title: Effect of soil microstructure on the relationship between the intensity of nitrification and soil moisture.
abstract: The relationship between the logarithm of nitrification intensity and moisture (expressed as pF) did not have an ideal linear course in structural soils in which pores of a certain size predominated. When increasing the incubation moisture it could be observed that the intensity of nitrification decreases at pF 3.5-4.4 and increases again on further increasing the incubation moisture. The detected anomaly was observed when applying moistures corresponding to peaks of derivation pF-curves. It can be assumed that the relationship between the intensity of nitrification and moisture is modified by soil microstructure; therefore, this relationship was studied in more detail in the present communication.
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000378:metabolism*; D009566:Nitrates / Q000378:metabolism*; D009573:Nitrites / Q000378:metabolism*; D010316:Particle Size; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis*; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D014867:Water / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D009566:Nitrates; D009573:Nitrites; D012987:Soil; D014867:Water