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SUBMITTER: Dorr N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2820952 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied and environmental microbiology 20091228 4
Conversion of forests to farmland permanently lowers atmospheric methane consumption due to unresolved reasons. Alphaproteobacterial methanotrophs were predominant in forested soils and gammaproteobacterial species were predominant in farmland soils of subtropical ferralsols in Brazil. The capability of atmospheric methane consumption was obliterated in farmland soils, suggesting a shift from oligotrophic to copiotrophic species. ...[more]