Controls on soil microbial community stability under climate change

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  De Vries, Franciska T ^a   Shade, Ashley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Disturbance; Drought; Fungi; PLFA; Pyrosequencing; Resilience; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOISTURE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; PYROSEQUENCING; SOIL MICROFLORA;

FUNGI;

EID: 84885396845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00265     Document Type: Article

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