Carbon flux through fungi and bacteria into the forest soil animal food web as indicated by compound-specific 13C fatty acid analysis

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 978-990

  Pollierer, Melanie M ^a   Dyckmans, Jens ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a   Haubert, Dominique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial energy channel; Basal resources; Carbon fluxes; CO 2 labelling; Decomposers; Food web stability; Fungal energy channel; Predators; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; CARBON FLUX; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; ENERGY FLUX; EXUDATION; FATTY ACID; FOOD WEB; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; LEAF LITTER; NICHE PARTITIONING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84863995631     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02005.x     Document Type: Article

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