The influence of ant biopores (Pheidole sp) on hydrological properties in agricultural environments in the Western Australian wheatbelt

Title
The influence of ant biopores (Pheidole sp) on hydrological properties in agricultural environments in the Western Australian wheatbelt
Publication Date
1994
Author(s)
Lobry De Bruyn, Lisa
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0173-2863
Email: llobryde@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:llobryde
Editor
Editor(s): C E Pankhurst, B M Doube, V V S R Gupta, and P R Grace
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
CSIRO Publishing
Place of publication
Melbourne, Australia
UNE publication id
une:22663
Abstract
The cloning of lux genes from luminescent marine bacteria into soil microorganisms provides a powerful means of studying the ecology of microbial inocula introduced into soil. This paper demonstrates the use of bioluminescence-marked inocula to study a range of ecological interactions in soil including microbial competition (competition for resources in soil caused reduced light output per cell), bacterial colonisation of the rhizosphere spatially characterised at the population and single cell level by Charge Coupled Device enhanced microscopy) and protozoa/ predation of microbial prey (ciliates selectively grazed bacterial cells with high light output activity). These examples illustrate the unique attributes of bioluminescence in microbial ecology to facilitate more effective manipulation of soil/plant/microbe interactions in farming systems.
Link
Citation
Soil Biota - Management in Sustainable Farming Systems., p. 63-66
ISBN
0643055983
9780643055988
Start page
63
End page
66

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