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Philip C. Brookes
Researcher at Zhejiang University
Publications - 312
Citations - 50656
Philip C. Brookes is an academic researcher from Zhejiang University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Soil water & Soil organic matter. The author has an hindex of 84, co-authored 311 publications receiving 42635 citations. Previous affiliations of Philip C. Brookes include The Hertz Corporation & Rothamsted Research.
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An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass c
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of fumigation on organic C extractable by 0.5 m K2SO4 were examined in a contrasting range of soils and it was shown that both ATP and organic C rendered decomposable by CHCl3 came from the soil microbial biomass.
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Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: A rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil
TL;DR: In this paper, a direct extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass nitrogen (biomass N) is described, which is based on CHC13 fumigation, followed by immediate extraction with 0.5 M K2SO4 and measurement of total N released by CHC 13 in the soil extracts.
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Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil.
Johannes Rousk,Erland Bååth,Philip C. Brookes,Christian L. Lauber,Catherine A. Lozupone,J. Gregory Caporaso,Rob Knight,Rob Knight,Noah Fierer,Noah Fierer +9 more
TL;DR: Soils collected across a long-term liming experiment were used to investigate the direct influence of pH on the abundance and composition of the two major soil microbial taxa, fungi and bacteria, and both the relative abundance and diversity of bacteria were positively related to pH.
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Measurement of soil microbial biomass C by fumigation-extraction—an automated procedure
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Measurement of microbial biomass phosphorus in soil
TL;DR: In this article, a method for measuring the amount of P held in soil micro-organisms (biomass P) is described and the assumptions on which it is based are discussed.