Do growth yield efficiencies differ between soil microbial communities differing in fungal : bacterial ratios? reality check and methodological issues

By Rachel K Thiet, Serita Frey, Johan Six. 2006

261 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Soil Science

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In Environmental Chemistry

1. Y. Kuzyakov
2. J. Rousk
3. Serita Frey
4. E. Blagodatskaya
5. Noah Fierer
6. E. Bååth
7. Johan Six
8. P. Brookes

In Environmental Engineering

1. J. Rousk
2. Y. Kuzyakov
3. Serita Frey
4. Johan Six
5. E. Blagodatskaya
6. Noah Fierer
7. John E. Sawyer
8. A. S. Grandy

In Soil Science

1. Y. Kuzyakov
2. J. Rousk
3. E. Blagodatskaya
4. Serita Frey
5. E. Bååth
6. Johan Six
7. Noah Fierer
8. P. Brookes

Citations in the corpus

• Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency (2011, background): “All rights reserved. and Weintraub, 2003; Thiet et al., 2006) but fundamental to soil and therefore ecosystem C and N cycling (Burgin et al., 2011).”
• Microbial community utilization of added carbon substrates in response to long-term carbon input manipulation (2006, background): “Altering root and coarse woody debris (CWD) inputs to soil is one method to examine the feedbacks between plants, microbes, and soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics (Nadelhoffer et al., 2004).”
• Altered patterns of soil carbon substrate usage and heterotrophic respiration in a pine forest with elevated CO2 and N fertilization (2008, background): “Because the efficiency with which microorganisms use C substrates varies greatly (del Giorgio & Cole, 1998; Frey et al., 2001; Thiet et al., 2006), we would expect shifting levels of activity among microbial groupings to result in altered microbial growth efficiency as well.”
• Microbial hotspots and hot moments in soil: Concept & review (2015, background): “6 (Thiet et al., 2006).”
• Contrasting Soil pH Effects on Fungal and Bacterial Growth Suggest Functional Redundancy in Carbon Mineralization (2009, background): “decoupling by variable growth efficiency (60, 61), i.”
• Relationship between Soil Organic Carbon Stocks and Clay Content under Different Climatic Conditions in Central China (2018, background): “Models [63] and empirical [64] studies have highlighted the fact that C tends to be allocated to microbial growth rather than lost via respiration and extracellular enzymes as TN is increased, leading to decreased respiration and an increased accumulation of organic C [57].”
• Plant genotype strongly modifies the structure and growth of maize rhizosphere microbial communities (2010, result): “The results are not consistent with the fact that organic fertilizers with higher C:N ratios enhance fungal growth (Thiet et al., 2006).”
• Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept (2015, background): “Consistent with this conceptualization of plant litter effects on SOM stabilization, mineral nutrient additions including N fertilizer can also enhance microbial biomass and microbial use efficiency of plant litter, thereby increasing the transfer of plant litter to total SOM and physicochemically s”
• Interactions between uptake of amino acids and inorganic nitrogen in wheat plants (2011, background): “7 within the first days of decomposition (Parton et al., 1987; Steinweg et al., 2008; Thiet et al., 2006).”
• Searching for unifying principles in soil ecology (2009, background): “:P ratio of soil microbial biomass is surprisingly well-constrained across ecosystems (Cleveland and Liptzin, 2007) and microbial communities with very different fungal:bacterial ratios can have very similar growth yield efficiencies (Six et al., 2006; Thiet et al., 2006).”