Effect of alginite amendment on microbial activity and soil water content in forest soils
Abstract: The effect of the amendment with alginite, an organic rock originating from the biomass of fossilized unicellular algae, on microbial activity of forest soils was tested using a pot experiment. Five variants of soil-alginite mixtures were tested in three replicates with two forest soils: a loose sandy soil and a sandy loam. Gravimetric moisture closely correlated with the dose of alginite in both soils. Basal respiration and catalase activity increased with the dose of alginite in the sandy soil, but not in the sandy loam, where the highest response was observed at intermediate doses of alginite. The correlations of microbial activity parameters with moisture in the sandy soil were also much closer than in the sandy loam. The amendment with alginite was thus effective in improving some of the selected microbial activity indicators, but the optimum dose of alginite strongly depends on soil texture.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Effect of alginite amendment on microbial activity and soil water content in forest soils ; volume:64 ; number:3 ; year:2009 ; pages:585-588 ; extent:4
Biologia ; 64, Heft 3 (2009), 585-588 (gesamt 4)
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Gömöryová, Erika
Vass, Dionýz
Pichler, Viliam
Gömöry, Dušan
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10.2478/s11756-009-0081-z
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2409221624282.693191421417
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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- Gömöryová, Erika
- Vass, Dionýz
- Pichler, Viliam
- Gömöry, Dušan