Bacterial community structure and function change in association with colonizer plants during early primary succession in a glacier forefield

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 172-180

  Knelman, Joseph E ^a   Legg, Teresa M ^a   O'Neill, Sean P ^a   Washenberger, Christopher L ^a   González, Antonio ^b   Cleveland, Cory C ^c   Nemergut, Diana R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Colonization; Deglaciation; Glacier forefield; NifH gene; Nitrogen fixation; Plant microbe interactions; Pyrosequencing; Soil microbial community; Succession

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; COLONIZATION; DEGLACIATION; PYROSEQUENCING; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SUCCESSION;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENTS; RNA; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); VEGETATION;

SOILS;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEGLACIATION; EXUDATION; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; SAMPLING; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; TRANSECT; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALASKA; JUNEAU; MENDENHALL GLACIER; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS; ALNUS SINUATA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 84455170926     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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