Nitrogen loading levels affect abundance and composition of soil ammonia oxidizing prokaryotes in semiarid temperate grassland

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1243-1252

  Shen, Xin Yi ^a,b   Zhang, Li Mei ^a   Shen, Ju Pei ^a   Li, Ling Hao ^c   Yuan, Chao Lei ^a,b   He, Ji Zheng ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; amoA gene; Inner Mongolia; Nitrification; Nitrogen deposition

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACID SOIL; ACIDIFICATION; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; DIVERSITY INDEX; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GENE; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEMIARID REGION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; UREA; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 80052623494     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-011-0375-y     Document Type: Article

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