Use of earthworm casts to validate FT-IR spectroscopy as a 'sentinel' technology for high-throughput monitoring of global changes in microbial ecology

Pedobiologia

Volumn 47, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 440-446

  Scullion, John ^a   Elliott, Geoff N ^a   Huang, Wei E ^a   Goodacre, Roy ^a   Worgan, Hilary ^a   Darby, Robert ^a   Bailey, Mark J ^b   Gwynn Jones, Dylan ^a   Griffith, Gareth W ^a   Winson, Michael K ^a   Williams, Peter A ^c   Clegg, Christopher ^d   Draper, John ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earthworms; FT IR; Metabolic fingerprinting; Micro organisms

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; WORM CAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 9144240427     PISSN: 00314056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0031-4056-00210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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