Wildfire impact: Natural experiment reveals differential short-term changes in soil microbial communities

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 109, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-13

  Prendergast Miller, Miranda T ^a   de Menezes, Alexandre B ^a   Macdonald, Lynne M ^a   Toscas, Peter ^a   Bissett, Andrew ^a   Baker, Geoff ^a   Farrell, Mark ^a   Richardson, Alan E ^a   Wark, Tim ^a   Thrall, Peter H ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bacteria; Environmental disturbance; Eucalypt; Fire adapted ecosystem; Fungi

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FUNGI; LAKES; LAND USE; MICROORGANISMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOILS;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; EUCALYPT; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; SOIL BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; VEGETATION COMPOSITION;

FIRES;

BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WILDFIRE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; FUNGI; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 85011899111     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.01.027     Document Type: Article

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