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"The right soil community is key to the success of your plants," Wubs says.
A major problem facing ecologists is obtaining a complete picture of the highly complex soil community.
Soils were then stored at -20°C and extraction of soil community DNA was performed within 2 weeks.
DNA of the soil community was extracted by use of the PowerSoil® DNA Extraction kit (MoBio Industries, Carlsbad, CA, USA).
We investigated how decomposition was affected by interactions between litter quality and the composition of the soil community.
In brief, soil community DNA was extracted by using the PowerSoil® Soil DNA Isolation kit (MoBio Industries, Carlsbad, CA, USA) following the manufacturer's instructions.
Diversity index and richness estimator values generated by DOTUR corroborated the great bacterial species diversity and richness that would be expected in a soil community (Table 3).
This processing includes the decomposition of dead organic matter by microbes as well as the consumption and production rates in the soil community food web [11 13].
We manipulated the soil community composition using different mesh sizes to constrain access of specific soil fauna to the litter on the basis of body size.
Whether litter quality was a significant determinant of litter decomposition rate was dependent on both the soil community composition and length of field exposure.
After environmental degradation, restoration and reclamation efforts can be hampered by poor physio-chemical soil characteristics and reduced soil community complexity.
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