Land-use change and management practices are normally enacted to manipulate
environments to improve conditions that relate to production, remediation, and …

Aim Quantify direct and indirect relationships between soil microbial community properties
(potential basal respiration, microbial biomass) and abiotic factors (soil, climate) in three …

Plant-microbe interactions are of particular importance in polluted soils. This study sought to
determine how selected plants (horseradish, black nightshade and tobacco) and NPK …

The Southern Andean Yungas in Northwest Argentina constitute one of the main biodiversity
hotspots in the world. Considerable changes in land use have taken place in this ecoregion …

Community-level physiological profiling (CLPP) is a technique which offers an easily applied
protocol yielding information regarding mixed microbial community function and functional …

For characterization of the microbiology of soil samples, functional aspects related to
substrate utilization are as useful as taxonomic or structural investigations based on DNA or …

Soil bacteria are important components of forest ecosystems, there compostion structure and
functions are sensitive to environmental conditions along elevation gradients. Using 16S …

Forests are essential biomes for global biogeochemical cycles, and belowground
microorganisms have a key role in providing relevant ecosystem services. To predict the …

Land-use change is considered likely to be one of main drivers of biodiversity changes in
grassland ecosystems. To gain insight into the impact of land use on the underlying soil …

Functional diversities of micro-organisms in arctic soils at three incubation temperatures
were assessed using sole-carbon-source-utilization (SCSU). Soil samples were collected …