Rapid recovery of soil bacterial communities after wildfire in a Chinese boreal forest

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xiang, Xingjia ^a,c   Shi, Yu ^a,c   Yang, Jian ^b   Kong, Jianjian ^b,c   Lin, Xiangui ^a   Zhang, Huayong ^a   Zeng, Jun ^a   Chu, Haiyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; NITROGEN; RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; FIRE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FIRES; NITROGEN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84923813933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03829     Document Type: Article

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