An integrated study to analyze soil microbial community structure and metabolic potential in two forest types.

Soil microbial metabolic potential and ecosystem function have received little attention owing to difficulties in methodology. In this study, we selected natural mature forest and natural secondary forest and analyzed the soil microbial community and metabolic potential combing the high-throughput s...

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Main Authors: Yuguang Zhang, Jing Cong, Hui Lu, Caiyun Yang, Yunfeng Yang, Jizhong Zhou, Diqiang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3990527?pdf=render