Soil Environmental Conditions and Microbial Build-Up Mediate the Effect of Plant Diversity on Soil Nitrifying and Denitrifying Enzyme Activities in Temperate Grasslands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Le Roux, Xavier ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^b   Poly, Franck ^a   Barnard, Romain L ^c   Niklaus, Pascal A ^c   Guillaumaud, Nadine ^a   Habekost, Maike ^d   Oelmann, Yvonne ^e   Philippot, Laurent ^f   Salles, Joana Falcao ^a   Schloter, Michael ^g   Steinbeiss, Sibylle ^d   Weigelt, Alexandra ^h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f CEMAGREF   (France)

^g INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^h FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GRASS; LEGUME; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE GRASSLAND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMES; FABACEAE; NITRIFICATION; POACEAE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES; POACEAE;

EID: 84876244658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061069     Document Type: Article

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