Ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers in response to reciprocal elevation translocation in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1189-1199

  Zheng, Yong ^a,b   Yang, Wei ^a   Hu, Hang Wei ^b   Kim, Yong Chan ^a   Duan, Ji Chuang ^c   Luo, Cai Yun ^c   Wang, Shi Ping ^d   Guo, Liang Dong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Abundance; Ammonia oxidizing microorganism; Clone library; Community structure; Denitrifying bacteria; Quantitative PCR

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; AMMONIA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CLONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENITRIFICATION; MEADOW; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSLOCATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84901244545     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-014-0867-7     Document Type: Article

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