Identification of new microbial functional standards for soil quality assessment

Thiele-Bruhn, Sören; Schloter, Michael; Wilke, Berndt-Michael; Beaudette, Lee A.; Martin-Laurent, Fabrice; Cheviron, Nathalie; Mougin, Christian; Römbke, Jörg

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-17-2020

Articles | Volume 6, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-17-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-17-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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31 Jan 2020

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Identification of new microbial functional standards for soil quality assessment

Sören Thiele-Bruhn, Michael Schloter, Berndt-Michael Wilke, Lee A. Beaudette, Fabrice Martin-Laurent, Nathalie Cheviron, Christian Mougin, and Jörg Römbke

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Robert Griffith, 05 Aug 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer#1, MS No.: soil-2019-42', Sören Thiele-Bruhn, 29 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Review and suggestions', Emilia Hannula, 16 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer#2, MS No.: soil-2019-42', Sören Thiele-Bruhn, 29 Nov 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Revision (09 Dec 2019) by Jeanette Whitaker

AR by Sören Thiele-Bruhn on behalf of the Authors (13 Dec 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 Jan 2020) by Jeanette Whitaker

ED: Publish as is (07 Jan 2020) by John Quinton (Executive editor)

AR by Sören Thiele-Bruhn on behalf of the Authors (07 Jan 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Soil quality depends on the functioning of soil microbiota. Only a few standardized methods are available to assess this as well as adverse effects of human activities. So we need to identify promising additional methods that target soil microbial function. Discussed are (i) molecular methods using qPCR for new endpoints, e.g. in N and P cycling and greenhouse gas emissions, (ii) techniques for fungal enzyme activities, and (iii) field methods on carbon turnover such as the litter bag test.