Effects of understory removal and tree girdling on soil microbial community composition and litter decomposition in two Eucalyptus plantations in South China

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 921-931

  Wu, Jianping ^a,b   Liu, Zhanfeng ^a   Wang, Xiaoling ^a,b   Sun, Yuxin ^b,c   Zhou, Lixia ^a   Lin, Yongbiao ^a   Fu, Shenglei ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus; Forest management; Girdling; Phospholipid fatty acids; Principal response curves; Redundancy analysis; Understory

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DECOMPOSITION; EVERGREEN FOREST; FATTY ACID; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNGUS; LITTERFALL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MYCORRHIZA; PHOSPHOLIPID; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RESPROUTING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

CHINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 79959826074     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01845.x     Document Type: Article

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