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Long term repeated prescribed burning increases evenness in the basidiomycete laccase gene pool in forest soils.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 Mar 2009
Artz Rebekka R E, Reid Eileen, Anderson Ian C, Campbell Colin D, Cairney John W G
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Repeated prescribed burning alters the biologically labile fraction of nutrients and carbon of soil organic matter (SOM). Using a long-term (30 years) repeated burning experiment where burning has been carried out at a 2- or 4-year frequency, we analysed the effect of prescribed burning on gross potential C turnover rates and phenol oxidase activity in relation to shifts in SOM composition as observed using...
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