Soil bacterial communities respond to mowing and nutrient addition in a steppe ecosystem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Ximei ^a   Chen, Quansheng ^b   Han, Xingguo ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIA; CHINA; DNA PRIMERS; ECOSYSTEM; FERTILIZERS; MICROBIOTA; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 84894133824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084210     Document Type: Article

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