Experimental drought reduces the transfer of recently fixed plant carbon to soil microbes and alters the bacterial community composition in a mountain meadow

New Phytologist

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 916-927

  Fuchslueger, Lucia ^a   Bahn, Michael ^b   Fritz, Karina ^b   Hasibeder, Roland ^b   Richter, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

13C pulse labelling; Carbon allocation; Drought; Microbial community composition; Mountain grassland; Mowing; Phospholipid fatty acids

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATTY ACID; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOWING; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; POSIBACTERIA;

CARBON; NITROGEN; WATER;

13C PULSE-LABELLING; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIOMASS; CARBON ALLOCATION; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MICROFLORA; MOUNTAIN GRASSLAND; MOWING; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACIDS; SOIL; TIME;

13C PULSE-LABELLING; CARBON ALLOCATION; DROUGHT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MOUNTAIN GRASSLAND; MOWING; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACIDS;

AUSTRIA; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIOTA; MICROCLIMATE; NITROGEN; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84891901217     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12569     Document Type: Article

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