Impact of fire on active layer and permafrost microbial communities and metagenomes in an upland Alaskan boreal forest

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1904-1919

  Taş, Neslihan ^a   Prestat, Emmanuel ^a   McFarland, Jack W ^b   Wickland, Kimberley P ^c   Knight, Rob ^d   Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw ^e   Jorgenson, Torre ^f   Waldrop, Mark P ^a   Jansson, Janet K ^a,g,h  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Alaska Ecoscience   (United States)

^g DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h JOINT BIOENERGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

boreal forest; climate change; metagenomics; microbial community response; permafrost; wildfire

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GENOMICS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PERMAFROST; SOIL MICROORGANISM; WILDFIRE;

ALASKA; NOME CREEK; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA;

CARBON;

BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; FIRE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; PERMAFROST; TAIGA; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; FIRES; METAGENOME; PERMAFROST; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TAIGA;

EID: 84906941824     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.36     Document Type: Article

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