The key driving factor for sustainable agriculture is soil ecosystem, where pivotal services
are provided by the soil biota,'the biological engine of the earth', which can act as early …

The analysis of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) is one of the most common methods used
to quantify the abundance, and analyse the community structure, of soil microbes. The PLFA …

Eleven species of common fungi from compost were analysed for their content of ergosterol
and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) after growth on agar media. Mean content of ergosterol …

Determination of fungal biomass (FB) and FB-carbon (FB-C) from soil ergosterol
concentration is difficult because of unknown ergosterol-to-fungal biomass (E-to-FB) …

Soil quality indicators may be useful for evaluating public policies such as the Conservation
Reserve Program (CRP). The objective of this study was to determine how CRP affected …

Alterations in soil microfungal community structure across a transect between a semi-natural
upland grassland and an agriculturally improved enclosure were assessed using an indirect …

Sixteen open-top chambers (diameter, 3.66 m) were established in a scrub oak habitat in
central Florida where vegetation was removed in a planned burn prior to chamber …

A physical disruption method was developed to extract ergosterol from soil samples. The
optimised procedure was to extract 4g of moist soil with 6ml of methanol by shaking for 1h at …

We studied the relationship between amounts of fungi and ergosterol in soil to further
evaluate the use of ergosterol as an indicator of soil fungal biomass. Soils from seven sites …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses fungal biomass and productivity. Fungal masses
are best measured via biochemical indices because fungi digest natural materials such as …