The effectiveness of sepiolite as a soil amendment to restore microbial functionality within mine soil highly polluted with Cd, Zn and Pb was evaluated in this study.
Correlations between measures of microbial functionality (activity, richness, and diversity) and turbidity, total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN) were observed in horizontal-flow systems but less so in vertical-flow systems.
We anticipate that the information provided here on different aspects of MES ranging from reactor and process parameters to chemical, electrochemical, and microbial functionality indicators will assist researchers in data presentation and ease data interpretation.
Remigi P, Faye A, Kane A, Deruaz M, Thioulouse J, Cissoko M, et al. The exotic legume tree species Acacia holosericea alters microbial soil functionalities and the structure of the arbuscular mycorrhizal community.
Maintaining microbial cell functionality and integrity is required to pass on random mutations to the next generation.
Four papers were dedicated to the ecological drivers that shape microbial communities and functionalities.
Our results indicate that despite differences in scale, geographic location and source waters, the shallow open-water wetland design can select for a rapid convergence of microbial structure and functionality associated with the self-colonizing benthic biomat.
Overall our study provided a mechanistic framework showing how microbial communities, soil functionality, and abiotic properties being antagonistic to soil pathogens are linked and interactively shape the suppressive potential of soils at continental scale.
A particularly relevant class of organic pollutants in agriculture is antibiotics, which can accumulate in significant amounts [124], with detrimental effects on soil microbial diversity and functionality.
Second, microbial physiology and functionality are strongly correlated with their forms - for instance, bacterial antibiotic resistance is distinct when cells are in planktonic forms and biofilm forms [57],[57].
