Soil microbial communities in (sub)alpine grasslands indicate a moderate shift towards new environmental conditions 11 years after soil translocation

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1148-1154

  Budge, Karen ^a   Leifeld, Jens ^a   Egli, Markus ^b   Fuhrer, Jürg ^a  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine soil; Climate change; Microbial community; Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis

Indexed keywords

ALPINE SOIL; ECTOMYCORRHIZAL; ELEVATION GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRASSLAND SOILS; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACID (PLFA) ANALYSIS; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; SITE CONDITIONS; SOIL CORES; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL TRANSLOCATION; STRUCTURAL GROUPS; SWISS ALPS; UNDISTURBED SOILS;

FATTY ACIDS; FUNGI; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SOILS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ELEVATION; FATTY ACID; GRASSLAND SOIL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TRANSLOCATION; TREELINE;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI;

EID: 79954574736     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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