[Soil Biology] Phosphorus in Action Volume 26 || Solubilization of Phosphorus by Soil Microorganisms

✍ Scribed by Bünemann, Else; Oberson, Astrid; Frossard, Emmanuel

• Book ID: 120212831
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 353 KB
• Edition: 2011
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3642152716
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15271-9_7

✦ Synopsis

Phosphorus (P) is a finite resource which is essential for life. It is a limiting nutrient in many ecosystems but also a pollutant which can affect biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems and change the ecology of water bodies. This book collects the latest information on biological processes in soil P cycling, which to date have remained much less understood than physico-chemical processes. The methods section presents spectroscopic techniques and the characterization of microbial P forms, as well as the use of tracers, molecular approaches and modeling of soil-plant systems. The section on processes deals with mycorrhizal symbioses, microbial P solubilization, soil macrofauna, phosphatase enzymes and rhizosphere processes. On the system level, P cycling is examined for grasslands, arctic and alpine soils, forest plantations, tropical forests, and dryland regions. Further, P management with respect to animal production and cropping, and the interactions between global change and P cycling, are treated.