Invasive plants rapidly reshape soil properties in a grassland ecosystem

mSystems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Gibbons, Sean M ^a,b,c,d   Lekberg, Ylva ^c,e   Mummey, Daniel L ^c   Sangwan, Naseer ^b   Ramsey, Philip W ^c   Gilbert, Jack A ^a,b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MPG Ranch   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f University of Chicago   (United States)

^g MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S RNA; Copiotroph; Metagenomics; Oligotroph; Plant invasions; Plantmicrobe interactions; Soil bacteria; Soil fungi; Soil microbiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034833781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23795077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00178-16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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