Response of the Abundance of Key Soil Microbial Nitrogen-Cycling Genes to Multi-Factorial Global Changes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Ximei ^a,b   Liu, Wei ^b   Schloter, Michael ^c   Zhang, Guangming ^b   Chen, Quansheng ^b   Huang, Jianhui ^b   Li, Linghao ^b   Elser, James J ^d   Han, Xingguo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; WATER;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; ARTICLE; CHIA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MINERALIZATION; NIFH GENE; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NOSZ GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROFLORA; STEPPE; WARMING;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MICROBIOTA; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84885080764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076500     Document Type: Article

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