Forest harvesting reduces the soil metagenomic potential for biomass decomposition

ISME Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2465-2476

  Cardenas, Erick ^a   Kranabetter, J M ^b   Hope, Graeme ^b   Maas, Kendra R ^a   Hallam, Steven ^a   Mohn, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CELLULOSE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; FOREST PRODUCT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; HARVESTING; LIGNIN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TEMPERATE FOREST;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; CELLULOSE; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNIN; PECTIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; SOIL;

BACTERIAL GENE; BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; CONIFER; DNA SEQUENCE; FOREST; FUNGAL GENE; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SOIL;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CELLULOSE; CONIFEROPHYTA; FORESTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; LIGNIN; METAGENOME; METAGENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PECTINS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84945479957     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.57     Document Type: Article

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