Sentences with phrase «soil microbial community»

Trean, by understanding the complex interactions among no - till, crop diversity, crop synergism, and the soil microbial community, one can develop cropping systems that yield more, but do not necessarily require more inputs.

The impact of failure: unsuccessful bacterial invasions steer the soil microbial community away from the invader's niche — C. A. Mallon — The ISME Journal

Bioaugmentation of chlorothalonil - contaminated soil with hydrolytically or reductively dehalogenating strain and its effect on soil microbial community — Xi - Hui Xu — Journal of Hazardous Materials

* Passive warming effect on soil microbial community and humic substance degradation in maritime Antarctic region — Dockyu Kim — Journal of Basic Microbiology

Long - term use of cover crops and no - till shift soil microbial community life strategies in agricultural soil.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi influence decomposition and the associated soil microbial community under different soil phosphorus availability — Jing Xu — Soil Biology and Biochemistry

In addition, the team also measured the amount of phosphorus that ended up in the soil microbial community.

But these puddles of decay aren't static; the researchers documented two distinct shifts in the soil microbial community within them.

This was associated with a change in the soil microbial community and an increase in the number of enchytraeid worms — these worms are the main soil fauna in peatlands that are responsible for decomposition.

The team also demonstrated that bodies decomposing on soils modify the soil microbial communities substantially, allowing detection of a decomposing human body via the soil microbial community even if a body has been moved.

Divergence of dominant factors in soil microbial communities and functions in forest ecosystems along a climatic gradient — Zhiwei Xu — Biogeosciences

Effects of thinning intensity on understory vegetation and soil microbial communities of a mature Chinese pine plantation in the Loess Plateau — Peng Dang — Science of The Total Environment

Soil microbial communities and glyphosate decay in soils with different herbicide application history — Keren Hernández Guijarro — Science of the Total Environment

Andrew Bissett, Project Leader for «Microbes and healthy waterways», contributed to a recent publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution that investigated the legacy of past climates on the current distribution of soil microbial communities.

Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes

Impact of fomesafen on the soil microbial communities in soybean fields in Northeastern China — XH Wu — Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety DOI not available yet.

While organic agriculture practices result in higher soil organic matter (SOM) contents and, in turn, higher nutrient - and water - supplying potential to crops, transition to organic farming typically involves a lag time of several years in which yields can suffer and input demands increase as rebuilding soil microbial communities compete with crops for nitrogen and other available nutrients (Simmons and Coleman, 2008).

AMP grazing draws down and stores carbon, but it also has vast implications for the health of livestock, land, and soil microbial communities.

The results hold implications for land management, improved climate change models, and a better understanding of carbon cycling in soil microbial communities and how changes in global temperatures impact Earth's deserts.

Not exact matches

«By understanding how microbes work and modifying the environments where they function, we can eventually engineer microbial communities to enhance soil productivity.

Understanding how microbial communities in the biocrusts adapt to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

«The next phases are a lot more soil biology, measuring changes below ground in fungal and microbial communities to get a handle on how they are responding to the warming.»

Model simulations can always be improved by testing predictions against field data collected from different ecosystems, and Sulman and Phillips are doing just that: investigating how roots influence soil decomposition and protected forms of carbon in forests that vary in the composition of tree and microbial communities.

It should include, as a matter of priority, endangered soil habitats and soil types, where the most diverse microbial communities are to be found.

«In contrast to a traditional soil decomposition model, our model can elucidate mechanisms that depend on social dynamics that emerge on the microbial community level, but are driven by individual interactions among microbes competing for food and space at the smallest scale.»

Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities — also called «microbiomes» — in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.

One avenue of research is the changing microbial community in the soil beneath decomposing bodies.

Cuypers, who was not involved with the work, says the most surprising insight is that the microbial decomposer community doesn't depend on soil type.

Microbial communities in marine sediments control ecological processes, affecting the availability of nutrients and the chemistry of the soil.

We want a healthy, diverse microbial community so that those processes can happen and improve our soils,» says University of Illinois doctoral student Stacy Zuber.

Given the continuous dryness and subfreezing temperatures, and the lack of available water, even in summer, it is unlikely that any microbial communities can grow in these soils.»

Specifically, the researchers found that deforestation dramatically alters microbial communities in sandy soils, but has minimal effects in muddy, clay - like soils, even after extensive tree removal.

In a comprehensive analysis of soil collected from 11 distinct U.S. regions, from Hawaii to northern Alaska, researchers found that the extent to which deforestation disturbs underground microbial communities that regulate the loss of carbon into the atmosphere depends almost exclusively on the texture of the soil.

The next step in the research was to sample the rhizosphere, the soil in the region around the roots of rice plants growing in the field, to reveal the microbial community living there and to attempt to elucidate their roles.

The potential risks of altering a soil's microbial community will also need to be assessed.

Surprisingly, the «decomposer» microbial communities under mice were similar in all three soils, much like the predictable succession in soils beneath the human cadavers.

* Dynamic changes in microbial communities during the bioremediation of herbicide (chlorimuron - ethyl and atrazine) contaminated soils by combined degrading bacteria — Jian Wang — PLOSone

Plant growth - promoting rhizobacteria inoculation and nitrogen fertilization increase maize (Zea mays L.) grain yield and modified rhizosphere microbial communities — Luciana P. Di Salvo — Applied Soil Ecology

The researchers working on the Great Prairie project have managed to compile about 1.8 trillion bases of DNA data, but Jansson thinks those data describe only a fraction of the microbial communities in prairie soil, given that the soil contains between 1 billion and 10 billion individual cells per gram.

Microbial community structure with trends in methylation gene diversity and abundance in mercury - contaminated rice paddy soils in Guizhou, China — Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya — Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts

The Earth's soils and sediments also host microbial communities.

Of note today: non-exclusive breastfeeding increases the risk of HIV transmission via the alteration of gut microbiome / T - cell activation; Fasting altered the gut microbiome in beneficial ways but only in mice previously fed a high fat diet; An investigation into new species of the honey and bumblebee gut commensal genus Gilliamella; Catfish development shapes gut microbial community structure independent of diet; A metagenomic analysis of the skin microbiome of the frog, Craugastor fitzingeri; The microbiome is altered during the bioremediation of herbicide contaminated soil; The impact of urban density on the soil microbiome; A randomized placebo controlled clinical trial of a microbiota based drug for the prevention of Clostridium difficile Infection; and the virome of the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin of Mexico

In the near future, these researchers plan to develop methods to screen soils for carbon sequestration potential based on their microbial communities.

Effects of soil depth and plant - soil interaction on microbial community in temperate grasslands of northern China.

How to use microbial community data from soils, dust, or objects for forensic or archaeologic use.

Modulation of the efficiency of trace metal phytoremediation by Sedum plumbizincicola by microbial community structure and function — Jinyu Hou — Plant and Soil

The aim of this work was to determine the efficiency of a straw / compost / soil biomixture for pesticide depuration during its aging and continuous use, for a period of over a year, based on its capacity to remove carbofuran (CFN), while simultaneously monitoring the variations in microbial community structure.

Relationships between soil organic matter, nutrients, bacterial community structure, and the performance of microbial fuel cells.

Long - term forest soil warming alters microbial communities in temperate forest soils.

At PNNL, her research focuses on the microbial ecology of soils and other terrestrial ecosystems, which includes efforts to understand the carbon cycling processes of microbial communities.