Patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities along a precipitation gradient on the Mongolian Plateau

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1669-1682

  Chen, Dima ^a   Mi, Jia ^a   Chu, Pengfei ^a   Cheng, Junhui ^a   Zhang, Lixia ^a   Pan, Qingmin ^a   Xie, Yichun ^b   Bai, Yongfei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plant community; PLFA; Precipitation gradient; Soil microbial community; Soil properties; The Inner Mongolia grassland transect

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84942503202     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-9996-z     Document Type: Article

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