Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Impacts Abundance and Diversity of Nitrogen Cycling Functional Genes in Soil

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 394-404

  Kelly, John J ^a   Peterson, Emily ^a   Winkelman, Jonathan ^a   Walter, Teagan J ^b   Rier, Steven T ^c   Tuchman, Nancy C ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIACEAE; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLE; POPULUS;

ARCHAEA; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDOREDUCTASES; POPULUS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873522902     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0122-y     Document Type: Article

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