Sugars in soil and sweets for microorganisms: review of origin, content, composition and fate

A Gunina, Y Kuzyakov - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Sugars are the most abundant organic compounds in the biosphere because they are
monomers of all polysaccharides. We summarize the results of the last 40 years on the …

Relationships between soil pH and microbial properties in a UK arable soil

JCA Pietri, PC Brookes - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2008 - Elsevier
Effects of changing pH along a natural continuous gradient of a UK silty-loam soil were
investigated. The site was a 200m soil transect of the Hoosfield acid strip (Rothamsted …

Microwave irradiation of soil for routine measurement of microbial biomass carbon

KR Islam, RR Weil - Biology and Fertility of Soils, 1998 - Springer
Microwave irradiation was evaluated as a non-toxic alternate to chloroform fumigation for
routine measurement of soil microbial biomass C. Microwave energy was applied to moist …

[PDF][PDF] Hot-water-soluble C as a simple measure of labile soil organic matter: the relationship with microbial biomass C

G Sparling, M Vojvodić-Vuković… - Soil Biology and …, 1998 - academia.edu
Many monitoring programs advocate that soil organic matter contents should be measured
to assess effects of land use on soil quality. Rates of change in the total organic pool are …

Toxicity of metal oxide (CeO2, Fe3O4, SnO2) engineered nanoparticles on soil microbial biomass and their distribution in soil

LV Antisari, S Carbone, A Gatti, G Vianello… - Soil biology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Aims of this work were to understand the effects of metal oxide (CeO2, Fe3O4, SnO2)
engineered nanoparticles (NPs) on microbial biomass and to evaluate their availability and …

Land-use change: effects on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus pools and fluxes in three adjacent ecosystems

DJ Ross, KR Tate, NA Scott, CW Feltham - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 1999 - Elsevier
Changes in land use can affect soil organic matter contents and fertility and also
atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming through soil respiration. We compared …

Substrate limitations to microbial activity in taiga forest floors

ED Vance, FS Chapin Iii - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2001 - Elsevier
A combination of laboratory and field experiments showed substantial differences in
microbial activity, substrate processing, and N cycling in forest floor samples from different …

Microbial responses to simulated tillage in cultivated and uncultivated soils

FJ Calderón, LE Jackson, KM Scow… - Soil Biology and …, 2000 - Elsevier
Tillage is known to have long-term effects on organic matter and labile pools of nutrients in
soil, but the short-term changes in microbial dynamics and activity after tillage are less well …

Relationship between SIR and FE estimates of microbial biomass C in deciduous forest soils at different pH

TH Anderson, RG Joergensen - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 1997 - Elsevier
Two methods to estimate soil microbial biomass, viz. substrate-induced respiration (SIR) and
fumigation-extraction (FE), were compared using 40 beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest soils …

Dynamics of organic phosphorus in soils under natural and agricultural ecosystems

J Magid, H Tiessen, LM Condron - Humic substances in terrestrial …, 1996 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the short and long-term dynamics of organic
phosphorus (P) in various terrestrial ecosystems and discusses the role of organic P in the …