Microbial community composition shapes enzyme patterns in topsoil and subsoil horizons along a latitudinal transect in Western Siberia

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-115

  Schnecker, Jörg ^a,b   Wild, Birgit ^a,b   Takriti, Mounir ^a,b   Eloy Alves, Ricardo J ^a,b   Gentsch, Norman ^c   Gittel, Antje ^d,e   Hofer, Angelika ^a   Klaus, Karoline ^a   Knoltsch, Anna ^a,b   Lashchinskiy, Nikolay ^f   Mikutta, Robert ^c   Richter, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Austrian Polar Research Institute   (Austria)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Boreal forests; Extracellular enzymes; Permafrost; PLFA; Steppe; Tundra

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FATTY ACIDS; FORESTRY; MICROORGANISMS; MINERALS; ORGANIC CARBON; PERMAFROST; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; STABILIZATION;

BOREAL FORESTS; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES; PLFA; STEPPE; TUNDRA;

ENZYMES;

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PERMAFROST; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STEPPE; SUBSOIL; TOPSOIL; TUNDRA;

SIBERIA;

EID: 84922621068     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.01.016     Document Type: Article

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