MEASUREMENT OF MICROBIAL BIOMASS PHOSPHORUS IN SOIL
MEASUREMENT OF MICROBIAL BIOMASS PHOSPHORUS IN SOIL
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DOI:
10.1016/0038-0717(82)90001-3
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
9.7
通讯作者:
JENKINSON, DS
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作者:
BROOKES, PC;POWLSON, DS;JENKINSON, DS
A method for measuring the amount of P held in soil microorganisms (biomass P) is described and the assumptions on which it is based are discussed. Biomass P in calculated from the difference between the amount of inorganic P (Pi) extracted by 0.5 M NaHCO3 (pH 8.5) from fresh soil fumigated with CHCl3 and the amount extracted from unfumigated soil. Some CHCl3-released Pi is sorbed by soil during fumigation and extraction: an approximate allowance for this is made by incorporating a known quantity of Pi during extraction and correcting for recovery. Most of the P released is in inorganic form and the proportion increases with duration of fumigation. Non-microbial P is little, if at all, affected by fumigation. Microbial biomass P is calculated from CHCl3-released Pi by dividing by 0.4, i.e., by assuming that 40% of the P in the biomass is rendered extractable as Pi by CHCl3. Measurements of biomass P must be done in fresh soil; CHCl3 releases much less P in air-dry soil.