A tale of two theories, a chronosequence and a bioindicator of soil quality

• Main Authors: Wardle, David A., Ghani, Anwar
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biomarkers; Soil Quality; Science::Biological sciences::Ecology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89843; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50469
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this Citation Classics commentary, we reflect upon a paper that we published in Soil Biology & Biochemistry in 1995 and that provided a critical assessment of the use of the microbial metabolic quotient (qCO2 or the ratio of microbial respiration to biomass) as a bioindicator of soil quality....