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A comparative assessment of the pools of fungal and bacterial biomass in dark humus forest soil has been performed using luminescent microscopy and cascade filtration. Cascade filtration indicates that the bacterial biomass is compatible to the fungal biomass (31–54% for bacteria and 46–69% for fungi) in the upper horizons of investigated soil. However, in the lower horizons, the bacterial biomass predominates (up to 69% at the depth of 100 cm). Thus, the cascade filtration method has made it possible to refine data on the bacterial biomass in the soil and to show for the first time that the biomass of bacteria is compatible to the biomass of fungi in the upper soil horizons and exceeds fungal biomass in the lower horizons. This method provides for a more accurate assessment of both the number and the biomass of bacteria, which allows revising the opinion of many soil microbiologists on the significant prevalence of fungal biomass in soils.
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The authors are grateful to M.Ya. Mel’nikov, Chief Researcher, V.I. Pergushov, Leading Researcher of the Chemical Faculty of Moscow State University, and to T.N. Pochatkova, Senior Researcher of the Soil Science Faculty of Moscow State University, for valuable advice and assistance in the work.
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This study was performed within the framework of the state assignment “Biodiversity and Cenotic Relationships of Soil Microorganisms in Terrestrial Ecosystems,” CITiS no. 115122210099-9.
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Polyanskaya, L.M., Yumakov, D.D., Tyugay, Z.N. et al. Fungi and Bacteria in the Dark-Humus Forest Soil. Eurasian Soil Sc. 53, 1255–1259 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229320090124
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