Biocrusts control the nitrogen dynamics and microbial functional diversity of semi-arid soils in response to nutrient additions

Plant and Soil

Volumn 372, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 643-654

  Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel ^a   Morillas, Lourdes ^a   Maestre, Fernando T ^b   Gallardo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbon; Dissolved organic N; Mineralization; Phosphorus; Shannon Weaver diversity index

Indexed keywords

BIOME; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DOMINANCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT; PHOSPHORUS; RESILIENCE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL;

SPAIN;

BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84886299623     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-013-1779-9     Document Type: Article

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