Shifts in the abundance and community structure of soil ammonia oxidizers in a wet sclerophyll forest under long-term prescribed burning

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 470-471, Issue , 2014, Pages 578-586

  Long, Xi En ^a,b   Chen, Chengrong ^a   Xu, Zhihong ^a   He, Ji zheng ^a,c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Abundance; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; Ammonia oxidizing bacteria; Community composition; Nitrification; Prescribed burning

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEFORESTATION; GENES; NITRIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOILS;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; PRESCRIBED BURNING;

FIRES;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIUM; BIOME; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOREST SOIL; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE ECOLOGY; FOREST; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DEFORESTATION; FIRES; GENES; NITRIFICATION; SOIL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; NITRIFICATION; PRESCRIBED BURNING;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; FORESTRY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84886572423     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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