Sentences with phrase «soil microbial diversity»
Farm management, not soil microbial diversity, controls nutrient loss from smallholder tropical agriculture.
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Without a regular input of organic matter, soil microbial diversity decreases and the carbon concentration is lowered.
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Under European conditions, organic agriculture performs better than conventional agriculture with regard to certain parameters: for example, 30 to 100 percent higher microbial activity3 and a significantly higher biomass (+30 to 40 percent), density (+ 50 to 80 percent) and species diversity of earthworms, a key soil - macro faunal species4.
However, the connection between the chemical diversity of soil and microbial diversity is poorly understood,» said Trent Northen, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
In his own lab, he is raising nematodes on soil enriched with different types of produce — sugary versus fibrous, for example — and finds that no matter what the food source and the resulting environmental microbial diversity, worms have similar sets of bacteria in their guts.
A serious consequence of deforestation is extensive loss of carbon from the soil, a process regulated by subterranean microbial diversity.
To better understand the microbial diversity of these environments, researchers from the University of Manitoba isolated AAP strains from soil samples at four different sites within the Central Gold Mine tailings.
Last year microbial ecologist Noah Fierer, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder, sampled bacterial diversity in 98 different soils across North and South America.
The new study «counters the notion that soil bacteria are an exhausted source of natural products, and it opens the door to begin to explore the remaining 99 % of microbial diversity that traditional culture - dependent approaches have missed,» says Steven G. Van Lanen of the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy.
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
Diversity of root - associated microbial populations of Tamarix parviflora cultivated under various conditions — Marketa Polivkova — Applied Soil Ecology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome Photoautotrophic organisms control microbial abundance, diversity, and physiology in different types of biological soil crusts.
December 17, 2017 Plant diversity enhances soil microbial biomass, particularly soil fungi, by increasing root - derived organic inputs.
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.
- Designing a garden / field to encourage diversity and health - Spatial planning - Companion planting - Succession planting · Soil Health Basics for Organic Systems - Microbial life - Compost - Compost teas - Cover Cropping