Nutrient addition dramatically accelerates microbial community succession.

The ecological mechanisms driving community succession are widely debated, particularly for microorganisms. While successional soil microbial communities are known to undergo predictable changes in structure concomitant with shifts in a variety of edaphic properties, the causal mechanisms underlying...

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Main Authors: Joseph E Knelman, Steven K Schmidt, Ryan C Lynch, John L Darcy, Sarah C Castle, Cory C Cleveland, Diana R Nemergut
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4106831?pdf=render