Monitoring microbial biomass and respiration in different soils from the Czech Republic—a summary of results

Hofman, Jakub; Dušek, Ladislav; Klánová, Jana; Bezchlebová, Jitka; Holoubek, Ivan

doi:10.1016/s0160-4120(03)00142-9

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“…Some studies have also indicated that accumulation of microbial biomass primarily occurred in the earlier stage of vegetation succession (Roy and Singh, 2003;Jia et al, 2005), while Wardle et al (2004) also emphasized that microbial biomass was optimized at the intermediate stages of the succession. The correlation analysis indicated that microbial parameters were predominantly and positively related to soil organic C, NH 4 -N, NO 3 -N and WHC, which indicated the soils carbon, nitrogen and humidity might be important factors in mediating microbial process (Bauhus and Khanna, 1994;Pankhurst et al, 1995;Rampazzo and Mentler, 2001;Hofman et al, 2004). The soil oligotrophic bacteria, which represent less nutrient demanding microorganisms indigenous to soil (Filip et al, 2000), were not correlated to the nutrient improvement.…”

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Characterization of Soil Physico-Chemical and Microbial Parameters after Revegetation Near Shaoguan Pb/Zn Smelter, Guangdong, P.R. China

Zhang

Huang

Wong

et al. 2006

Water Air Soil Pollut

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The criterion for judging the successful revegetation largely focuses on the aboveground indicators, whereas the information for soil ecosystem during the revegetation is often ignored. To better understand the effects of the revegetation on the development of the soil ecosystem near Shaoguan Pb/Zn Smelter, Guangdong Province of Southern China, we compared the difference of the microbial and physico-chemical parameters between the four revegetated sites and two control sites (bare ground and native forest area). The soil organic C, total N, total P, NH 4 -N, NO 3 -N, available P, WHC and porosity significantly increased and bulk density decreased in the four revegetated sites compared with those in bare ground, indicating the processive effects of the revegetation on the reestablishment of the soil nutrient pools. The heavy metal contents were higher in the four revegetated sites than in the bare ground, thus the revegetation resulted in the accumulation of heavy metals released from smelter in surface soil. The soil microbial composition and activities, except that the oligotrophic bacterial number decreased over revegetation time, significantly increased in the revegetated sites compared with those in the bare ground, and predominantly correlated with soil organic C, total N, NH 4 -N, NO 3 -N and WHC. The soil oligotrophic bacteria was negatively related to all individual heavy metal contents, thus was the most sensitive indicator in reflecting heavy metal stress, while other microbial parameters, despite not showing negative relationships to the individual heavy metal contents, were sensitive to the potential availability of Pb and Cu (ratio of available to total heavy metal contents), but less sensitive to those of Zn and Cd. Both the principal component analysis (PCA) and the discriminant analysis (DA) resulted from microbial and physico-chemical datasets not only revealed the shifts of the soil physico-chemical and microbial patterns from the unrevegetated to non-polluted conditions, but also implied the possible loss of effects of revegetation on soil remediation in the sites revegetated for four (RIV) and five (RV) years, respectively.

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Characterization of Soil Physico-Chemical and Microbial Parameters after Revegetation Near Shaoguan Pb/Zn Smelter, Guangdong, P.R. China

Zhang

Huang

Wong

et al. 2006

Water Air Soil Pollut

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“…The timing of this one-off measurement of CO 2 concentration varies, with many Table 2 Recommended soil pre-incubation periods prior to measurement of soil basal respiration (Jones et al, 2008 studies reporting 24 h of incubation (e.g. Grayston et al, 2001;Hofman et al, 2004;Uzun and Uyanoz, 2011), while incubation times as short as 6 h have been reported (Bundy et al, 2004;Vanhala et al, 2005). ISO 16072:2002 indicates that one reading after 20-24 h is sufficient (in addition to the initial T0 reading).…”

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Measuring basal soil respiration across Europe: Do incubation temperature and incubation period matter?

Creamer

Schulte

Stone

et al. 2014

Ecological Indicators

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a b s t r a c tThe European Commission recognises the essential role of soil biology in soil functioning and delivery of ecosystem services, but information is currently lacking evaluate of how these vary across soil and land-use types at a European scale. This study evaluated the measurement of the initial rate of soil basal respiration (BR) as a potential biological indicator of ecosystem service provision. The purpose of this study was to test ISO 16072:2002 (Soil Quality: Laboratory methods for the determining of microbial soil respiration). In the literature a range of pre-incubation temperatures (pre-inc) and experimental incubation temperatures (exp-inc) have been applied when using the ISO method for the establishment of basal respiration. This study evaluated whether the range of temperatures applied during pre-and exp-incubation had a significant effect on the rate of respiration determined when following the protocol established in ISO 16072:2002. The evaluation was carried out on a pedo-climatic gradient spanning ten countries across Europe and covering four biogeographical regions. Three sites were sampled in each country providing a range of soil and land-use parameters. Our results suggest that experimental incubation temperatures of 20• C or above should be used in the application of the methodology ISO 16072:2002 (incubation at 15• C resulted in erratic variation between replicates). However, pre-incubation temperature did not affect the soil basal respiration rate, when following the standard recommendations. The time interval with the best prediction of the initial rate of basal respiration was 6 h.

