Effects of grazing on N2O production potential and abundance of nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities in meadow-steppe grassland in northern China

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-10

  Zhong, Lei ^a,b   Du, Rui ^a   Ding, Kai ^a   Kang, Xiaoming ^c   Li, Frank Yonghong ^b   Bowatte, Saman ^b   Hoogendoorn, Coby J ^b   Wang, Yanfen ^a,d   Rui, Yichao ^a   Jiang, Lili ^a   Wang, Shiping ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Acetylene inhibition method; Arid; Microbial functional groups; Q PCR; Soil moisture; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; ARID; INHIBITION METHODS; POTENTIAL NITRIFICATION; Q-PCR; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GENES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REDUCTION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GROWING SEASON; LAND DEGRADATION; MEADOW; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROUS OXIDE; SOIL MOISTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84887361578     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.10.028     Document Type: Article

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