Soil environmental conditions and microbial build-up mediate the effect of plant diversity on soil nitrifying and denitrifying enzyme activities in temperate grasslands.

Soil environmental conditions and microbial build-up mediate the effect of plant diversity on soil nitrifying and denitrifying enzyme activities in temperate grasslands.

Random reductions in plant diversity can affect ecosystem functioning, but it is still unclear which components of plant diversity (species number - namely richness, presence of particular plant functional groups, or particular combinations of these) and associated biotic and abiotic drivers explain...

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Main Authors: Xavier Le Roux, Bernhard Schmid, Franck Poly, Romain L Barnard, Pascal A Niklaus, Nadine Guillaumaud, Maike Habekost, Yvonne Oelmann, Laurent Philippot, Joana Falcao Salles, Michael Schloter, Sibylle Steinbeiss, Alexandra Weigelt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3629084?pdf=render

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