Soil microarthropods have a pivotal role in soil nitrogen cycling in that they affect microbial decomposers. A high abundance of microarthropods may increase the mobility of inorganic nitrogen ions in ...

Soil mesofauna can affect nutrient cycling, seed germination, root exudates and plant nutrient allocation and growth Awareness of soil-borne bacteria benefits is growing. Prairie farmers increasingly ...

Department of Soil Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The feeding experiments were conducted in Petri dish (diameter 6 cm) with a <5 mm layer of plaster of Paris and activated ...