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AgronomyThe variety of soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC), soil microbial biomass nitrogen (SMBN) content, and the flux turnover rate of SMBC and SMBN for 0–10 cm and 10–20 cm layers in a paddy field in southern China with different tillage practices were ...
Haiming Tang +6 more
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Frontiers in Environmental ScienceIntroductionUnderstanding the season-dependent effects of land-use change and global change drivers on soil microbial biomass is critical for accurately estimating grassland carbon (C) sequestration, sustaining ecosystem services, and enhancing landscape
Chengliang Wang +8 more
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Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 2011 A mesocosm study was conducted in order to evaluate the effects of short-term rainfall and temperature variation on soil microbial biomass and bacteria to fungi ratio. In addition, the relation between the decomposition process of two organic fertilizers,
Mignon S. SANDOR +3 more
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Methods for elucidating microbial biomass
IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267), 2016 <p>The microbial biomass of soil is defined as the part of the organic matter in the soil that constitutes living organisms smaller than the 5-10 mm<sup>3. </sup>It is generally expressed in the milligrams of carbon per kilogram of soil or micrograms of carbons per gram of dry weight of soil. Typical biomass carbon ranges from 1 to 5%
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Microbial Degradation of Lignocellulosic Biomass [PDF]
, 2013 The search for renewable sources of energy requires a worldwide effort in order to decrease the harmful effects of global climate change, as well as to satisfy the future energy demands. In this context, biofuels are emerging as a new source of energy derived from biomass.
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Microbial volatile fingerprints: potential use for soil/water diagnostics and correlation with traditional microbial parameters [PDF]
, 2007 This project used an electronic nose (E-nose) system composed of an array of 14 nonspecific conducting polymer sensors for soil and water diagnostics, based on qualitative microbial volatile production patterns. It tested the feasibility of using soil
Bastos, Ana Catarina, Bastos , A. C.
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Microbial diversity and the “lower-limit” problem of biodiversity [PDF]
, 2013 Science is now studying biodiversity on a massive scale. These studies are occurring not just at the scale of larger plants and animals, but also at the scale of minute entities such as bacteria and viruses. This expansion has led to the development of a
Malaterre, Christophe
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Formation of microbial biomass during the decomposition of C-14 labelled ryegrass in soil
, 1981 Ryegrass uniformly labelled with 14C was incubated aerobically at 25°C for 62 days in two contrasting soils, a near‐neutral (pH 6.8) palcudalf from England and a strongly acid (pH 3.6) haplorthox from Brazil.
Cerri, C. C., Jenkinson, D. S.
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Biological processing of organics: the fate of leaf litter in the natural environment
, 2003 This paper addresses litter decomposition in the terrestrial catchment of a wetland, and the consequent release of phosphorus (P). Microbial activity and P dynamics were monitored before and after the onset of winter rain along a transect from the bed of
McComb, A.J. +3 more
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GeodermaSoil microorganisms are key to the flow of carbon through soils. As the most carbon-rich soils, Mollisols are very sensitive to disturbance and more prone to be carbon sources than carbon sinks. To understand how the microbial physiology [i.e., microbial
Peng Chen +9 more
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