A new tool of the trade: Plant-trait based approaches in microbial ecology

Plant and Soil

Volumn 365, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 35-40

  Powell, Jeff R ^a   Anderson, Ian C ^a   Rillig, Matthias C ^b  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causality; Ecophysiological approaches; Ecosystem services; Environmental microbiology; Functional diversity; Functional traits; Multifunctionality

Indexed keywords

ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY;

EID: 84875071123     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1581-0     Document Type: Article

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