Soil warming alters microbial substrate use in alpine soils

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1327-1338

  Streit, Kathrin ^a   Hagedorn, Frank ^b   Hiltbrunner, David ^b   Portmann, Magdalena ^c   Saurer, Matthias ^a   Buchmann, Nina ^d   Wild, Birgit ^e   Richter, Andreas ^e   Wipf, Sonja ^f   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c Nova Energie Basel AG   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Continuous 13C labeling; Free air CO2 enrichment (FACE); Fungi; Gram negative bacteria; Gram positive bacteria; Larix decidua; Phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA); Pinus mugo; Soil warming

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOMARKER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUBSTRATE PREFERENCE; WARMING;

FUNGI; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; NEGIBACTERIA; PINUS MUGO; POSIBACTERIA;

CARBON; FATTY ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; LARIX; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PINE; SOIL; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMASS; CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; FATTY ACIDS; LARIX; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PINUS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84896703152     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12396     Document Type: Article

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