Chronic N-amended soils exhibit an altered bacterial community structure in Harvard Forest, MA, USA

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 478-493

  Turlapati, Swathi A ^a   Minocha, Rakesh ^b   Bhiravarasa, Premsai S ^a   Tisa, Louis S ^a   Thomas, William K ^a   Minocha, Subhash C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial composition; Forest soils; Indicator species; Pyrosequencing; Qiime software; Unique operational taxonomic units

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM NITRATE; BACTERIAL DNA; FERTILIZER; NITRATE; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOREST SOIL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NITROGEN; ORDINATION; PHYLOGENETICS; SOFTWARE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SOIL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERTILIZERS; GENES, RRNA; MASSACHUSETTS; NITRATES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

HARVARD FOREST; MASSACHUSETTS; PETERSHAM; UNITED STATES;

ACIDOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84871987337     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12009     Document Type: Article

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