Soil nutrient content influences the abundance of soil microbes but not plant biomass at the small-scale

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Koorem, Kadri ^a,b   Gazol, Antonio ^a   Öpik, Maarja ^a   Moora, Mari ^a   Saks, Ülle ^a   Uibopuu, Annika ^a   Sõber, Virve ^a   Zobel, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SOIL;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FOREST; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CONTENT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION PRODUCTIVITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL PROPERTY; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; SPRUCE; SYMBIOSIS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SEASON; SOIL;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ESTONIA; FORESTS; PLANT ROOTS; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84898669445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091998     Document Type: Article

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