Long-term exclusion of plant-inputs to soil reduces the functional capacity of microbial communities to mineralise recalcitrant root-derived carbon sources

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1873-1880

  Paterson, Eric ^a   Sim, Allan ^a   Osborne, Shona M ^a   Murray, Phil J ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b North Wyke Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C mineralisation; Functional redundancy; Microbial community structure; Plant derived C; PLFA

Indexed keywords

C-MINERALISATION; FUNCTIONAL REDUNDANCY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; PLANT-DERIVED C; PLFA;

FATTY ACIDS; MICROORGANISMS; MINERALOGY; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REDUNDANCY; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SUBSTRATES;

SOILS;

BARE SOIL; BIOMARKER; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FALLOW; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; RECOGNITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBSTRATE; TRACER;

EID: 80051471703     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.05.006     Document Type: Article

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