Two decades of warming increases diversity of a potentially lignolytic bacterial community

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Pold, Grace ^a   Melillo, Jerry M ^b   DeAngelis, Kristen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bio Sep beads; Chemically complex carbon; Climate change; In situ enrichment; Lignin degradation; Microbial ecology; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

LIGNIN; RNA 16S;

ACINETOBACTER; AGROBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BURKHOLDERIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME ASSAY; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; LIGNOLYTIC BACTERIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL RESPIRATION; SPHINGOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OTUS;

EID: 84931274254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00480     Document Type: Article

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