Cultivating uncultured bacteria from northern wetlands: knowledge gained and remaining gaps

SN Dedysh - Frontiers in microbiology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Northern wetlands play a key role in the global carbon budget, particularly in the budgets of
the greenhouse gas methane. These ecosystems also determine the hydrology of northern …

Effects of short‐and long‐term water‐level drawdown on the populations and activity of aerobic decomposers in a boreal peatland

K Jaatinen, H Fritze, J Laine, R Laiho - Global Change Biology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We analysed the response of microbial communities, characterized by phospholipid fatty
acids (PLFAs), to changing hydrological conditions at sites with different nutrient levels in a …

Linking species richness, biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil systems

DC Coleman, WB Whitman - Pedobiologia, 2005 - Elsevier
Soils are the central organizing entities in terrestrial ecosystems and possess extremely
diverse prokaryotic and eukaryotic biota. They are physically and chemically complex, with …