Functional diversity of microbial communities in the mixed boreal plain forest of central Canada

Changes in functional diversity of soil microbial community with addition of antibiotics sulfamethoxazole and chlortetracycline

“…Single incubation period was familiarly used to analyze the Biolog data (White et al 2005). In this study, optical density (OD) values at 96-h incubation were selected for subsequent analysis because the greatest difference in microbial substrate utilization potential among the treatments was observed at this reading time.…”

Relationships between soil water repellency and microbial community composition under different plant species in a Mediterranean semiarid forest

“…SWR, soil microbiology structure and activity are all functions of abiotic and biotic conditions; soil texture and mineralogy, soil moisture, climate, site specific conditions, chemical parameters, substrate availability, land use and plant communities (Gömöryová et al, 2013;Merilä et al, 2010;White et al 2005;Zornoza et al, 2009). Previous research has shown that water repellent patches of soil differ from adjacent wettable soils in pH, moisture, SOM quality and quantity, and microbial biomass (Doerr et al, 2000), even beneath the same plant species (Lozano et al, 2013).…”

Vegetation patterns influence on soil microbial biomass and functional diversity in a hilly area of the Loess Plateau, China

“…The developed community-level physiological profile method now provides a rapid and effective procedure to analyze soil microbial communities (Zak et al 1994;Zhang and Xu 2008). Its application through the BIOLOG system has been used to measure the microbial communities under a variety of conditions such as cultivated and uncultivated soil (Yan et al 2000), various crop types and rotation schemes (Garland 1996;Lupwayi et al 1998), grasslands (Zak et al 1994), different tree species (Grayston and Campbell 1996), and boreal plain forests (White et al 2005).…”