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The Role of Microflora in Terrestrial Sulfur Cycling

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Microfloral and faunal interactions in natural and agro-ecosystems

Part of the book series: Developments in Biogeochemistry ((DBGC,volume 3))

Abstract

In most ecosystems, S is considered to be a macronutrient whose concentration can be limiting to the existing biota (Nyborg 1978). Although sulfate represents the form of S which is most readily available to plants and microorganisms, it is now generally accepted that organic forms of S represent the major S component(s) in most terrestrial ecosystems (Freneyet al. 1972, Fitzgerald 1978, Davidet al. 1982). Soils generally contain between loo and 250 of total S as sulfatesulfur with the remainder as organic forms which are mostly carbon-bonded S and ester sulfates (Campbell 1975). Although the largest reservoirs of S, as well as their rates of transformation, are due to abiotic and microbial processes, the anthropogenic inputs (due almost exclusively to the combustion of fossil fuels and the smelting of ores) provide a substantial contribution of S to the atmosphere and thus to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Kellogget al. (1972) concluded that by A.D. 2000, the anthropogenic input of S to the atmosphere will exceed natural inputs in the Northern Hemisphere.

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