Environmental controls on denitrifying communities and denitrification rates: insights from molecular methods

MD Wallenstein, DD Myrold, M Firestone… - Ecological …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of molecular techniques has improved our understanding of the microbial
communities responsible for denitrification and is beginning to address their role in …

Nitrogen turnover in soil and global change

J Ollivier, S Töwe, A Bannert, B Hai… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen management in soils has been considered as key to the sustainable use of
terrestrial ecosystems and a protection of major ecosystem services. However, the …

Crop residue influence on denitrification, N2O emissions and denitrifier community abundance in soil

MN Miller, BJ Zebarth, CE Dandie, DL Burton… - Soil Biology and …, 2008 - Elsevier
Bacterial denitrification plays an important role in the global nitrogen cycle and is a principal
contributor of nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere. The influence of simple (glucose) and …

Soil environmental conditions rather than denitrifier abundance and diversity drive potential denitrification after changes in land uses

E Attard, S Recous, A Chabbi… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use practices aiming at increasing agro‐ecosystem sustainability, eg no‐till systems
and use of temporary grasslands, have been developed in crop** areas, but their …

Disentangling the rhizosphere effect on nitrate reducers and denitrifiers: insight into the role of root exudates

S Henry, S Texier, S Hallet, D Bru… - Environmental …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
To determine to which extent root‐derived carbon contributes to the effects of plants on
nitrate reducers and denitrifiers, four solutions containing different proportions of sugar …

Abundance, diversity and functional gene expression of denitrifier communities in adjacent riparian and agricultural zones

CE Dandie, S Wertz, CL Leclair, C Goyer… - FEMS microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Lands under riparian and agricultural management differ in soil properties, water content,
plant species and nutrient content and are therefore expected to influence denitrifier …

Influence of temperature on the composition and activity of denitrifying soil communities

G Braker, J Schwarz, R Conrad - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The impacts of temperature on the activity and on the size as well as on the community
composition of denitrifiers in an agricultural soil were studied in a controlled laboratory …

Testing the functional significance of microbial composition in natural communities

HE Reed, JBH Martiny - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Ecologists have long studied the relationship between biotic composition and ecosystem
functioning in larger organisms; however, only recently has this relationship been …

Impact of Plant Functional Group, Plant Species, and Sampling Time on the Composition of nirK-Type Denitrifier Communities in Soil

C Bremer, G Braker, D Matthies, A Reuter… - Applied and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
We studied the influence of eight nonleguminous grassland plant species belonging to two
functional groups (grasses and forbs) on the composition of soil denitrifier communities in …

Changes in bacterial denitrifier community abundance over time in an agricultural field and their relationship with denitrification activity

CE Dandie, DL Burton, BJ Zebarth… - Applied and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
This study measured total bacterial and denitrifier community abundances over time in an
agricultural soil cropped to potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) by using quantitative PCR …