Our results suggest woody debris breakdown in desert riverine ecosystems is primarily a microbial process with rates determined by landscape position, local weather, and especially the regional climate through its effect on the flow regime.
She's found that an entire adult hog can be left skeletonized within three weeks -- being devoured by crabs, shrimp and sea worms -- as well as breaking down through a microbial process.
Genetic exchange between natural microbial communities appears to be a common phenomenon, mediated by a number of microbial processes (conjugation, transformation, and transduction).
Towards a global objective to produce chemical derivatives by microbial processes, this work dealt with a metabolic engineering of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae for glycerol production.
This is followed by a fraction that is continuously produced and then released at a constant rate overtime by on-going microbial processes within the upper soil layers.
Wieder, W. R., Bonan, G. B. & Allison, S. D. Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes.
In unenriched treatments, DIN fluxes were negative, indicating that inorganic nitrogen was being removed, likely by sediment microbial processes.
Since patterns of GEP mirrored above-ground plant and algal biomass, we expected daily flux rates of DIN to reflect uptake by plants [78], release by grazers [79], and removal by sediment microbial processes [41].
Gross ecosystem production (oxygen evolution) correlated positively with above-ground plant biomass, whereas inorganic nutrient fluxes were unrelated to plant or grazer biomasses, suggesting dominance by sediment microbial processes.
