Nitrous oxide emissions from ephemeral wetland soils are correlated with microbial community composition

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue JUNE, 2011, Pages

  Ma, Wai K ^a   Farrell, Richard E ^a   Siciliano, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bacterial amoA; Denitrification; Nitrification; Nitrous oxide emissions; NosZ

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859892072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00110     Document Type: Article

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