Small but active - pool size does not matter for carbon incorporation in below-ground food webs

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 479-489

  Pausch, Johanna ^a   Kramer, Susanne ^b   Scharroba, Anika ^c   Scheunemann, Nicole ^a   Butenschoen, Olaf ^a   Kandeler, Ellen ^b   Marhan, Sven ^b   Riederer, Michael ^d   Scheu, Stefan ^a   Kuzyakov, Yakov ^a   Ruess, Liliane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Carbon pools and fluxes; Fungi; Macrofauna; Mesofauna; Nematodes; Plant soil (below ground) interactions; Pulse labelling; Root derived C; Stable isotope probing of fatty acids

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; BIOMARKER; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMPLEXITY; DECOMPOSITION; FOOD WEB; FUNGUS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAIZE; NEMATODE; PHOSPHOLIPID; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STABLE ISOTOPE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NEMATODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84965151657     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12512     Document Type: Article

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