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This paper presents a review of the results of the estimation of microbial biomass in the soils of burned and unburned Japanese red pine forests, and discusses the effects of fire on soil microbial biomass and the role of microbial biomass in the early stages of the secondary succession after fires. Microbial biomass in the mineral soil layer at burned sites with different years after fires were similar to that at the unburned site. This indicates fire did not affect the size of the microbial biomass in the mineral soil layer quantitatively. From the results that microbial biomass in burned soils contained a substantial amount of nutrients, it follows that soil microbial biomass can act as a nutrient pool available for plants which grow in the secondary succession after fires.
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Tateishi, T. (1998). The Role of Soil Microbial Biomass in Burned Japanese Red Pine Forest. In: Sassa, K. (eds) Environmental Forest Science. Forestry Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5324-9_28
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