Soil microbial carbon turnover decreases with increasing molecular size

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-118

  Malik, Ashish ^a   Blagodatskaya, Evgenia ^a,b,c   Gleixner, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Carbon stable isotopes; Chloroform fumigation extraction; LC IRMS; Molecular size; Soil microbial biomass

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLING; CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; FUMIGATION EXTRACTIONS; LC-IRMS; MOLECULAR SIZE; SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EXTRACTION; FUMIGATION; ISOTOPES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOILS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION;

CARBON;

C4 PLANT; CARBON CYCLE; CHLOROFORM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIPID; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION;

EID: 84876340834     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.02.022     Document Type: Article

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