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Manuel Pesaro
Researcher at ETH Zurich
Publications - 9
Citations - 1225
Manuel Pesaro is an academic researcher from ETH Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil water & Temperature gradient gel electrophoresis. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 9 publications receiving 1155 citations. Previous affiliations of Manuel Pesaro include École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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Preferential Flow Paths: Biological Hot Spots in Soils
TL;DR: In this paper, preferential flow paths have higher microbial biomass and different microbial community structures than the rest of the soil, and the organic C concentrations in the preferential flow path were 10 to 70% higher than in the matrix.
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A strategy for optimizing quality and quantity of DNA extracted from soil
TL;DR: This study provides detailed guidelines on how to optimize the general method to obtain optimal DNA from individual soils, and proposes a protocol for the quantification of the total DNA content in soils.
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Impact of Soil Drying-Rewetting Stress on Microbial Communities and Activities and on Degradation of Two Crop Protection Products
TL;DR: Various structural and functional MSCs were not resistant to drying-rewetting stress and that resilience depended strongly on the parameter investigated, as well as specific groups in the microbial community were sensitive to the stress.
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Effects of freeze–thaw stress during soil storage on microbial communities and methidathion degradation
TL;DR: Investigating the influence of soil frozen storage on microbiological soil characteristics (MSCs) and CPP mineralization rates revealed that the initial MSCs were not restored after 42 days equilibration of the frozen soil, even though SIR rates and mineralization of one specific CPP appeared unaffected.
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Activity and Diversity of Methanogens in a Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Aquifer
Jutta Kleikemper,Silvina A. Pombo,Martin H. Schroth,William V. Sigler,Manuel Pesaro,Josef Zeyer +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that both aceticlastic and CO2-type substrate-consuming methanogens are likely involved in the terminal step of hydrocarbon degradation, while methanogenesis from methanol plays a minor role.