It should be kept in mind that this kind of test will include the response of the entire microbial community at the selected site and not only some selected isolates.
The results showed that decomposition rates were the same for all combinations of amendments and sites, meaning that both sites had microbial communities equally capable or adapted to decompose plant substrates it had not previously encountered, despite marked differences in soil microbial communities between sites and the chemistry of the two litter types.
Bowers RM, Lauber CL, Wiedinmyer C, Hamady M, Hallar AG, Fall R, et al. Characterization of airborne microbial communities at a high-elevation site and their potential to act as atmospheric ice nuclei.
Table 2 depicts the microbial spectrum and the site of detection of the infectious organism.
The inland site generally had greater microbial biomass and AM fungi than the coastal site, but sites had similar F : B ratios except at senescence when coastal F : B ratios nearly doubled.
Only by examining soil microbial community composition shifts across sites and down the soil column simultaneously were we able to tease apart the impact of these correlates environmental variables.
In addition, the geochemical conditions of the two analyzed sites and the microbial metabolism correlated (Edwards et al. 2006).
This network revealed strong niche specialization, with most microbial associations occurring within body sites and a number of accompanying inter-body site relationships.
For example, researchers studying the human microbiome are interested in how microbial composition changes across body sites and through time (HMP Consortium et al., 2012).
Chotte, J. L., Ladd, J. N. & Amato, M. Sites of microbial assimilation, and turnover of soluble and particulate 14C-labelled substrates decomposing in a clay soil.
