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Introduction to soil microbiology
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In this paper, the biological processes that take place in the soil and their importance to soil fertility, plant growth, and environmental quality are investigated from both descriptive and functional viewpoints, including microbial ecology, the carbon and nitrogen cycles, mineral transformation, and ecological interrelationships.Abstract:
Characterizes soil microflora from descriptive and functional viewpoints; considers the biological processes that take place in the soil and their importance to soil fertility, plant growth, and environmental quality. Deals with the biochemical basis for soil processes, including microbial ecology, the carbon and nitrogen cycles, mineral transformation, and ecological interrelationships.read more
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Microbial links and element flows in nested detrital food-webs.
TL;DR: It is argued that in detrital food-webs, carbon (energy) is usually not a limiting factor and other elements, for example nitrogen and phosphorus, are present in ratios which are lower in the food than in the animal itself, and are more likely to be limiting.
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GC-MS identification of odorous volatiles in wastewater
TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of water samples from all unit processes of a wastewater treatment plant resulted in the identification of hydrocarbons, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur containing organic compounds.
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Degradation of 4-aminobenzenesulfonate by a two-species bacterial coculture. Physiological interactions between Hydrogenophaga palleronii S1 and Agrobacterium radiobacter S2.
Dangmann E,Alexandra Stolz,A E Kuhm,Angela Hammer,Feigel B,Naruemol Noisommit-Rizzi,Manfred Rizzi,Matthias Reuss,H J Knackmuss +8 more
TL;DR: The mutualistic interactions in a 4-aminobenzenesulfonate (sulfanilate) degrading mixed bacterial culture were studied and growth was found and the proportion of both strains moved towards an about equal value of about 3:1.
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Contrasts between subsurface microbial communities and their metabolic adaptation to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at a forested and an urban coal-tar disposal site.
TL;DR: It is speculated that past excavation and backfilling operations may have caused mixing of surface soil with subsurface materials at the urban site, which contributed to the PAH-mineralizing activity present in the sediment samples from the uncontaminated urban borehole.
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Biologic zero: A soil temperature concept
TL;DR: Biologic zero as discussed by the authors is defined as the temperature (5° C) below which biological activity is sufficiently low that reducing conditions do not readily develop in saturated soils, and it has been validated by numerous workers in soil and wetland science.