Methods and Materials
The software used to perform statistics.
What is RStudio?
The guild of fungi involved in wood decay.
What are saprotrophic fungi?
This phylum of fungi actually benefits from liming.
What is Zygomycota?
Thermomonosporaceae and Methylocystaceae, which both declined in limed sites, are families in this kingdom.
What is bacteria?
In 2009, 60% of the trees in the site were associated with this kind of fungal relationship.
What is ectomycorrhizal?
An application that increases the pH of soil.
What is liming?
The master variable that structures microbial soil community, more than organic matter and quality.
What is pH?
Ectomycorrhizal fungi were _______ correlated with pH.
What is negative?
The US state where the experimental site was located.
What is New York.
The majority of Earth's humid forests occur on this type of soil (pH).
What is acidic?
This study demonstrated liming-driven changes in microbial community structure corresponded to accumulation of this material.
What is forest floor organic material?
The two basidiomycete genera most heavily affected by liming.
What are Russula And Amanita?
The three dominant tree species in the experimental site.
What is American beech, red maple and yellow birch?
Plant biomass that consists of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin.
What is lignocellulose?
These two variables at limed sites were not affected by liming.
What are leaf litter production and tree biomass?
Liming increased the concentration of these two minerals in the soil.
What are calcium and magnesium?
The microbial biomass carbon (MBC) pool was estimated using this technique.
What is substrate induced respiration (SIR)?
The symbols for the humified layer and the fermenting layer of the soil.
What are Oa and Oe?
The cause of beech biomass declines in both limed and controlled sites.
What is beech bark disease? (The result of infection by a combination of a beech scale insect and a nectria fungus!)
These processes were suppressed in limed soils.
What are microbial respiration and extracellular enzyme activity?