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The influence of collembolans and earthworms on AM fungal mycelium
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The biomass of AM fungi was stimulated by earthworms, but that fungal dispersal over 20 cm was not influenced, and spore production and mycorrhizal inoculum potential were not affected by the presence of soil fauna.About:
This article is published in Applied Soil Ecology.The article was published on 2004-11-01. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mycorrhiza & Soil biology.read more
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The feeding ecology of earthworms – A review
James P. Curry,Olaf Schmidt +1 more
TL;DR: Stable isotope ratio analysis of light elements offers a powerful research tool to reveal and quantify trophic relationships of earthworms in soil food webs, while molecular techniques can further enhance understanding of the interactions between earthworms and microorganisms and their functional significance.
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Application of fresh and composted organic wastes modifies structure, size and activity of soil microbial community under semiarid climate
TL;DR: It can be concluded that microbial biomass and activity of degraded semiarid soils can be improved by the addition of organic materials of differing degrees of stabilization (compost and sewage sludge) and compost-amended soils showed the highest carbon contents.
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Rhizosphere fauna: the functional and structural diversity of intimate interactions of soil fauna with plant roots
TL;DR: In this review, areas of recent exciting progress are highlighted and the black boxes that still need to be illuminated by rhizosphere zoologists and ecologists are pointed out.
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Interactions between an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus and a soil microbial community mediating litter decomposition.
TL;DR: In this paper, the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) alteration of microbial mediation of litter decomposition was investigated, and succession of the soil community mediating decomposition is assessed by phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) combined with 13C-PLFA.
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Carbon fluxes from plants through soil organisms determined by field 13CO2 pulse-labelling in an upland grassland
TL;DR: It is explained how the new insights gained from these studies emphasise the complex temporal dynamics of recent photosynthate entering the soil through different pathways and the role of multi-trophic interactions between soil biota in determining the fate of recently fixed carbon in grasslands.
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Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences
TL;DR: This is the revision of the classic text in the field, adding two new chapters and thoroughly updating all others as discussed by the authors, and the original structure is retained, and the book continues to serve as a combined text/reference.
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Improved procedures for clearing roots and staining parasitic and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for rapid assessment of infection.
J.M. Phillips,D. S. Hayman +1 more
TL;DR: To improve stain penetration and clearing in whole mycorrhizal roots of onion and other host plants, and in roots infected by other fungi, the following two procedures are developed, which give deeply stained fungal structures which show distinctly against the outlines of the cells in the cortex of intact roots.
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An evaluation of techniques for measuring vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal infection in roots
TL;DR: The standard error of four methods of assessment based on observations of stained root samples either randomly arranged in a petri dish or mounted on microscope slides are calculated.
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The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis to estimate bacterial and fungal biomass in soil
Åsa Frostegård,Erland Bååth +1 more
TL;DR: The cell content of 12 bacterial phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) was determined in bacteria extracted from soil by homogenization/centrifugation and the soil content of the PLFA 18:2ω6 was correlated with the ergosterol content, which supports the use of this PLFA as an indicator of fungal biomass.
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Phospholipid Fatty Acid composition, biomass, and activity of microbial communities from two soil types experimentally exposed to different heavy metals.
TL;DR: Effects on the PLFA patterns were found at levels of metal contamination similar to or lower than those at which effects on ATP content, soil respiration, or total amount of PLFAs had occurred.