Microbial Biomass
Microbial biomass behaviour in Algerian steppe soils
... the microbial biomass living in these soils ...soil microbial biomass, which is still relatively low. The microbial biomass is defined as the fraction of the living organic ...
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Microbial biomass dynamics after addition of EDTA into heavy metal contaminated soils
... Microbial biomass C. The microbial biomass C content in the control arable and grassland soils remained quite stable during the ...the microbial biomass in both soils (Figure ...
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Influence of Rice Straw Incorporation on the Microbial Biomass and Activity in Coastal Saline Soils of Bangladesh
... soil microbial properties is of great concern as this can affect nutrient cycles as well as the soil fertility ...soil microbial communities in this ...the microbial biomass and its activity ...
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Changes in soil microbial biomass with manure application in cropping systems: A meta-analysis
... soil microbial bio- mass, even though the response of microbial biomass can be highly variable depending on soil types, management practices and climate conditions (Esperschuetz et ...in ...
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Potential of the soil microbial biomass C to tolerate and degrade persistent organic pollutants
... altered microbial activities as suggested by Brookes (1995) and Giller et ...that microbial biomass in soils contaminated with heavy metals was usually lower in comparison with control soils, and ...
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A microbial biomass and respiration of soil, peat and decomposing plant litter in a raised mire
... of biomass was greatest in the lagg fen and least in the hill slope soil (Figure ...different microbial biomass contents between any of the soils (Figure ...the microbial biomass in the ...
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Soil microbial biomass and function are altered by 12 years of crop rotation
... soil microbial biomass and function. We measured soil microbial catabolic potential, C and N mineralization, extracellular enzyme activities, and microbial biomass three times over one ...
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Microbial biomass C determined using CaCl2 and K2SO4 as extraction reagents
... Microbial biomass-C [MBC] was determined by re-hydration [RHD] technique using two very similar salt solutions in dissociation potency (0.5 mol/l K 2 SO 4 [MBC-K] and 0.01 mol/l CaCl 2 [MBC-Ca]) in forest, ...
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Effects of liming on the microbial biomass and its activities in soils long term contaminated by toxic elements
... soil microbial activities (Stenberg et ...for microbial biomass. From the long-term view the microbial properties seemed not to be greatly affected by CaO, although the short-term incubation ...
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Understory vegetation plays the key role in sustaining soil microbial biomass and extracellular enzyme activities
... soil microbial biomass or differences in the actual activities (Trasar-Cepeda et ...of microbial ecology and the theory of eco- logical stoichiometry (Stone et ...how microbial nutrient ...
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Microbial biomass and activity in the vicinity of a mussel bed built up by the blue mussel Mytilus edulis
... total microbial biomass and activity in the vicinity of a mussel ...the microbial community to the pulses of organic matter availability, which favors the occurrence of r-selected ...
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Effect of land management without farmyard manure application on the amount and the ectivity of soil microbial biomass
... The decisive part of nitrogen available for plants comes from microbial biomass mineralisation (Novák 1993). The turnover of nitrogen from dead microbial cells is approx- imately 5 times quicker than ...
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Tillage System Comparison in Organic Farming: Effects on N Mineralization, Soil Microbial Biomass, and Yield
... Abstract: The nitrogen supply can be a yield-limiting factor in organic farming, especially when reduced tillage is applied. An organic field experiment was conducted from 2007 to 2013 to analyse the potential of the ...
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Long Term Exclusion of Grazing Increases Soil Microbial Biomass but Not Diversity in a Temperate Grassland
... Soil microbial biomass was measured using fumigation method and bacterial community structure and diversity were assessed using methods of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and clone ...higher ...
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Long-term Impacts of Silvicultural Treatments on Soil Microbial Biomass, Community Composition, and N Mineralization
... layer and mineral soil, moisture content was lowest and DOC highest in the CHNO plots (Table 1). Additionally, humus layer pH was also highest in the CHNO plots (Table 1). Changes in humus layer and mineral soil ...
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Effect of management practices on soil organic matter, microbial biomass and aggregate stability of Orthic Luvisol
... Therefore, microbial biomass carbon (MBC), particulate organic matter (POM) and wet aggregate stability (WAS), also referred to as the total amount of water-stable aggregates, have often been studied to ...
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Microbial biomass and soil health as influenced by INM practices in rice - cotton cropping system
... the microbial biomass and soil health as influenced by INM practices in rice - cotton cropping system under tail end area of Cauvery Deltaic Zone of Tamil Nadu ...
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Effects of zeolite amendment on microbial biomass and respiratory activity in heavy metal contaminated soils
... some microbial characteristics [Kremikovtzi (K1, K2) in Bulgaria and Příbram (P1, P2) in the Czech ...of microbial biomass showed a tendency to decrease in Kremikovtzi soils whereas in Příbram soils ...
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Effect of Leaf Litter Treatment on Soil Microbial Biomass
... Soil microbial biomass plays a key role in the decomposition of complex or- ganic matter of plant ...soil microbial biomass ...of microbial biomass affects the quantity of plant ...
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Microbial Biomass Responses to Soil Drying-Rewetting and Phosphorus Leaching
... in microbial biomass phosphorus as a result of soil drying is the most likely reason that the quantities of DRP in leachates increased significantly relative to the control, concurrent with the drying ...
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