Quality of fresh organic matter affects priming of soil organic matter and substrate utilization patterns of microbes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Hui ^a,b   Boutton, Thomas W ^c   Xu, Wenhua ^a   Hu, Guoqing ^a,b   Jiang, Ping ^a   Bai, Edith ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; FATTY ACID; MINERAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOIL;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL; TIME FACTOR;

BACTERIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; FATTY ACIDS; MINERALS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84929168771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10102     Document Type: Article

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