Soil aggregate size mediates the impacts of cropping regimes on soil carbon and microbial communities

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 169-181

  Trivedi, Pankaj ^a   Rochester, Ian J ^b   Trivedi, Chanda ^a   Van Nostrand, Joy D ^c   Zhou, Jizhong ^c   Karunaratne, Senani ^a   Anderson, Ian C ^a   Singh, Brajesh K ^a,d  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO Agriculture   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crop rotations; Enzyme activity; Soil aggregates; Soil carbon; Soil microbial community

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; CLAY; CROPS; ECOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

AGGREGATE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; AGGREGATE-SIZE FRACTIONS; CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; CROP ROTATION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

SOILS;

AGGREGATE SIZE; BACTERIUM; CARBON BALANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CROP ROTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROHABITAT; SILTY SOIL; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 84942102594     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.08.034     Document Type: Article

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