Succession of N cycling processes in biological soil crusts on a Central European inland dune

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 149-160

  Brankatschk, Robert ^a   Fischer, Thomas ^b   Veste, Maik ^c   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Centre for Energy Technology Brandenburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Enzyme assays; Mineralisation; Nitrification; Nitrogen fixation; Quantitative real time qPCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; NITROGEN; SILICON DIOXIDE;

BIOASSAY; DENITRIFICATION; DUNE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL CRUST; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TURNOVER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; POACEAE; SOIL;

BACTERIA; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; POACEAE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

CORYNEPHORUS CANESCENS;

EID: 84870867058     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01459.x     Document Type: Article

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