Liming Alters the Soil Microbial Community and Extracellular Enzymatic Activities in Temperate Coniferous Forests

Temperate Coniferous Forests

Fire Alters Vegetation and Soil Microbial Community in Alpine Meadow

Grassland fire, as an important ecological factor, is quite influential in determining the structural and functional stability of ecosystem. In this work, the fire-induced changes on the vegetation and soil microbial community were studied in alpine meadow. Microbial community composition was assessed by phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis, and functional diversity was determined by Biolog ...

Volatile Organochlorine Compounds Emitted by Temperate Coniferous Forests

correspondence should be addressed) are with the Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy Sciences Czech Republic, Videnska 1083, 14220 Prague, Czech Republic (phone: +420-241062484; fax: +420-241062150; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]). J. Doležalová and Z. Wimmer are with the Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Technická 5, 16628 Prague, Czech Republic (e-mail: dolja...

Invariant community structure of soil bacteria in subtropical coniferous and broadleaved forests.

Soil bacteria may be influenced by vegetation and play important roles in global carbon efflux and nutrient cycling under global changes. Coniferous and broadleaved forests are two phyletically distinct vegetation types. Soil microbial communities in these forests have been extensively investigated but few studies have presented comparable data regarding the characteristics of bacterial communi...

Altitudinal variation in soil organic carbon stock in coniferous subtropical and broadleaf temperate forests in Garhwal Himalaya

BACKGROUND The Himalayan zones, with dense forest vegetation, cover a fifth part of India and store a third part of the country reserves of soil organic carbon (SOC). However, the details of altitudinal distribution of these carbon stocks, which are vulnerable to forest management and climate change impacts, are not well known. RESULTS This article reports the results of measuring the stocks ...