Long term repeated fire disturbance alters soil bacterial diversity but not the abundance in an Australian wet sclerophyll forest

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Shen, Ju Pei ^a,b   Chen, C R ^a   Lewis, Tom ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SOIL;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FOREST; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FORESTS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84955586101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep19639     Document Type: Article

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