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Soddy-podzolic, gray forest, brown forest, primitive Antarctic soils, typical chernozems, and solonchaks were studied. Many ultrafine bacterial cells, along with fine ones, were found in all the soils studied. The gray forest, brown forest, and primitive Antarctic soils were especially distinguished in this respect. Formerly, in the works on soil microbiology, the fact of the cell size reduction was insufficiently taken into account because of the absence of reliable methods. A decrease in the number and biomass of bacteria down the profile in all the soils, except for the solonchak, was shown. In the solonchak, the bacterial number and biomass increases with decreasing salinity of the soil horizons. The bacterial biomass mainly depends on the predominance of cells of definite sizes (0.38 and 0.23 μm). In the B1fungi horizon of the primitive Antarctic soil, a considerable number of large (1.85 μm) bacterial cells was recorded, and this resulted in the maximal microbial biomass in this horizon. The data on the average volume of a cell correlate with those on the number and biomass of bacteria. The largest diameters of cells were registered in the humus and B1fungi horizons of the primitive Antarctic soil.
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Original Russian Text © L.M. Polyanskaya, I.P. Pinchuk, D.G. Zvyagintsev, 2015, published in Pochvovedenie, 2015, No. 3, pp. 330–336.
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Polyanskaya, L.M., Pinchuk, I.P. & Zvyagintsev, D.G. Assessment of the number, biomass, and cell size of bacteria in different soils using the “cascade” filtration method. Eurasian Soil Sc. 48, 288–293 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229315030096
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