56, No. 2 (2011), pp. 725-733 (9 pages) We used phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) to determine microbial biomass and community structure in the sediments of eight boreal lakes with different loadings of ...

researchers linked microbial metabolism and nutrient availability to soil carbon cycling rates. In order to better understand the relationship between carbon cycling, nutrient availability ...

Then, to track how different plant derivatives moved through a bacterium’s metabolism, the researchers tagged individual carbon atoms ... build the microbe’s own biomass.

Microbial biomass is a clean, renewable energy source. It has the potential to significantly diversify and sustain future energy and transportation fuel requirements. A new paper (Bioresource ...

Alexandra Kravchenko, Michigan State University professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial ... way to put more carbon in soil is to have plants produce more biomass either as roots ...

A new study has shed light on how soil microorganisms, which are crucial to the carbon ... that microbial thermal adaptation, which is the ability of microorganisms to regulate their metabolism ...

Marine bacteria control the amount of CO2 stored in the oceans by swimming after and destroying sinking particles that might otherwise linger in the ocean for millennia.

As a measure of how effectively microbes convert carbon inputs into new biomass rather than releasing it as CO?, the researchers measured microbial carbon use efficiency. By analyzing microbial ...

The efficiency of microbial metabolism plays a vital role in determining the amount of organic carbon stored in soils worldwide, according to the research, which also calls for improved soil ...

Wilkes Honors College, in collaboration with Utrecht University, Netherlands, the University of Amsterdam, and The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), examined cell abundances, size, ...