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EFFECT OF WATER AVAILABILITY ON SOIL MICROBIAL BIOMASS IN SECONDARY FOREST IN EASTERN AMAZONIA

Lívia Gabrig Turbay Rangel-Vasconcelos, Daniel Jacob Zarin, Francisco de Assis Oliveira, Steel Silva Vasconcelos, Cláudio José Reis de Carvalho, Maria Marly de Lourdes Silva Santos

01/Mar/2015

Soil microbial biomass (SMB) plays an important role in nutrient cycling in agroecosystems, and is limited by several factors, such as soil water availability. This study assessed the effects of soil water availability on microbial biomass and its variation over time in the Latossolo Amarelo concrecionário of a secondary forest in eastern Amazonia. The fumigation-extraction method was used to estimate the soil microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen content (SMBC and SMBN). An adaptation of the fumigation-incubation method was used to […]