Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:Nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-7

  Mooshammer, Maria ^a   Wanek, Wolfgang ^a   Hämmerle, Ieda ^a   Fuchslueger, Lucia ^a   Hofhansl, Florian ^a   Knoltsch, Anna ^a   Schnecker, Jörg ^a   Takriti, Mounir ^a   Watzka, Margarete ^a   Wild, Birgit ^a   Keiblinger, Katharina M ^b   Zechmeister Boltenstern, Sophie ^b   Richter, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITROGEN;

DECOMPOSITION; LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; DECOMPOSER; METABOLIC REGULATION; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LITTER; SOIL MICROFLORA; STOICHIOMETRY;

EID: 84898811026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4694     Document Type: Article

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