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Articles | Volume 6, issue 1
Articles | Volume 6, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-17-2020
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-17-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 6, issue 1
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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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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.
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