Effects of water pulses and climatic conditions on microbial biomass kinetics and microbial activity in a yermosol of the central negev

Andreas Flieβbach; Shlomo Sarig; Yosef Steinberger

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Effects of water pulses and climatic conditions on microbial biomass kinetics and microbial activity in a yermosol of the central negev

Andreas Flieβbach, Shlomo Sarig, Yosef Steinberger

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Abstract

Microbial biomass and respiration kinetics were monitored in a soil from the central Negev Desert, Israel. The chloroform-fumigation-incubation (CFI) and the substrate- induced respiration (SIR) method were used to estimate microbial biomass carbon (Cmic)- Detectable soil microbial biomass estimates as revealed by CFI were found after the first rain that occurred following the dry summer period. CFI as well as SIR biomass figures increased during the rainy period to maximum values of300 /Ug Cmic g~' soil and decreased rapidly toward the end of the rainy season. Under dry soil conditions no reproducible results were obtained for CFI, but SIR figures decreased to 70 fig Cmic g~‘soil during the hot summer period. Soil respiration in the upper 10-cm soil layer fluctuated significantly on a monthly timescale, whereas the metabolic quotient for C02 (qC02) stabilized at low rates only during the rainy season, indicating that microbial activity is rapidly becoming balanced, when climatic conditions allow microbial growth.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	353-362
Number of pages	10
Journal	Arid Soil Research and Rehabilitation
Volume	8
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15324989409381409
State	Published - 1994

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Funding Information:
For their encouraging efforts in this project, we wish to thank Dr. K. H. Domsch, Dr.R. Martens, andG.Walenzik. Special thanks gotoG.Barness forskillful technical assistance and to Ch. LeBreton for language editing. This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Israel) andtheMinistry of Science andTechnology (Germany), within thescopeof German-Israeli Cooperation in Environmental Research (DISUM).

Funding

For their encouraging efforts in this project, we wish to thank Dr. K. H. Domsch, Dr.R. Martens, andG.Walenzik. Special thanks gotoG.Barness forskillful technical assistance and to Ch. LeBreton for language editing. This research was funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Israel) andtheMinistry of Science andTechnology (Germany), within thescopeof German-Israeli Cooperation in Environmental Research (DISUM).

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Ministry of science and technology, Israel

Keywords

Arid soils
Metabolic quotient
Negev
QC02
Soil microbial biomass
Soil respiration
Soil water potential
Yermosol

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