Talk:Soil Environment

Hi everybody- great job overall. I have listed a few suggestions for your site: In the CEC section, I’m pretty sure soils (mineral surfaces) are negatively charged and microbes are positively charged. –It might be a good idea to just briefly define under each section soil texture, soil pores, and soil structure.—for the soil water section, you may want to include that it is a necessary habitat for some microbes (which types?).—for the temperature section, you have described Q10, you may want to introduce the term here.—You may want to combine the “soil structure” and “aggregate” section somehow.—You may want to change the section heading “PGRP” to just rhizobacteria, since you also have DRMO’s included in this section. I think some pictures would be great too. Heather

Good broad covering of the subject. One suggestion I would have is possibly taking the information under "Organism Intertaions" and making a distinct chart. That way it's visually pleasing and sets the information apart. kamackey

Maybe this could use some pictures? Maybe the organisms u talked about, or the rhizobia. Just something to make it pretty. -David La ````Dtla 02:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I have heard that anion exchange capacity (not as significant as cec) can play a role in soil environments. If true you may want to add a short section regarding this.Njppatel 18:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

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Also you may want to add a section about how aggregates get formed, other than that the information is greatNjppatel 18:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

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A suggestion: since you are looking at soil environ/physic factors, rather than a specific cycle or special environment, you get to be more creative with your relevant organisms. Some that I can think of, though, are ones that build soil structure (e.g. make polysaccharides, hyphae formers), as well as those extemophiles that tolerate really low and high pH, low and high temperature, osmotic extemists. Should be fun. Kate Scow 01:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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I suggest replacing microflora with "interactions with other microorganisms".----Kate Scow

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Bioavailability :

Definition of bioavailability is not quite right. You can go to book and lecture notes, or other sites, and develop better definition.---Kate

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It seems your section on relevant microorganisms has disappeared. Please add it back and complete that part of the assignment. Irina C 02:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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Irina C 18:48, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

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Hi soil environment group. Please use section formats as in the template. You're the first group to start! great!!

Irina C 04:58, 28 January 2008 (UTC)