Soil environmental conditions rather than denitrifier abundance and diversity drive potential denitrification after changes in land uses

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1975-1989

  Attard, E ^a   Recous, S ^b   Chabbi, A ^c   De Berranger, C ^c   Guillaumaud, N ^a   Labreuche, J ^d   Philippot, L ^e   Schmid, B ^f   Le Roux, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UMR614 FARE   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d ARVALIS Institut du Vegetal   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Land use change; No tillage; Soil C and N dynamics; Soil microbial ecology; Soil organic carbon; Temporary grassland

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BIODIVERSITY; DENITRIFICATION; EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GRASSLAND SOIL; LAND USE CHANGE; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; NITRATE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORGANIC CARBON; PORE SPACE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DYNAMICS; SOIL NITROGEN; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 79953289916     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02340.x     Document Type: Article

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