Relating microbial community structure to functioning in forest soil organic carbon transformation and turnover

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 633-647

  You, Yeming ^a   Wang, Juan ^a   Huang, Xueman ^b   Tang, Zuoxin ^a   Liu, Shirong ^b   Sun, Osbert J ^a  

^a BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Extracellular enzymes; Forest soil carbon; Pathway analysis; Phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs); Redundancy analysis (RDA); Temperate forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897638875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.969     Document Type: Article

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