Abstract
Soil is known as one of the most capable microorganism survival habitats. Diverse heterotrophic microbial species in the earth and their complex network of connexions allow the cycling of micro and macronutrients in their soil environment. Demands are addressed by the maintenance of soil fertility for sustainable plant productivity. The diverse interrelationship of various agroecosystem elements, living or not, influence the resources of crops and plants. Soil organic matter is, however, affected by the inputs of plants and also its chemistry uniqueness in each ecosystem’s microbium. Although it is generally recognised that the Soil Microbiome is essential, its complexity remains small. This would improve our ability to increase agricultural productivity by recognising the microbial diversity. Each environment becomes something by the inputs from plants and their chemistry special with the culture of microbials. The function of the microbiome of the soil is very important. We realise that we have still a small grasp of its complexity. Intelligence thus the microbial diversity would increase our agricultural potential performance. The soil is generally recognised as one of the world’s most hostile biological ecosystems. The Antartica’s ice-free regions covering about 0.44% of the overall continental land area, shelter significant and complex macro-organism populations and in particular the microorganisms of the more “hospitable” maritime regions. Nutrient cycling and habitat maintenance in soils is primarily guided by the microbial populations, as is the case with the McMurdo Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land, in the most extreme non-maritime areas. Nitrogen transactions are an important part of the environment maintenance. Bacteria diazotrophic and archaeal taxa add up to the genetic capacity of the elements from the whole n cycle, and nitrification processes like the anammox reaction are included. In the ensuing growth season, N cycling may have a major effect on the soil microbial population in bioavailable nitrogen cycling as well as microbial dynamics during plant dormitory season. The biogeochemical effects on bioavailable N cycles were not well defined, despite frequent observations of seasonal changes in microbial community composition in forestry. Here we investigate the relationship between microbial dynamics in communities and bioavailable N dynamics in a cool temperate Low Forest one-year environment, with an eye to sleeping season. Subsequent peaks in winter and early spring were also correlated with NH4+, NO−3, and dissolved bio-N concentrations. These results suggest that successive growth of litter degraders, ammonifier, nitrifiers, and denitrifies in the dormant season drives the subsequent bioavailable N transformation. After summarizing the recent findings, the novel process N-cycle microbes were characterized. Also, we explored the environmental importance of population dynamics in N cycling microbes, which is critical to our understanding of ecosystem feature stabilisation.
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Shukla, S. et al. (2021). Ecological Perspectives on Soil Microbial Community Involved in Nitrogen Cycling. In: Cruz, C., Vishwakarma, K., Choudhary, D.K., Varma, A. (eds) Soil Nitrogen Ecology. Soil Biology, vol 62. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71206-8_3
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