Microbial activity and community composition in saline and non-saline soils exposed to multiple drying and rewetting events

Plant and Soil

Volumn 348, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 103-113

  Chowdhury, Nasrin ^a   Nakatani, Andre S ^b   Setia, Raj ^a   Marschner, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Drying and rewetting; Phospholipid fatty acid analysis; Respiration; Salinity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATTY ACID; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OSMOSIS; REWETTING; SALINE SOIL; SALINITY; SANDY LOAM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL RESPIRATION; STRAW; SUBSTRATE; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 80053565788     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0918-4     Document Type: Article

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