Soil bacterial community composition altered by increased nutrient availability in Arctic tundra soils

The pool of soil organic carbon (SOC) in the Arctic is disproportionally large compared to those in other biomes. This large quantity of SOC accumulated over millennia due to slow rates of decomposition relative to net primary productivity. Decomposition is constrained by low temperatures and nutrie...

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Main Authors: Akihiro eKoyama, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Rodney T. Simpson, John C. Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00516/full