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Bangladesh Journal of Pharmacology, 2018 New bioactive natural products, the phenolic composition and the biological activities of organic extracts from the needles of the Algerian Pinus coulteri were investigated.
Soumia Merah +6 more
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Land, 2022 Elevated runoff export and declines in soil microbial biomass and enzyme activity following forest conversion are known to reduce soil inorganic nitrogen (N) but their relative importance remains poorly understood.
Chao Xu +9 more
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Microbial biomass in paddy soil [PDF]
Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 1984 The authors investigated the role of microorganisms in paddy soil ecosystems and the influence of fertilizer and manure applications on the soil microbial biomass in paddy soils based on direct count using a fluorescence microscope. The results are summarized as follows.
Akira Hasebe +2 more
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Tree species composition influences enzyme activities and microbial biomass in the rhizosphere: a rhizobox approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Monoculture causes nutrient losses and leads to declines in soil fertility and biomass production over successive cultivation. The rhizosphere, a zone of usually high microbial activities and clearly distinct from bulk soil, is defined as the volume of ...
Shengzuo Fang +4 more
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Soil Microbial Biomass Across a Gradient of Preserved Native Cerrado
Floresta e Ambiente, 2018 The different physiognomies and soil conditions across the Cerrado gradient may influence soil microbial biomass. The present study evaluated the soil microbial biomass and enzyme activity across a preserved Cerrado gradient and correlated these with ...
Nilza Silva Carvalho +4 more
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Biobased Materials from Microbial Biomass and Its Derivatives [PDF]
Materials, 2020 There is a strong public concern about plastic waste, which promotes the development of new biobased materials. The benefit of using microbial biomass for new developments is that it is a completely renewable source of polymers, which is not limited to climate conditions or may cause deforestation, as biopolymers come from vegetal biomass.
Celeste Cottet +5 more
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HeliyonSugarcane leaf waste, a byproduct of the growing global sugar industry, challenges agricultural waste management. This study explores its potential for methane production via anaerobic digestion. A microbial pre-hydrolysis, using lignocellulose-degrading
Napapat Sitthikitpanya +4 more
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Agronomy, 2018 Soil microbial properties are frequently used as indicators of soil fertility. However, the linkage of these properties with crop biomass is poorly documented especially in biochar amended soil with high carbon:nitrogen (C:N).
Muhammad Farid Azlan Halmi +3 more
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Change in soil microbial biomass along a rural-urban gradient in Varanasi (U.P., India)
Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes, 2018 Soil microbial biomass has been used as an early indicator of change in soil properties resulting from urbanization. We analyzed the effect of urbanization along a rural–urban gradient on soil microbial biomass and physico-chemical properties of the soil.
Pradeep Kumar Rai +2 more
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The changes in microbial biomass C and N in long-term field experiments
Plant, Soil and Environment, 2008 Microbial biomass nitrogen and carbon were studied in long-term field experiments with continuous cultivation of silage maize and with crop rotation. A positive effect of organic fertilizers on the microbial biomass nitrogen and the carbon content in ...
J. Černý +3 more
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