Controls and adaptive management of nitrification in agricultural soils

J Norton, Y Ouyang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Agriculture is responsible for over half of the input of reactive nitrogen (N) to terrestrial
systems; however improving N availability remains the primary management technique to …

Ecology of denitrifying prokaryotes in agricultural soil

L Philippot, S Hallin, M Schloter - Advances in agronomy, 2007 - Elsevier
Denitrification is a microbial respiratory process during which soluble nitrogen oxides are
used as an alternative electron acceptor when oxygen is limiting. It results in considerable …

[BOK][B] The evolutionary strategies that shape ecosystems

JP Grime, S Pierce - 2012 - books.google.com
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

Relationships between nitrogen cycling microbial community abundance and composition reveal the indirect effect of soil pH on oak decline

K Scarlett, S Denman, DR Clark, J Forster… - The ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tree decline is a global concern and the primary cause is often unknown. Complex
interactions between fluctuations in nitrogen (N) and acidifying compounds have been …

Relationship between N-cycling communities and ecosystem functioning in a 50-year-old fertilization experiment

S Hallin, CM Jones, M Schloter, L Philippot - The ISME journal, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The relative importance of size and composition of microbial communities in ecosystem
functioning is poorly understood. Here, we investigated how community composition and …

Effect of long-term application of manure and fertilizer on biological and biochemical activities in soil during crop development stages

A Mandal, AK Patra, D Singh, A Swarup… - Bioresource technology, 2007 - Elsevier
A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of six long-term (34-year) fertilizer
and farmyard manure (FYM) treatments (Control, N, NP, NPK, NPK+ S, NPK+ FYM) and …

First report of diazotrophic Brevundimonas spp. as growth enhancer and root colonizer of potato

T Naqqash, A Imran, S Hameed, M Shahid… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Rhizobacteria contain various plant-beneficial traits and their inoculation can sustainably
increase crop yield and productivity. The present study describes the growth-promoting …

Restoration of carbon and microbial activity in salt-induced soil by application of peanut shell biochar during short-term incubation study

D Bhaduri, A Saha, D Desai, HN Meena - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
For the present study, soil samples of four artificially-induced salinity gradients (S 0: control,
S 1: 2.0, S 2: 4.0, S 3: 6.0 EC iw) was incubated with fine-textured peanut shell biochar at …

Diversity and Abundance of Nitrate Reductase Genes (narG and napA), Nitrite Reductase Genes (nirS and nrfA), and Their Transcripts in Estuarine Sediments

CJ Smith, DB Nedwell, LF Dong… - Applied and …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
Estuarine systems are the major conduits for the transfer of nitrate from agricultural and other
terrestrial-anthropogenic sources into marine ecosystems. Within estuarine sediments some …

Soil environmental conditions rather than denitrifier abundance and diversity drive potential denitrification after changes in land uses

E Attard, S Recous, A Chabbi… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use practices aiming at increasing agro‐ecosystem sustainability, eg no‐till systems
and use of temporary grasslands, have been developed in crop** areas, but their …