Assessment of soil microbial and enzyme activity in the rhizosphere zone under different land use/cover of a semiarid region, India

• Published in: Ecological processes Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 16
• Main Authors: Meena, Archana, Rao, K. S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.03.2021; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Abiotic factors; Acid phosphatase; Agricultural land; Biological activity; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Cellobiase; Clustering; Correlation; Dehydrogenase; Dehydrogenases; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; environmental factors; Enzymatic activity; Enzyme activity; Enzymes; Fertility; Forest management; Forests; Glucosidase; India; Land use; Land use changes, Soil microbes, Soil enzymes, Semiarid ecosystems, Land management practices; Land use management; Microbial activity; microbial carbon; Microorganisms; Mixed forests; nitrogen; Nutrient cycles; Organic matter; oxidoreductases; Parameters; Phosphatase; Prosopis; Prosopis juliflora; Respiration; Rhizosphere; Semi arid areas; Semiarid zones; Soil; soil carbon; soil enzymes; Soil fertility; Soil investigations; Soil moisture; Soil nutrients; Soil organic matter; soil quality; soil respiration; soil water; Substrates; Urease; vegetables; β-Glucosidase; India; Land use changes, Soil microbes, Soil enzymes, Semiarid ecosystems, Land management practices

Background Land use/cover and management practices are widely known to influence soil organic matter (S OM ) quality and quantity. The present study investigated the effect of different land use, i.e . , forests viz . mixed forest cover (MFC), Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC-dominated forest cover (PFC)...