Indication of Importance of Including Soil Microbial Characteristics into Biotope Valuation Method.

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/44555601:13520/16:43887645

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8030253" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8030253</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8030253" target="_blank" >10.3390/su8030253</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Indication of Importance of Including Soil Microbial Characteristics into Biotope Valuation Method.

Original language description

Soil is a key part of a biotope and microorganisms are dominant components contributing to soil functions. Conversely, established methods for valuation of biotopes according to Natura 2000 rely predominantly on the communities living on the surface. Here, we aimed to assess soil microbial biomass and community structure on five localities with range of biotope values by means of phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) profiling. PLFA figures were affected both by sampling season (spring vs. autumn) and locality. In spring, the living microbial biomass (estimated by PLFA(tot)) exhibited poor correlation to biotope values. These were, on the contrary, correlated to trans/cis PLFA, an indicator of microbial stress, (i.e., lower stress in higher-rated biotopes), and fungal/bacterial PLFA (i.e., higher-rated biotopes contained more fungi). The attempt to model biotope values from microbial characteristics explained a maximum of 50% of the variability; the best predictors were the trans/cis stress indicator, percentage of actinobacterial PLFA, and ratio of PLFA of Gram-positive to Gram-negative bacteria. These results show that soil microbial characteristics present partly new information and indicate the need to amend the procedures of biotope assessment. Soil PLFA profiling could serve as suitable methods for this purpose.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DJ - Pollution and water control

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sustainability

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000373800600008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84961905491