Biomass of microbial communities in catenas of virgin and arable chernozems and gray forest soils

Abstract

The biomass of microbial communities was studied in catenas of virgin chernozems and dark-gray forest soils within the "Belogor’e" natural reserve and vicinal arable soils developed in the same geomorphological and lithological conditions. Living and active microbial biomass was estimated from the point of the phospholipid content and respiratory responses of cells to glucose amendment respectively