Ergosterol and microbial biomass relationship in soil
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Ergosterol and microbial biomass C were measured in 26 arable, 16 grassland and 30 forest soils. The ergosterol content ranged from 0.75 to 12.94 micrograms g-1 soil. The geometric mean ergosterol content of grassland and forest soils was around 5.5 micrograms g-1, that of the arable soils 2.14 micrograms g-1. The ergosterol was significantly correlated with biomass C in the entire group of soils, but not in the subgroups of grassland and forest soils. The geometric mean of the ergosterol:microbial biomass C ratio was 6.0 mg g-1, increasing in the order grassland (5.1), arable land (5.4) and woodland (7.2). The ergosterol:microbial biomass C ratio had a strong negative relationship with the decreasing cation exchange capacity and soil pH, indicating that the fungal part of the total microbial biomass in soils increased when the buffer capacity decreased. The average ergosterol concentration calculated from literature data was 5.1 mg g-1 fungal dry weight. Assuming that fungi contain 46% C, the conversion factor from micrograms ergosterol to micrograms fungal biomass C is 90. For soil samples, neither saponification of the extract nor the more effective direct saponification during extraction seems to be really necessary.
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Saprotrophic fungal biomass is remarkably low in arable soils, in particular in intensively managed arable land.
“In contrast to many soils in natural ecosystems, saprotrophic fungal biomass is remarkably low in arable soils, in particular in intensively managed arable land (Djajakirana et al., 1996;van der Wal et al., 2006a;de Vries and Bardgett, 2012).”
From The hidden potential of saprotrophic fungi in arable soil: Patterns of short-term stimulation by organic amendments (2020) · cites this paper as Djajakirana et al., 1996
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- Authors
- Djajakirana, G., Joergensen, R. G., & Meyer, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- Venue
- Biology and Fertility of Soils
- Published
- 1996-06
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 299-304
- ISSN
- 0178-2762 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-0789
- OpenAlex
- W1976479763
- Cited by
- 350
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 24 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 11.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Biology and Fertility of Soils (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Keywords
- ergosterol, soil microbial biomass carbon, fungal biomass, soil fungal biomass, soil cation exchange capacity, soil pH, arable soils, grassland soils, forest soils, saponification
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