Contrasting denitrifier communities relate to contrasting N 2O emission patterns from acidic peat soils in arctic tundra

ISME Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1058-1077

  Palmer, Katharina ^a   Biasi, Christina ^b   Horn, Marcus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

barcoded amplicon pyrosequencing; global change; permafrost affected soil; quantitative PCR; wetland

Indexed keywords

ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROREDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CRYOTURBATION; DENITRIFICATION; FROST; GLOBAL CHANGE; MICROCOSM; NITRATE; NITROUS OXIDE; PEAT SOIL; PERMAFROST; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TAXONOMY; TUNDRA; WETLAND;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOIL;

ACIDS; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; NITRATES; NITRITES; NITROREDUCTASES; NITROUS OXIDE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUSSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84859905060     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.172     Document Type: Article

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