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Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in Douglas-fir residue decayed byFomitopsis pinicola

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Colonizing populations of nitrogen-fixing bacteria were measured in various decay stages of Douglas-fir logs infested withFomitopsis pinicola. Numbers of nitrogen-fixers and N-fixation rates in the wood increased as decay progressed. These increase in bacterial populations and N-fixing activity appeared related to increases in wood moisture content. Bacteria resemblingClostridium pasteurianum, Clostridium butyricum, andKlebsiella/Enterobacter spp. were isolated from the various wood decay stages.

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  1. Montana Department of State Lands, 59620, Helena, Montana

    A. E. Harvey (Respectively, former research assistant, currently Soil Scientist)

  2. Professor of Forest Soils, Department of Forestry, Michigan Technological University, 49931, Houghton, Michigan

    A. E. Harvey (Respectively, former research assistant, currently Soil Scientist)

  3. Forest Service, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Forest Products Laboratory, Mycologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 53705, Madison, Wisconsin

    A. E. Harvey (Respectively, former research assistant, currently Soil Scientist)

  4. Plant Pathologist, located at Intermountain Station's Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 83843, Moscow, Idaho

    A. E. Harvey (Respectively, former research assistant, currently Soil Scientist)

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Spano, S.D., Jurgensen, M.F., Larsen, M.J. et al. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in Douglas-fir residue decayed byFomitopsis pinicola . Plant Soil 68, 117–123 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02374731

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