Manipulation of the Dissolved Organic Carbon Pool in an Agricultural Stream: Responses in Microbial Community Structure, Denitrification, and Assimilatory Nitrogen Uptake

Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1027-1038

  Johnson, Laura T ^a   Royer, Todd V ^a   Edgerton, Jael M ^b   Leff, Laura G ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; denitrification; dissolved organic carbon; Indiana; microbial community; nitrogen; nosZ; stream metabolism

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN; STOICHIOMETRY; STREAM; WATER COLUMN;

INDIANA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84865376898     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9563-x     Document Type: Article

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