Cattle trampling alters soil properties and changes soil microbial communities in a Swiss sub-alpine pasture

Geoderma

Volumn 170, Issue , 2012, Pages 369-377

  Hiltbrunner, David ^a,b   Schulze, Sebastian ^a   Hagedorn, Frank ^a   Schmidt, Michael W I ^b   Zimmmermann, Stephan ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine pastures; Livestock trampling; Microbial communities; Soil carbon; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ALPINE PASTURES; LIVESTOCK TRAMPLING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION;

CARBON; EROSION; FATTY ACIDS; FORESTRY; FUNGI; ISOTOPES; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

SOILS;

BARE SOIL; BULK DENSITY; CATTLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ERGOSTEROL; FATTY ACID; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC SOIL; PASTURE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL EROSION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TOPSOIL; TRAMPLING;

SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; BOS; FUNGI;

EID: 84455173921     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2011.11.026     Document Type: Article

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