The Effects of Soil Bacterial Community Structure on Decomposition in a Tropical Rain Forest

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 284-298

  Leff, Jonathan W ^a   Nemergut, Diana R ^b   Grandy, A Stuart ^c   O'Neill, Sean P ^b   Wickings, Kyle ^c   Townsend, Alan R ^b   Cleveland, Cory C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial diversity; carbon cycle; decomposition; ecosystem function; lowland tropical rain forest; microbial community composition; organic matter; pyrosequencing; soil microbiology; soil respiration

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC CARBON; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84857788114     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9510-2     Document Type: Article

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