Nitrogen Addition Regulates Soil Nematode Community Composition through Ammonium Suppression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Wei, Cunzheng ^a,b,c   Zheng, Huifen ^a,c   Li, Qi ^b   Lü, Xiaotao ^b   Yu, Qiang ^b   Zhang, Haiyang ^b   Chen, Quansheng ^a   He, Nianpeng ^d   Kardol, Paul ^e   Liang, Wenju ^b   Han, Xingguo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; FATTY ACID; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIVORE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FUNGIVORE; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MONGOLIA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OMNIVORE; ORGANISMS BY FEEDING RELATIONSHIP; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR; SOIL MICROFLORA; TAXONOMY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEMATODA; NITROGEN; PLANTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA;

EID: 84865629143     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043384     Document Type: Article

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