Temperature impacts differentially on the methanogenic food web of cellulose-supplemented peatland soil

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 720-734

  Schmidt, Oliver ^a   Horn, Marcus A ^a   Kolb, Steffen ^a   Drake, Harold L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOBACTERIACEAE; CLOSTRIDIACEAE; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; METHANOSAETA; METHANOSARCINA; PORPHYROMONADACEAE; PROLIXIBACTER; SPIROCHAETACEAE; UNCLASSIFIED BACTERIA; UNCLASSIFIED BACTEROIDETES;

ACETIC ACID; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; METHANE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; SOIL;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHANOSARCINACEAE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

ACETIC ACID; ANAEROBIOSIS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; ECOSYSTEM; EURYARCHAEOTA; FOOD CHAIN; METHANE; METHANOSARCINACEAE; PROPIONATES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84925075975     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12507     Document Type: Article

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