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“…Nevertheless, scientists published many papers about the monitoring and impact of soil properties on the biological parameters of soil types in many regions of the world [20,17,12], but the soils the Slovak Republic have rarely been studied. Biological monitoring can extend information about environmental pollution and about the soil physical-chemical properties in every soil survey [10].…”

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

Maková¹,

Javoreková²,

Medo³

et al. 2011

j. cent. eur. agric.

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The aim of our work was to survey and state the representative values and range of the microbial biomass carbon (C mic ) and microbial respiration activities in arable soils of three types (Chernozem, Luvisol, Planosol) and in pasture grassland soil (Cambisol). In arable soils no significant differences between the soil types were found concerning the content of C mic . Way of soil use significantly influenced C mic with higher values on pasture grassland soil. In Cambisol, a relatively strong relationships between C mic and C org (r = 0.919) as well as between C mic and N tot (r = 0.922) were determined. The basal respiration (BR) was no affected neither by a soil type nor by a way of soil use. On all monitored sites microbes responded positively to the addition of glucose (potential respiration -PR), but the strongest response was observed on the soil types with good mineralisation ability, such as Chernozems and Luvisols. On pasture grassland soil, the substrate availability index (PR/BR) with values of 2.32 was observed, which is lower compared to 7.60 of arable soil. This fact to indicate that pasture grassland soil had more easy decomposable organic compounds than arable soils.Keywords: arable soil; pasture grassland soil; microbial biomass carbon; respiration. AbstraktCieľom našej práce bolo preskúmať a stanoviť reprezentatívne hodnoty a rozsah hodnôt uhlíka mikrobiálnej biomasy (C mic ) a respiračnej aktivity ornej pôdy troch pôdnych typov (černozem, hnedozem, pseudoglej) a pôdy pasienka (kambizem). V ornej pôde neboli zistené preukazné rozdiely v obsahu C mic medzi pôdnymi typmi. Spôsob využívania pôdy preukazne ovplyvnil C mic , s vyššími hodnotami pri pasienku. V kambizemi boli zistené relatívne silné vzťahy medzi C mic a C org (r = 0,919) a C mic a N tot (r = 0,922). Bazálna respirácia (BR) nebola ovplyvnená pôdnym typom ani spôsobom využívania pôdy. Na všetkých sledovaných stanovištiach mikroorganizmy pozitívne reagovali na prídavok glukózy (potenciálna respirácia -PR), ale najsilnejšia odpoveď bola pri pôdnych typoch s dobrou mineralizačnou aktivitou ako černozem DETAILNÝ ABSTRAKTUvedenou štúdiou sme zmonitorovali veľkosť uhlíka mikrobiálnej biomasy a respiračnú aktivitu v štyroch najrozšírenejších pôdnych typoch Slovenska využívaných ako orná pôda a pasienok. Medzi pôdnymi typmi hnedozem (8 lokalít), černozem (7 lokalít) a pseudoglej (6 lokalít) na ornej pôde sme v množstve uhlíka biomasy mikroorganizmov nezistili preukazné rozdiely (pseudoglej od 107 do 777, s priemernou hodnotou 456 µg C g -1 ; černozem od 146 do 802 s priemernou hodnotou 362 µg C g -1 ; hnedozem od 108 do 714 s priemernou hodnotou 257 µg C g -1 ). Avšak pri tomto type využívania pôdy bolo štatisticky preukazne nižšie zastúpenie uhlíka biomasy mikroorganizmov ako v pôde pasienka (kambizem od 1024 do 1592 s priemernou hodnotou 1294 µg C g -1 ). Bazálna respirácia (BR) nebola ovplyvnená pôdnym typom ani spôsobom využívania pôdy. Na prídavok glukózy (potenciálna respirácia PR) pozitívne reagovali mikroorganizmy zo všetkýc...

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Monitoring microbial biomass and respiration in different soils from the Czech Republic—a summary of results

Cited by 41 publications

References 31 publications

Characterization of Soil Physico-Chemical and Microbial Parameters after Revegetation Near Shaoguan Pb/Zn Smelter, Guangdong, P.R. China

Characterization of Soil Physico-Chemical and Microbial Parameters after Revegetation Near Shaoguan Pb/Zn Smelter, Guangdong, P.R. China

Measuring basal soil respiration across Europe: Do incubation temperature and incubation period matter?

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

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