Impacts of the alien trees Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle and Robinia pseudoacacia L. on soil nutrients and microbial communities

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 96, Issue , 2016, Pages 65-73

  Medina Villar, S ^a   Rodriguez Echeverria S ^b   Lorenzo, P ^b   Alonso, A ^a   Perez Corona E ^c   Castro Diez P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacterial community; DGGE; Exotic plants; Nitrate; Nitrogen; Phosphomonoesterase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; FORESTRY; MINERALOGY; NITRATES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; SOILS;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; DGGE; EXOTIC PLANTS; GREENHOUSE EXPERIMENTS; NUTRIENT MINERALIZATION; PHOSPHOMONOESTERASE; ROBINIA PSEUDO-ACACIA; SOIL BACTERIAL COMMUNITY;

SOIL TESTING;

BACTERIUM; ENZYME; FIELD SURVEY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROPERTY;

SPAIN;

AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POPULUS ALBA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 84957895102     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.01.015     Document Type: Article

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