Seasonal variations in the diversityand abundance of diazotrophic communities across soils

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-68

  Pereira e Silva, Michele C ^a   Semenov, Alexander V ^a   Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a   Salles, Joana Falcão ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abundance; Baseline; Diversity; NifH; Soil; Soil type

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BODY SIZE; CLAY SOIL; GROWING SEASON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL TYPE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BACTERIAL DNA; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; SEASON; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFICATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; GENE LIBRARY; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79960799888     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01081.x     Document Type: Article

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