Sentence examples for microbial community function from inspiring English sources

The results presented provide useful insight into the spatial dynamics of microbial community function in constructed wetlands.

However, further studies will be needed to better understand how these changes in microbial community structure might actually impact soil microbial community function.

The main objective of this study was to investigate the use of the co-composting time extract medium to evaluate the abundance and to assess the microbial community function in sewage sludge/date palm co-composting.

Soil and root samples were collected at various times throughout 2 years from experimental plots to estimate microbial community function by quantifying activity of extracellular enzymes on 10 substrates.

No significant alteration to the microbial community function (assessed via community-level physiological profiling, CLPP) or structure (using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis, DGGE) was observed following the initial 28 day exposure.

This could further influence the community structure of aquatic ecosystems if the strain generates direct or indirect effects on microbes, grazers or higher trophic levels (invertebrate and vertebrate), ultimately influencing the probability of algae blooms or altered microbial community function (Flynn et al. 2013).

The enzymes analyzed responded to the addition of vermicompost suggesting that the presence of vermicompost strongly affected microbial community functioning.

Negative values indicate that inoculation reduces the performance of the microbial community whereas positive values indicate an enhancement of microbial community functioning.

Here we use the activity of enzymes as proxy of microbial community functioning and also of the physiological capabilities of microbial communities [28].

To characterize soil microbial community functions, two soil enzyme activities relating the available nitrogen to plant performance (protease and L-asparaginase) were measured by adding different substrates.

Here we test whether indirect earthworm effects affect microbial community functioning in the substrate, as when earthworms are present (i. e., direct effects).