Frequent addition of wheat straw residues to soil enhances carbon mineralization rate

Aneja, 2006, Microbial colonization of beech and spruce litter – influence of decomposition site and plant litter species on the diversity of the microbial community, Microbial Ecology, 52, 127, 10.1007/s00248-006-9006-3 Bailey, 2002, Fungal-to-bacterial ratios in soils investigated for enhanced C sequestration, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 34, 997, 10.1016/S0038-0717(02)00033-0 Bertrand, 2007, Carbon and nitrogen mineralization in acidic, limed and calcareous agricultural soils: apparent and actual effects, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 39, 276, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.07.016 Cahyani, 2002, Succession of microbiota estimated by phospholipid fatty acid analysis and changes in organic constituents during the composting process of rice straw, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 48, 735, 10.1080/00380768.2002.10409264 Cookson, 2004, Quantifying the contribution of dissolved organic matter to soil nitrogen cycling using 15N isotopic dilution, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36, 2097, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.05.013 De Nobili, 2001, Soil microbial biomass is triggered into activity by trace amounts of substrate, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 33, 1163, 10.1016/S0038-0717(01)00020-7 De Nobili, 2006, Microbial biomass dynamics in recently air-dried and rewetted soils compared to others stored air-dry for up to 103 years, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 38, 2871, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.04.044 Demoling, 2007, Comparison of factors limiting bacterial growth in different soils, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 39, 2485, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.002 Fierer, 2003, A proposed mechanism for the pulse in carbon dioxide production commonly observed following the rapid rewetting of a dry soil, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 67, 798, 10.2136/sssaj2003.0798 Franzluebbers, 1994, Carbon and nitrogen mineralization from cowpea plant parts decomposing in moist and in repeatedly dried and wetted soil, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 26, 1379, 10.1016/0038-0717(94)90221-6 Frostegård, 1993, Phospholipid fatty acid composition, biomass, and activity of microbial communities from two soil types experimentally exposed to differing heavy metals, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 59, 3605, 10.1128/AEM.59.11.3605-3617.1993 Gunnarson, 2008, Influence of non-cellulose structural carbohydrate composition on plant material decomposition in soil, Biology and Fertility of Soils, 45, 27, 10.1007/s00374-008-0303-5 Henrikson, 1970, Automatic methods for determining nitrate and nitrite in water and soil extracts, Analyst, 95, 514, 10.1039/an9709500514 Hoyle, 2008, Microbial response to the addition of glucose in low-fertility soils, Biology and Fertility of Soils, 44, 571, 10.1007/s00374-007-0237-3 Isbell, 1996 Kandeler, 2007, Physiological and biochemical methods for studying soil biota and their function, 53 Killham, 1994 Kuzyakov, 2000, Review of mechanisms and quantification of priming effects, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 32, 1485, 10.1016/S0038-0717(00)00084-5 Meidute, 2008, Antogonistic and synergistic effects of fungal and bacterial growth in soil after adding different carbon and nitrogen sources, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40, 2334, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.05.011 Mondini, 2006, Soil microbial biomass activation by trace amounts of readily available substrate, Biology and Fertility of Soils, 42, 542, 10.1007/s00374-005-0049-2 Moritsuka, 2004, Biotic and abiotic processes of nitrogen immobilization in the soil-residue interface, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36, 1141, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.02.024 Oehl, 2001, Organic phosphorus mineralization studies using isotopic dilution techniques, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 65, 780, 10.2136/sssaj2001.653780x Page, 1982, Chemical and microbiological properties Paterson, 2008, Labile and recalcitrant plant fractions are utilized by distinct microbial communities in soil: independent of the presence of roots and mycorrhizal fungi, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 40, 1103, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.12.003 Rantalainen, 2004, Influence of resource quality on the composition of soil decomposer community in fragmented and continuous habitat, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36, 1983, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.05.017 Searle, 1984, The Berthelot or indophenol reaction and its use in the analytical chemistry of nitrogen. A review, Analyst, 109, 549, 10.1039/an9840900549 Stemmer, 2007, Linking dynamics of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids to carbon mineralization in a 13C natural abundance experiment: impact of heavy metals and acid rain, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 39, 3177, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.07.013 Tanahashi, 2004, Microbial communities responsible for the decomposition of rice straw compost in a Japanese rice paddy field determined by phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 50, 1229, 10.1080/00380768.2004.10408598 Trinsoutrot, 2000, Biochemical quality of crop residues and carbon and nitrogen mineralization kinetics under non-limiting nitrogen conditions, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 64, 918, 10.2136/sssaj2000.643918x Trinsoutrot, 2000, C and N fluxes of decomposing 13C and 15N Brassica napus L.: effects of residue composition and N content, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 32, 1717, 10.1016/S0038-0717(00)00090-0 Vance, 1987, An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 19, 703, 10.1016/0038-0717(87)90052-6 Wang, 2004, Decomposition of plant materials in relation to nitrogen availability and biochemistry determined by NMR and wet-chemical analysis, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36, 2045, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.05.023 Xu, 2006, The role of plant residues in pH change of acid soils differing in initial pH, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 38, 709, 10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.06.022 Yan, 2006, Soil pH dynamics after incorporation of fresh and oven-dried plant shoot materials of faba bean and wheat, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 169, 506, 10.1002/jpln.200520567 Zak, 2000, Atmospheric CO2, soil-N availability, and allocation of biomass and nitrogen by Populus tremuloides, Ecological Applications, 10, 34 Zelles, 1995, Discrimination of microbial diversity by fatty acid profiles of phospholipids and lipo-polysaccharides in differently cultivated soils, Plant and Soil, 170, 115, 10.1007/BF02183059