TY - T1 - Implications of wetland degradation for the potential denitrifying activity and bacterial populations with nirS genes as found in a succession in Qinghai Tibet plateau, China SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/307942 T3 - A1 - Gu Yunfu; Wang, Yingyan; Xiang, Quanju; Yu, Xiumei; Zhao, Ke; Zhang, Xiaoping; Lindstrom, Kristina; Hu Yufu; Liu, Songqing A2 - PB - Y1 - 2017 LA - eng AB - Alpine wetland in the Zoige Plateau has suffered from serious degradation during"the last 30 years due to global climate change and anthropogenic impact. Denitrification is a key nitrogen removal process which can be performed by different microorganisms, including bacteria harboring ttirS-genes. In this study, a degradation succession was used to study the effect on potential denitrification activity (PDA) and on bacterial communities harboring nirS genes. Based on the determination of the PDA,... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - Wetland degradation; Potential denitrifying activity; NirS denitrifying bacterial community; T-RFLP qPCR; NITRITE REDUCTASE GENES; DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSES; INVESTIGATE DIVERSITY; FUNCTIONAL MARKERS; DENITRIFICATION; SOIL; COMMUNITIES; NITROGEN; ZONE; SEDIMENTS; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology; 415 Other agricultural sciences N1 - PP - ER -