Soil microbial community structure explains the resistance of respiration to a dry–rewet cycle, but not soil functioning under static conditions

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1430-1439

  Orwin, Kate H ^a,b   Dickie, Ian A ^b,c   Wood, Jamie R ^b   Bonner, Karen I ^b   Holdaway, Robert J ^b  

^a Delaware Cres ^*  (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

carbon cycling; drought; Gram positive : Gram negative ratio; microbial diversity; nutrient cycling; phospholipid fatty acid analyses; wet dry cycles

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FATTY ACID; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RESPIRATION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; WETTING-DRYING CYCLE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84951731726     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12610     Document Type: Article

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