Invasion of the Brazilian campo rupestre by the exotic grass Melinis minutiflora is driven by the high soil N availability and changes in the N cycle

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 577, Issue , 2017, Pages 202-211

  Ribeiro, Pâmella C D ^a   Menendez, Esther ^c   da Silva, Danielle L ^a   Bonieck, Douglas ^a   Ramírez Bahena, Martha Helena ^b   Resende Stoianoff, Maria Aparecida ^a   Peix, Alvaro ^b   Velázquez, Encarna ^c   Mateos, Pedro F ^c   Scotti, Maria Rita ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ammonia monooxygenase (amoA); Ammonium; Biological nitrogen fixation; Burkholderia nodosa; Mimosa pogocephala; Nitrate

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BIODIVERSITY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; RESTORATION; SOILS;

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; AMMONIUM; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATIONS; BURKHOLDERIA; MIMOSA POGOCEPHALA;

BACTERIA;

AMMONIA; CARBON; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVASIVENESS; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NITROGEN; SURVIVAL;

AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL NITROGEN FIXATION; BIOMASS; BIOME; BRAZIL; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA NODOSA; CARBON NITROGEN RATIO; MELINIS; MELINIS MINUTIFLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MIMOSA; MIMOSA POGOCEPHALA; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT INFERTILITY; PLANT LEAF; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES INVASION; VEGETATION;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; MELINIS MINUTIFLORA; MIMOSA;

EID: 84995950923     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.162     Document Type: Article

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