Characteristics of microbial biomass carbon and respiration activities in arable soil and pasture grassland soil

Maková, Jana; Javoreková, Soňa; Medo, Juraj; Majerčíková, Kamila

doi:10.5513/jcea01/12.4.986

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“…This parameter shows the highest values on the site which is localized at the centre of peatbog, where carbon mineralization is very fast and decreases with increasing depth. These results agree to those of other authors (Maková et al 2011;Klose et al 2004), and from various types of ecosystems.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Soil biological indices were positively correlated with soil organic carbon, while they were only negatively correlated with soil reaction measured in this study. Similar findings by other authors (Gömöryová et al 2009;Maková et al 2011) showed a very close relationship between chemical and biological soil parameters. Wide variations in the values of soil pH cause changes in physical and chemical soil properties, and thus, significantly influence microbial carbon and mineralization of soil organic matter.…”

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confidence: 92%

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Vertical Profiles of Soil Properties and Microbial Activities in Peatbog Soils in Slovakia

2015

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Peatlands are unique ecological communities that represent long-term terrestrial carbon sinks with enormous organic substance supply. Soil organic substance represents the main source of organic carbon in the biosphere, and depending of conditions, it is able to eliminate or sequestrate greenhouse gasses in the environment. Current methods of peatbogs assessment rely on the use of ecological indicators, but often lack an in-depth analysis of soil parameters. The objective of this study was to examine vertical profiles of selected soil properties (soil reaction, soil organic carbon content, soil moisture) and various types of microbial activity (soil basal respiration, microbial biomass carbon, activity of soil urease, phosphatases and catalase). Soil samples were collected from three sites (centre of peatbog, edge of peatbog and site closely surrounding peatbog) on the peat soil at three depth intervals (0-0.10 m, 0.10-0.20 m and 0.20-0.30 m) in northeast of Slovakia. Enzyme and microbial activities decreased with depth, but significant correlation was found with alkaline phosphatase. Average values of most soil biochemical indices were highest at the centre of peatbog with the exception of urease and catalase activity. Our results indicated that enzymatic and biological potential for organic matter mineralization was strongly correlated to soil pH, soil moisture and soil organic matter content.

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confidence: 94%

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confidence: 92%

Vertical Profiles of Soil Properties and Microbial Activities in Peatbog Soils in Slovakia

2015

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“…On average 95% of the microbial biomass and activities were governed by the soil organic carbon, soil total nitrogen, water holding capacity, soil aggregates, porosity and bulk density either positively or negatively (Table 4). The significant positive relations between the soil MBC and SOC agree with earlier reports by (Logahet al, 2010;Yang et al, 2010;Makova et al, 2011;Cheng et al, 2013;Bhuyanet al, 2013). This might be due to microbial biomass concentration depended on the organic matter availability to microbial activity , however, found no correlation between the biomass carbon and organic carbon.…”

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confidence: 91%

Microbial Community, Biomass and Physico-Chemical Properties of Soil in dry tropics

Woldemariam¹,

Ghoshal²

2020

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Soil physicochemical and microbial properties can be regarded as an important tool to assess soil quality and health. Studying the soil properties under different land use types is great practical significant for land use and soil management regarding soil carbon dynamics and climate change mitigation. However, the changes in land-use types and their eﬀects on soil physicochemical and microbial properties are largely debated and rather unclear. Four different land use types were used to study soil microbial and soil physico-chemical properties. Soil organic carbon and total nitrogen, soil microbial biomass and microbial diversity were determined by micro kjeldahl method, fumigation and extraction method and FAME GC-Ms, respectively. Among all land use pattern the highest water holding capacity (40.06±0.74%), porosity (0.539±0.011%), soil macro-aggregates (64.16±2.64%), organic carbon (0.84±0.054%), total nitrogen (0.123±0.013%), microbial biomass carbon (570.65±35.05 μg/g) and nitrogen (84.21±3.186 μg/g), basal respiration (3.64±0.064μg/g) and b-glucosidase (809.68±39.7μgμg PNP g-1 dry soil h-1) were found to be under natural forest followed by in decreasing order bamboo plantation, degraded forest and agricultural land. Significant differences were observed among the land use types with microbial biomass carbon and B-glucosidase activity. Furthermore, the correlation of analysis showed that microbial biomass, organic carbon, b-glucosidas activity, total nitrogen, moisture content, porosity, water holding capacity, soil macro aggregates were positively correlated to each other and negatively correlated with bulk density, meso and micro soil aggregates at p<0.05. The PLFA analysis showed that microbial community diversity exhibited distinct patterns among land-use types. The conversions of natural forest to other land use type, the amount of PLFA were reduced significantly. The natural forest had high microbial diversity followed by in decreasing order bamboo plantation, degraded forest and agricultural land. Among the organisms G- bacteria and fungi were showed decreasing order from natural forest, bamboo plantation, degraded forest and agricultural land. The reverse was true for G+ bacteria. The result of this study showed that soil physico-chemical and microbial properties were significantly affected by land use types. Thus bamboo based fallow has the potential for improving soil quality and properties in the short term.

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“…The factors of soil forming process that contribute to the formation of individual soil types have also influenced the biomass of soil microorganisms, composition of microbial communities as well as their activities [17]. Reason for the variability of soil microbial activity is different forest and soil type.…”

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Effect of forest and soil type on microbial biomass carbon and respiration

Habashi

2016

Eurasian Soil Sc.

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The aim of study was to evaluate the variation of soil microbial biomass carbon (C mic ) and microbial respiration (M R ) in three types soil (Chromic Cambisols, Chromic Luvisols and Eutric Leptosols) of mixed beech forest (Beech-Hornbeam and Beech-Maple). Soil was randomly sampled from 0-10 cm layer (plant litter removed), 90 soil samples were taken. C mic determined by the fumigation-extraction method and M R by closed bottle method. Soil C org , N tot and рН were measured. There are significant differences between the soil types concerning the C mic content and M R . These parameters were highest in Chromic Cambisols following Chromic Luvisols, while the lowest were in Eutric Leptosols. A similar trend of C org and N tot was observed in studied soils. Two-way ANOVA indicated that soil type and forest type have significantly effect on the most soil characteristics. Chromic Cambisols shows a productive soil due to have the maximum C mic , M R , C org and N tot . In Cambisols under Beech-Maple forest the C mic value and soil C/N ratio were higher compared to and 16.3 and 3.3, respectively). This fact might be indicated that Maple litter had more easy decomposable organic compounds than Hornbeam. According to regression analysis, 89 and 68 percentage of C mic variability could explain by soil C org and N tot respectively.

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Characteristics of microbial biomass carbon and respiration activities in arable soil and pasture grassland soil

Cited by 18 publications

References 23 publications

Vertical Profiles of Soil Properties and Microbial Activities in Peatbog Soils in Slovakia

Vertical Profiles of Soil Properties and Microbial Activities in Peatbog Soils in Slovakia

Microbial Community, Biomass and Physico-Chemical Properties of Soil in dry tropics

Effect of forest and soil type on microbial biomass carbon and respiration

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