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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"microbial community function"”.
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Intact soil core experiments reveal that temperature and depth influence microbial community function and impact the fate of nitrogenous fertilizer amendments
… nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA), soil microbial communities play an active role in determining the fate of nitrogenous species, thus thorough knowledge of microbial community structure and function is important to understanding ecosystem scale N-fluxes. While much work has been done to …
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Experimental litterfall manipulation effects on soil bacterial community structure and soil carbon cycling in a wet tropical forest
… of shifting detrital C inputs on belowground microbial community function, C cycling and fluxes remain largely unknown, especially in tropical forest ecosystems. To investigate how shifts in bacterial community composition resulting from differences in C availability affect organic matter …
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Experimental litterfall manipulation effects on soil bacterial community structure and soil carbon cycling in a wet tropical forest
… of shifting detrital C inputs on belowground microbial community function, C cycling and fluxes remain largely unknown, especially in tropical forest ecosystems. To investigate how shifts in bacterial community composition resulting from differences in C availability affect organic matter …
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Shaping Function Through Space: The Role of Spatial Organization in Microbial Communities
Spatial organization plays a critical role in microbial community function, influencing how cells exchange metabolites, coordinate behavior, and compete for resources. This thesis investigates the consequences of spatial structure in natural microbial systems and introduces a novel method to …
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The Relationship Between Salvinia molesta Infestation and the Microbial Ecology of Wetlands at Caddo Lake, TX, USA
… These processes are primarily driven by the microbial communities within a wetland. The establishment of non-native invasive species within wetlands has the potential to alter the once beneficial functionality of wetland microbial communities due to the sensitivity microbes have towards …
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Patterns in forest soil microbial community composition across a range of regional climates in Western Canada
Soil microbial communities can be characterized by community structure and function (community composition) across a spectrum of spatial scales, and variation in soil microbial composition has been associated with a number of environmental gradients. This study investigates the structure and …
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Assessing restoration potential in relict wetland soils: investigating the effect of wetland hydrology on soil microbial community composition and denitrification potential
Microbial communities are known to strongly influence rates of biogeochemical cycling in wetland ecosystems; specifically, they are strong determinants of rates of denitrification typically observed. Human induced land use changes have significantly reduced the acreage of wetland habitats, with dam …