Paolo Nannipieri

TL;DR: In this article, a new generation of experiments and soil carbon models were proposed to predict the SOM response to global warming, and they showed that molecular structure alone alone does not control SOM stability.

TL;DR: Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Applied Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry in applied soil microbiology and biochemistry and field methods.

TL;DR: A better understanding of the relations between microbial diversity and soil functions requires not only the use of more accurate assays for taxonomically and functionally characterizing DNA and RNA extracted from soil, but also high-resolution techniques with which to detect inactive and active microbial cells in the soil matrix.

TL;DR: A review of the state of the art of the general and specific criteria used to determine microbiological activity in soil and to emphasize the exact meaning of each measurement and to facilitate its correct use can be found in this paper.

TL;DR: Soil phosphatases, particularly acid and alkaline phosphomonoesterases, have been extensively studied as mentioned in this paper, because they mineralise organic phosphorus (P) to inorganic P. The effects of agricultural and forest managements, pollutants and any environmental factor on phosphatase activities of soil cannot be adequately interpreted because the currently available enzyme assays do not discriminate between the contribution of phosphat enzymes associated with active microbial cells and that of extracellular phosphatists stabilised by soil colloids.