Microbial community structure varies across soil organic matter aggregate pools during tropical land cover change

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 77, Issue , 2014, Pages 292-303

  Smith, A P ^a   Marin Spiotta E ^a   de Graaff, M A ^b   Balser, T C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microbial community; PLFA; Soil aggregates; Soil carbon; Tropical forest recovery

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BACTERIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON; FORESTRY; LAKES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SILT; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PLFA; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; TROPICAL FOREST;

STABILIZATION;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNGUS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TROPICAL FOREST;

AGGREGATE; BIOCHEMISTRY; FORESTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; LIPIDS; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL; TROPICS;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84904565208     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.05.030     Document Type: Article

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