decomposition

http://www.cfc.umt.edu/biogeochemistry/Pdfs/Wickings_2010_BGC.pdf

Management intensity alters decomposition via biological pathways
Kyle Wickings • A. Stuart Grandy • Sasha Reed • Cory Cleveland
Biogeochemistry

Substrate concentration and enzyme allocation can affect rates of microbial decomposition, German, Chacon, Allison. Ecology 2011.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21870621

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01611.x/pdf

I am a Ph. D. student interested in soil microbial community function and prairie restoration. Specifically, I am measuring the effects of soil aggregate size distribution and pore space distribution within aggregates on soil enzyme activity and organic matter turn-over. My field site, the Iowa State Comparison of Biofuel Systems (COBS) includes replicates of two planted prairie treatments (unfertilized and fertilized) in addition to several traditional cropping systems.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/cu3n376jh86114n5/

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03427.x/pdf

Nice general introduction
Good conceptual framework for fitting microbes into ecosystem processes