Soil microbial organic nitrogen uptake is regulated by carbon availability

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 77, Issue , 2014, Pages 261-267

  Farrell, Mark ^a   Prendergast Miller, Miranda ^a   Jones, Davey L ^b   Hill, Paul W ^b   Condron, Leo M ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic nitrogen; Grassland soil; Nutrient limitation; Peptide; Rapid uptake

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; MICROORGANISMS; SOIL MOISTURE;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; GRASSLAND SOILS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; RAPID UPTAKE; SOIL MICRO-ORGANISMS; TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS;

PEPTIDES;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; GRASSLAND; METABOLISM; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PEPTIDE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84904035863     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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