Microbial functional diversity enhances predictive models linking environmental parameters to ecosystem properties

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1985-1993

  Powell, Jeff R ^a   Welsh, Allana ^b   Hallin, Sara ^c   Allison, S D ^d  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Denitrification; Ecosystem services; Functional diversity; Model selection; Multimodel inference; Nitrogen cycling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DENITRIFICATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; PARAMETERIZATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DENITRIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84927533560     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1127.1     Document Type: Article

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