Community structure of soil phototrophs along environmental gradients in arid Himalaya

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2505-2516

  Janatková, Kateřina ^a,b   Řeháková, Klára ^a   Doležal, Jiří ^a,b   Šimek, Miloslav ^b,c   Chlumská, Zuzana ^a,b   Dvorský, Miroslav ^a,b   Kopecký, Martin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; NITROGENASE;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS VAGINATUS; NOSTOC; PHORMIDIUM;

EID: 84883554941     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12132     Document Type: Article

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