Impact of fertilization on the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers at the root–soil interface of plants with different uptake strategies for nitrogen

Exploitative fast-growing plants have higher demands for nutrients compared to conservative slow-growing plants. We presume that these differences in nutrient uptake highly influence the microbial performance mainly in the rhizosphere of nutrient-poor soils. In order to investigate the influence of plants with contrasting exploitation types on microbial communities at the root–soil interface, we performed a greenhouse experiment in a N-poor,...