RELATIONS BETWEEN SOIL MICROBIAL ACTIVITY AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN GRASSLAND

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Thirty samples of grassland surface soil, which had a diverse management history and consequently displayed a wide range of soil properties, were studied to analyze the relationships between soil microbial activity and soil properties. The microbial measurements included the number of bacteria, number of Gram negative bacteria, number of fungi obtained by the plate method, TTC reducing activity and nitrifying activity. In the uppermost layers (at the 0 to 2 cm depth), simple correlation analyses showed that bacterial numbers were positively correlated with soil pH and negatively correlated with Bray No. 2 P, total C, and grassland age. TTC reducing activity and nitrifying activity were also positively correlated with soil pH, while the fungal number was not significantly related to any soil properties. In the lower layer (at the 5 to 15 cm depth), all of the microbial measurements were negatively correlated with grassland age and were positively correlated with microbial substrate level. Soil pH and exchangeable K were positively correlated with the microbial measurements except for the Gram negative bacteria, and significant correlations among almost all the microbial measurements were observed. These results suggest that soil pH accounted primarily for microbial activities in the uppermost layers. Also microbial substrate level, soil pH and probably amounts of exchangeable K, which inevitably decreased with grass land age, appeared to control the microbial activities in the lower soil layers.
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RELATIONS BETWEEN SOIL MICROBIAL ACTIVITY AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN GRASSLAND

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