Soil property and management effects on grassland microbial communities across a latitudinal gradient in Germany

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 41-50

  Herold, Nadine ^a   Schöning, Ingo ^a   Gutknecht, Jessica ^b   Alt, Fabian ^c   Boch, Steffen ^d   Müller, Jörg ^e   Oelmann, Yvonne ^c   Socher, Stephanie A ^d   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^d   Wubet, Tesfaye ^b   Schrumpf, Marion ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degraded peat soils; Land use intensity; Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA); Specific enzyme activities; Temperate grasslands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884169292     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.07.009     Document Type: Article

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