Emergent Properties of Microbial Activity in Heterogeneous Soil Microenvironments: Different Research Approaches Are Slowly Converging, Yet Major Challenges Remain

Emergent Properties of Microbial Activity in Heterogeneous Soil Microenvironments: Different Research Approaches Are Slowly Converging, Yet Major Challenges Remain

Over the last 60 years, soil microbiologists have accumulated a wealth of experimental data showing that the bulk, macroscopic parameters (e.g., granulometry, pH, soil organic matter, and biomass contents) commonly used to characterize soils provide insufficient information to describe quantitativel...

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Main Authors: Philippe C. Baveye, Wilfred Otten, Alexandra Kravchenko, María Balseiro-Romero, Éléonore Beckers, Maha Chalhoub, Christophe Darnault, Thilo Eickhorst, Patricia Garnier, Simona Hapca, Serkan Kiranyaz, Olivier Monga, Carsten W. Mueller, Naoise Nunan, Valérie Pot, Steffen Schlüter, Hannes Schmidt, Hans-Jörg Vogel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
soil microbiology
biodiversity
upscaling
tomography
X-ray computed
NanoSIMS imaging
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01929/full

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