Diversity, Abundance, and Some Characteristics of Bacteria Isolated from Earth Material Consumed by Wild Animals at Kudurs in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russia

Table 2

Abundance of predominant physiological groups of bacteria in earth materials.

Physiological groups of bacteria, cells/g	Ugolniy-1		Ugolniy-2	Shanduy
	U-1	U-2	U-3	Sh-1
Saprophytic bacteria, aerobes	6.4 × 10^4	5.2 × 10^4	9.7 × 10^4	8.7 × 10^4
Saprophytic bacteria, anaerobes	1.3 × 10^4	7.8 × 10^3	7.7 × 10^4	1.2 × 10^4
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria	4.1 × 10^3	7.4 × 10^3	3.2 × 10^4	0
Ammonifying bacteria	3.0 × 10^4	1.5 × 10^4	8.1 × 10^3	1.1 × 10^4
Heterotrophic nitrifiers	5.9 × 10^4	3.2 × 10^4	8.4 × 10^4	1.2 × 10^3
Denitrifiers	4.5 × 10^3	2.5 × 10^2	4.5 × 10^2	5.5 × 10^2
Sulfur-reducing bacteria	0	0	2.5 × 10^2	1.5 × 10^5
Iron-oxidizing bacteria, heterotrophs	2.7 × 10^2	0	1.4 × 10^2	6.1 × 10^3
Manganese-oxidizing bacteria, heterotrophs	0.4 × 10^2	1.5 × 10^4	6.1 × 10^2	4.1 × 10^3
Silicate bacteria	2.2 × 10^4	1.2 × 10^4	1.1 × 10^4	1.0 × 10^4