Investigating microbial transformations of soil organic matter: Synthesizing knowledge from disparate fields to guide new experimentation

SOIL

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 313-330

  Billings, S A ^a   Tiemann, L K ^b   Ballantyne, F ^c   Lehmeier, C A ^a   Min, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE;

EID: 84945962365     PISSN: 21993971     EISSN: 2199398X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/soil-1-313-2015     Document Type: Article

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