Changes in microbial communities along redox gradients in polygonized Arctic wet tundra soils

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 649-657

  Lipson, David A ^a   Raab, Theodore K ^b   Parker, Melanie ^a   Kelley, Scott T ^a   Brislawn, Colin J ^c   Jansson, Janet ^c  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEROIDETES; FIRMICUTES;

LACTIC ACID; SOIL;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH; SOIL; TUNDRA;

ALASKA; ARCTIC REGIONS; BIOTA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTIC ACID; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TUNDRA;

EID: 84937395450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12301     Document Type: Article

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