Properties of soil pore space regulate pathways of plant residue decomposition and community structure of associated bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Negassa, Wakene C ^a   Guber, Andrey K ^b   Kravchenko, Alexandra N ^b   Marsh, Terence L ^c   Hildebrandt, Britton ^c   Rivers, Mark L ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES   (Germany)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; RNA 16S; RNA 18S; SOIL;

16S RRNA GENE; 18S RRNA GENE; ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; FIRMICUTES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; INCUBATION TIME; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT RESIDUE; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL PORE SPACE; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL WATER CONTENT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84928923173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123999     Document Type: Article

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