Responses of soil microbial communities to prescribed burning in two paired vegetation sites in southern China

Ecological Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 669-677

  Sun, Yuxin ^a,b,c   Wu, Jianping ^a,c   Shao, Yuanhu ^a   Zhou, Lixia ^a   Mai, Bixian ^b   Lin, Yongbiao ^a   Fu, Shenglei ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Forest plantation; Prescribed burning; Soil microbial community; Southern China

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; FUNGUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANTATION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CHINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 85027918748     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-011-0827-2     Document Type: Article

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