title: Seasonal variation of microbial populations and biomass in Tatachia grassland soils of Taiwan.
abstract: To investigate the seasonal variations of microbial ecology in grassland of Tatachia forest, soil properties, microbial populations, microbial biomass, and 16S rDNA clone library analysis were determined. The soil had temperatures 6.6-18.4 degrees C, pH 3.6-5.1, total organic carbon 1.11-10.68%, total nitrogen 0.18-0.78%, and C/N ratios 3.46-20.55. Each gram of dry soil contained bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, cellulolytic, phosphate-solubilizing microbes, and nitrogen-fixing microbes 4.54 x 10(4) to 3.79 x 10(7), 3.43 x 10(2) to 2.17 x 10(5), 5.74 x 10(3) to 3.76 x 10(6), 1.97 x 10(3) to 1.34 x 10(6), 8.49 x 10(2) to 5.59 x 10(5), and 3.86 x 10(2) to 3.75 x 10(5) CFU, respectively. Each gram of soil contained 117-2,482 microg of microbial biomass carbon, 23-216 microg of microbial biomass nitrogen and 9-29 microg of DNA. The microbial populations, microbial biomass, and DNA decreased stepwise with the depth of soil, and they had low values in winter seasons. The microbial populations, microbial biomass carbon, microbial biomass nitrogen, and DNA at the BW2 horizon were 8.42-17.84, 19.26-64.40, 16.84-61.11, and 31.03-46.26% of those at the O horizon, respectively. When analyzing 16S rDNA library, members of Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Firmicutes, candidate division TMI, candidate division TM7, Gammatimonadetes, and Verrucomicrobia were identified. Members of Proteobacteria (44.4%) and Acidobacteria (33.3%) dominated the clone libraries. Within the phylum Proteobacteria, alpha-, beta-, and gamma-Proteobacteria were most numerous, followed by delta-Proteobacteria.
authors: Institute of Microbiology and Biochemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.
authors: Shine-Tsern
authors: ST
authors: Cho
authors: Shu-Hsien
authors: SH
authors: Tsai
authors: Anita
authors: A
authors: Ravindran
authors: Ammaiyappan
authors: A
authors: Selvam
authors: Shang-Shyng
authors: SS
authors: Yang
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D018533:Biomass; D002244:Carbon / Q000032:analysis; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000032:analysis; D006109:Poaceae; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000032:analysis; D012621:Seasons; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013624:Taiwan
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D002244:Carbon; D009584:Nitrogen
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