Heavy metals suppress enzyme activity in the soil by 3-3.5 times and have especially prominent effect on the enzymes that support carbon and sulfur circulation. This was discovered by a soil scientist ...

The diversity of vegetation configuration is the key to ecological restoration in open-pit coal mine dump. However, the recovery outcomes of different areas with the same vegetation assemblage pattern ...

Soil microbes remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, revealing an overlooked pathway for storage in ...

An enzyme that can generate energy from hydrogen in the air could power future fuel cells or small generators. Soil bacteria that have evolved to consume hydrogen to make their energy take in about 60 ...

Microbial Ecology, Vol. 74, No. 1 (July 2017), pp. 89-105 (17 pages) Semi-arid and arid areas occupy about 33% of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little information is available about microbial ...

Soil extracellular enzymes catalyze soil biochemical processes, and the geographical patterns of their activities and stoichiometry can reflect soil microbial functional dynamics. In previous research ...

Yunnan sugar-apple yields are declining. Research shows combining 75% soil water capacity, moderate fertilizer (2083 kg/ha), ...

Iranian researchers discovered new bacteria, Bacillus spizizenii, that produce large amounts of a starch-breaking enzyme.