Soil bacterial community structure remains stable over a 5-year chronosequence of insect-induced tree mortality

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Ferrenberg, Scott ^a   Knelman, Joseph E ^a   Jones, Jennifer M ^b   Beals, Stower C ^a   Bowman, William D ^a   Nemergut, Diana R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing; Biogeochemistry; Community assembly; Disturbance ecology; Resistance; Soil microbial community; Soil processes

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECOSYSTEM; FLOW INJECTION ANALYSIS; GRAVIMETRY; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORTALITY; NITROGEN MINERALIZATION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT TAXONOMY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL MOISTURE; TREE MORTALITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84920700102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00681     Document Type: Article

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