The effects of a dry-rewetting event (D/RW) on soil microbial properties and nutrient release by leaching from two soils taken from adjacent grasslands with different histories of management intensity were studied. These were a low-productivity grassland, with no history of fertilizer application and a high-productivity grassland with a history of high fertilizer application, referred to as unimproved and improved grassland, respectively. The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis (PLFA) revealed that the soil of the unimproved grassland had a significantly greater microbial biomass, and a greater abundance of fungi relative to bacteria than did the improved grassland. Soils from both grasslands were maintained...
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Journal Citation;
Tags: Soil Biology and Biochemistry,
carbon,
dissolved inorganic nitrogen,
dissolved organic carbon,
dissolved organic nitrogen, All tags...
drying and rewetting,
grassland,
leachates,
leaching,
microbial biomass,
nitrogen,
nutrient retention and release,
plfa, Fewer tags
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