Open AccessMeasuring methods for soil microbial activity and biomass
Author(s) -
Helvi HeinTanski,
Aila Mettälä,
Riitta Silvo
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
agricultural and food science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.347
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1795-1895
pISSN - 1459-6067
DOI - 10.23986/afsci.72172
Subject(s) - biomass (ecology) , metabolic activity , environmental science , microbial population biology , biology , ecology , biological system , bacteria , genetics
The determining for the numbers of different soil microbial groups has some technical difficulties because of biological reasons. Therefore the measuring of cell components or metabolic activity of soil micro-organisms is often preferred. The different measuring methods for determining the numbers of micro-organisms or microbial cell components or microbial enzymatic activities will be shortly reviewed.