Consequences of exclusion of precipitation on microorganisms and microbial consumers in montane tropical rainforests

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1067-1076

  Krashevska, Valentyna ^a   Sandmann, Dorothee ^a   Maraun, Mark ^a   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ergosterol; Food web; Microbial biomass; Rain exclusion; Testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECOMPOSITION; ERGOSTEROL; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FOOD WEB; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; POPULATION DECLINE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROTOZOAN; RAINFOREST; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL MOISTURE; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL FOREST; TURNOVER;

ECUADOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84869086870     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2360-6     Document Type: Article

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