Nitrification rates in Arctic soils are associated with functionally distinct populations of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1620-1631

  Alves, Ricardo J Eloy ^a   Wanek, Wolfgang ^a   Zappe, Anna ^a   Richter, Andreas ^a   Svenning, Mette M ^b   Schleper, Christa ^a   Urich, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

15N pool dilution; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; amoA; Arctic soils; Nitrification; Thaumarchaeota

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; RNA 16S;

AMMONIA; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CATALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OXIDATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; REACTION RATE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARCHAEON; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84880917113     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.35     Document Type: Article

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