Microbial Community Structure and Function of Soil following Ecosystem Conversion from Native Forests to Teak Plantation Forests

Soil microbial communities can form links between forest trees and functioning of forest soils, yet the impacts of converting diverse native forests to monoculture plantations on soil microbial communities are unknown. This study tested the hypothesis that conversion from a diverse native to monocul...

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Main Authors: Vidya De Gannes, Isaac Bekele, Mark N Wuddivira, Denny Dipchansingh, Sunshine DeCaires, Mattias Boman, William James Hickey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01976/full