Seasonal patterns of microbial extracellular enzyme activities in an arctic tundra soil: Identifying direct and indirect effects of long-term summer warming

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 119-129

  Sistla, Seeta A ^a   Schimel, Joshua P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic tundra; Carbon cycling; Decomposition; Extracellular enzyme activity; Indirect effects of long term warming; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC TUNDRA; CARBON CYCLING; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITY; INDIRECT EFFECTS; SEASONALITY;

BIOMASS; CARBON; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSES; LANDFORMS; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; THAWING;

ENZYME ACTIVITY;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; DECOMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SEASONALITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STOICHIOMETRY; SUMMER; TUNDRA SOIL;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84882657215     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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