We evaluated how increasing N inputs affect soil C accumulation, microbial respiration, microbial biomass and composition in the field.
Results indicated that earthworm effect and its interaction with MSS were important factors for soil microbial biomass, community composition and performance and that earthworm effects should decrease in MSS-treated soils.
Our study is focused on the effects of long-term cultivation of hybrid sorrel on basal soil respiration, specific microbial respiration, microbial biomass carbon, the composition of the cultivable soil fungal community, and the composition of soil meso- and macrofauna communities.
In contrast, limited information was available on the effects of restoration projects on the soil microbial biomass and community composition.
It strongly influences boreal forest structure and function, and alters microbial biomass and species composition e.g. by significantly reducing the abundance of decomposing fungi.
Chloroform fumigation-extraction (CFE) method and phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis were used to characterize soil microbial biomass and community composition.
To better understand the wetland restoration, differences in soil microbial biomass and community composition between restored tidal wetlands and unrestored wetlands under the disturbance of petroleum exploitation activities or tidal intrusion were assessed.
Predicted effects of ethanol or acetate addition on uranium concentration and speciation, major ion geochemistry, mineralogy, microbial biomass and community composition were in qualitative agreement with experimental observations although the available data precluded rigorous model testing.
We predicted that carbon would be the primary control on both microbial biomass and community composition, and that deeper, low-carbon soils would be more similar to low-carbon agricultural soils than to high carbon remnant prairie soils.
