Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Purahong, Witoon ^a,b   Schloter, Michael ^c   Pecyna, Marek J ^d   Kapturska, Danuta ^a,d   Däumlich, Veronika ^a   Mital, Sanchit ^a   Buscot, François ^a,e,f   Hofrichter, Martin ^d   Gutknecht, Jessica L M ^a,g   Krüger, Dirk ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEECH; DECOMPOSITION; DRIVER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUROPE; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LEAF LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SOIL; TREE;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE 1,4 BETA CELLOBIOSIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PEROXIDASE; SOIL;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOMASS; CELLULASES; CELLULOSE 1,4-BETA-CELLOBIOSIDASE; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; FAGUS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PEROXIDASES; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

EID: 84923087028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07014     Document Type: Article

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