Tracking the fate of microbially sequestered carbon dioxide in soil organic matter

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5128-5137

  Hart, Kris M ^a   Kulakova, Anna N ^b   Allen, Christopher C R ^b   Simpson, Andre J ^c   Oppenheimer, Seth F ^d   Masoom, Hussain ^c   Courtier Murias, Denis ^c,f   Soong, Ronald ^c   Kulakov, Leonid A ^b   Flanagan, Paul V ^b   Murphy, Brian T ^a   Kelleher, Brian P ^a,e  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Irish Separation Science Cluster ^*  (Ireland)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC BACTERIA; MICROBIAL CONTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR INFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE(NMR); SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS; STABLE-ISOTOPE PROBING;

BACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; LIPID; PROTEIN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; STABLE ISOTOPE;

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TRACKING;

ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOIL MICROFLORA; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CULTURE MEDIA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 84878226637     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3050696     Document Type: Article

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