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Spatial patterns of soil microbial activity are central to understanding greenhouse gas dynamics in wetlands.

In arid ecosystems, abiotic processes facilitate the physical and chemical degradation of plant litter to the extent that decomposition models that use climatic and litter composition variables as surrogates for microbial activity are not predictive.

Piccolo [11] postulated that hydrophobic humic components deriving from plant degradation and microbial activity are able to randomly incorporate more polar molecules and hence protect them against degradation.

Intense reducing conditions often develop in sediments during warm months, as well as enhanced phosphatase activity in the water column (Kobori and Taga 1979; Hoppe 2003) when temperature and microbial activity are higher (Lai and Lam 2008).

At low water activities, biochemical reactions and microbial activity are greatly restricted; extremes of pH have a similar effect, and many traditional processing methods are based on lowering the pH of the substrate, followed by heating or drying.

However, the experiments presented here do not indicate that the effects of microbial activity are rapid enough to deplete PS from solution on the time scales of plant PS exudation and FePS uptake, even if no lag phase occurs.

Microbial activity was measured as basal respiration.

Microbial activity was increased in M. scabrinodis mounds only.

A reliable and sensitive proxy for microbial activity is activity of extracellular enzymes (EEA).

Soil microbial activity was inhibited or not with sodium azide (NaN3).

Similarly, under denitrifying conditions, microbial activity was located at the plume's fringes.