Microbial community dynamics alleviate stoichiometric constraints during litter decay

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 680-690

  Kaiser, Christina ^a,b   Franklin, Oskar ^a   Dieckmann, Ulf ^a   Richter, Andreas ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Ecological stoichiometry; Functional microbial groups; Individual based modelling; Litter decomposition; Micro scale spatial structure; Microbial community composition; Nitrogen cycling

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARBON CYCLING; ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MICROBIAL GROUPS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELLING; LETTER; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; METABOLISM; MICRO-SCALE SPATIAL STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN CYCLING; PLANT LEAF;

CARBON CYCLING; ECOLOGICAL STOICHIOMETRY; FUNCTIONAL MICROBIAL GROUPS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELLING; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; MICRO-SCALE SPATIAL STRUCTURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; NITROGEN CYCLING;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 84899995051     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12269     Document Type: Article

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