Overall this suggests that controls on methanol exchange are strongly site-specific and/or that factors not accounted for, such as soil type and microbial activity, play a substantial, possibly interactive, role in governing the ecosystem-atmosphere methanol exchange.
Algal and microbial activity played a major role in micritization of skeletal grains of beach rocks.
Microbial activity plays a large role in carbon storage, greenhouse gas release, and the transport of toxic metals.
doi 10.1093/aob/mct249 Microbial activity plays a critical role in acquisition of iron (Fe) by plants from soils in which it is deficient, but the mechanisms underlying this process remain largely unknown.
The observed difference in H+ activities and metal concentrations in soil porewater between the rooted and nonrooted S2 treatments corresponds to a similar difference in SO42– concentrations, suggesting that root activities play an important role for microbial S oxidation.
Further studies should show whether microbial activity actually played a role in the formation of some zinc and other ore deposits, says Banfield.
Clark and Paul (1970), Mulongoy and Bedoret (1989) and Muscolo et al. (1999) have also reported that microbial population and their activity play a significant role in HA synthesis and also exhibit positive correlation with HA and FA content.
Diterpene phytoalexins, secondary metabolites with a low molecular mass, have anti-microbial activity and play important roles in plant defense responses [ 64, 65].
In this context, the microbial activity in soil plays an important role.
Of note for microbial infection, this caspase-3 activity plays roles in fundamental processes aside from apoptosis, most significantly in host cell proliferation and differentiation, but also in immunomodulation, signal transduction and cell migration.
