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Microbial biomass

Appears in 6 processs and 7 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.

Top processes

Carbon priming, microbial efficiency and soil carbon sequestration

2 steps

Living soil system

1 step

Soil fauna

Soil food web energy transfer

1 step

Trophic cascades alter decomposer biomass

Biological uptake, litter return and mineralization

1 step

Microbial turnover and grazing release nutrients

Soil nitrogen mineralization and immobilization turnover

1 step

Microbial death, viral lysis and grazing return microbial N to the organic pool

Fauna fragment, graze and condition litter

1 step

Grazing keeps microbes growing and releases mineral N

Often found with

Soil fauna 3 Nematodes 3 Soil microbes 3 Protozoa 2 Ammonium 2 Earthworms 1 Mites and springtails 1 Litter 1 Predators 1 Microbial grazers 1 Microbes 1 Viruses 1

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