Micromorphological and Chemical Approaches to Understand Changes in Ecological Functions of Metal-Impacted Soils under Various Land Uses
Figure 3
(a) Intensively decomposed soil organic matter from the C1 horizon in natural site; (b) Excrements of micro arthropods inside a litter fragment in an early state of decomposition from the A horizon in natural site; (c) Fugal hyphae penetrating into organic remains from A horizon in urban site; (d) Recent excrements of arthropods from the A horizon in urban soil; (e) Slightly decomposed soil organic matter from the A horizon in industrial site; (f) Fugal hyphae penetrating into fossilized remains of soil organic from the C2 horizon in industrial site.
