Soil Microbial Activity at Different Drying Temperatures.

This experiment was designed to look at microbial respiration from different soils around Oklahoma by drying them at different temperatures and measuring carbon dioxide levels using the Solvita Method. Two categories of soil were compared; cultivated and uncultivated. The response from the uncultivated fields showed higher amounts of carbon dioxide in parts per million than the cultivated fields. The difference may be due to the fact that the cultivated fields had higher carbon dioxide release initially when the field was first disturbed and had dramatically decreased over time.