Incorporation of carbon from decomposing litter of two pioneer plant species into microbial communities of the detritusphere

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 320, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-55

  Esperschütz, Jürgen ^a,b   Welzl, Gerhard ^b   Schreiner, Karin ^b   Buegger, Franz ^b   Munch, Jean Charles ^a,b   Schloter, Michael ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colonizer plant; Ecosystem development; Litter decomposition; Microbial biomass; Microbial food web; Pioneer plant

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; FUNGUS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; CARBON; FUNGI; LOTUS; POACEAE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CALAMAGROSTIS EPIGEIOS; FUNGI; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 79957905180     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02286.x     Document Type: Article

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