Long-term experimental nitrogen deposition alters the composition of the active fungal community in the forest floor

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1648-1658

  Entwistle, Elizabeth M ^a   Zak, Donald R ^a   Edwards, Ivan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FLOORS; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; LONG-TERM FIELD EXPERIMENTS; NITROGEN DEPOSITION; NORTHERN HARDWOODS; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTERS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FUNGI; RNA;

FORESTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST FLOOR; FOREST SOIL; FUNGUS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNGI; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884868588     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2013.05.0179     Document Type: Article

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