Does Community Composition or Environmental Variability Control Extracellular Enzyme Activity in Soil?
A Spatial Analysis in a Complex Forested Landscape. –> Start | View At a Glance | Author Index 97-5 Does Community Composition or Environmental Variability Control Extracellular Enzyme Activity in Soil? A Spatial Analysis in a Complex Forested Landscape. Monday, November 2, 2009: 11:15 AM Convention Center, Room 406, Fourth Floor Christopher Blackwood1, Kurt Smemo2, Larry Feinstein1, Oscar Valverde-Barrantes1 and Mark Kershner1, (1)Biological Sciences, Kent State Univ., Kent, OH (2)The Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, OH The correspondence between taxonomic composition and the suite of functional traits expressed in a community is an important issue facing all of ecology as we try to predict the outcomes of species loss and habitat change. For soil microorganisms, extracellular enzymes represent an investment expected to increase substrate and nutrient availability. Aggregated across the microbial community, production of extracellular enzymes has ecosystem-level consequences for soil orga
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