGANISMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WETLANDS;

NITROGEN;

FRESH WATER; NITROGEN;

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; FRESHWATER; GLOBAL WARMING; LEAF LITTER; MARSH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; CLIMATE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANT LEAF; WETLAND;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; FUNGI; GLOBAL WARMING; NITROGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANT LEAVES; WETLANDS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79551490977     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01527-10     Document Type: Article

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