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Castellazzi, M. S., Brookes, P. C. and Jenkinson, D. S. 2004. Distribution of microbial biomass down soil profiles under regenerating woodland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 36 (9), pp. 1485-1489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.04.020
Authors | Castellazzi, M. S., Brookes, P. C. and Jenkinson, D. S. |
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Abstract | Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) was measured in soil profiles taken from two areas of deciduous woodland on Rothamsted Farm, one near neutral, one acidic. Biomass carbon (C) was calculated from these measurements. Comparison of the results with others taken from the literature showed that an exponential function m=e−(rbd) gave a close fit to the assembled data for the top metre of mineral soil, where m is biomass C, expressed as a fraction of that in the topsoil, d the depth (in cm, measured downwards from the middle of the topmost sampling layer) and rb a constant, in cm−1. The mean value for rb for 12 soils (including our two) is 0.046 cm−1, with a SD of ±0.0078. |
Keywords | soil microbial biomass; ATP; woodland soils; Decline of soil microbial biomass with depth |
Year of Publication | 2004 |
Journal | Soil Biology and Biochemistry |
Journal citation | 36 (9), pp. 1485-1489 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.04.020 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Funder | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
Funder project or code | 444 |
511 | |
Dynamics of organic carbon in soil | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 31 May 2004 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 23 Apr 2004 |
Copyright license | Publisher copyright |
Publisher | Elsevier |
ISSN | 0038-0717 |
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