Microbial community activity (substrate utilization rate) and metabolic richness (number of carbon sources utilize) decreased dramatically with increasing distance along the flow path for most systems.
Although recent studies have begun to elucidate how airway microbial community structure relates to lung disease in cystic fibrosis (CF), microbial community activity and the host's response to changes in this activity are poorly understood.
Therefore, denitrification potential is likely the best way to measure the integrated effect of our treatments, different levels of plant FD, on the microbial community activity.
Changes in microbial population composition and structure are mainly according to the environmental conditions (pH, temperature, Eh, substrates, and inhibitors) which evolve also according to the microbial community activity.
Hu, Y. et al. Variability in soil microbial community and activity between coastal and riparian wetlands in the Yangtze River estuary – Potential impacts on carbon sequestration.
Earthworms, because they change soil physical and chemical properties, are efficient engineers that act on soil microbial community and activity.
Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to soil fauna – e.g., the direct roles they play in SOM cycling, and indirect roles through changing microbial community composition, activity, and function to influence soil C and N dynamics.
Various microbial consortia were applied successfully in commercial bioleaching heaps around the world, and microbial community and activity were adapted related to the local climatic conditions, ore characteristics and engineering configuration.
Thus, an incubation experiment was designed to study how the addition of pig slurry (PS), its manure (M) and its biochar (BC) affect soil microbial community and activity in three soils differing in SOM content (Regosol, Luvisol and Kastanozem).
