How water-level drawdown modifies litter-decomposing fungal and actinobacterial communities in boreal peatlands

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 20-34

  Peltoniemi, Krista ^a   Straková, Petra ^b   Fritze, Hannu ^a   Iráizoz, Pablo Alvira ^c   Pennanen, Taina ^a   Laiho, Raija ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c CIEMAT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Actinobacterial community; CCA; DGGE; Fungal community; Litter quality; Peatlands; Water level drawdown

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CCA; DGGE; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; LITTER QUALITY; PEAT LAND; WATER-LEVEL DRAWDOWN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DECOMPOSITION; FORESTRY; GENE ENCODING; GLOBAL WARMING; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION; VEHICLES; WATER LEVELS; WETLANDS;

FUNGI;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECOMPOSITION; DRAWDOWN; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNGUS; GLOBAL WARMING; LITTER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC CARBON; PEATLAND; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SAPROTROPHY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; WATER LEVEL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; FUNGI;

EID: 84860877872     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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