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School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
15N; assimilation; chloroform fumigation; heterotrophic microbes; immobilization; nitrogen availability; nitrogen cycling; organic matter decomposition; streams
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The Relative Importance Of Exogenous And Substrate-Derived Nitrogen For Microbial Growth During Leaf Decomposition, B. M. Cheever, J. R. Webster, E. E. Bilger, S. A. Thomas
The Relative Importance Of Exogenous And Substrate-Derived Nitrogen For Microbial Growth During Leaf Decomposition, B. M. Cheever, J. R. Webster, E. E. Bilger, S. A. Thomas
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
Heterotrophic microbes colonizing detritus obtain nitrogen (N) for growth by assimilating N from their substrate or immobilizing exogenous inorganic N. Microbial use of these two pools has different implications for N cycling and organic matter decomposition in the face of the global increase in biologically available N. We used sugar maple leaves labeled with 15N to differentiate between microbial N that had been assimilated from the leaf substrate (enriched with 15N) or immobilized from the water (natural abundance 15N:14N) in five Appalachian streams ranging in ambient NO3-N concentrations from about 5 to 900 …