The Impact of Carbonate Texture on the Quantification of Total Porosity by Image Analysis

Date of Acceptance: 31/08/2015 The authors would like to thank Total E&P and BG Group for project funding and support and the Industry Technology Facilitator for enabling the collaborative development (grant number 3322PSD). The authors would also like to thank Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society and the College of Physical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen for partial financial support. Dougal Jerram, Raymi Castilla, Claude Gout, Frances Abbots and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their constructive comments and suggestions to improve the standard of this manuscript. The authors would also like to express their gratitude toJohn Still and Colin Taylor for technical assistance in the laboratory and Nick Timms (Curtin University) and Angela Halfpenny (CSIRO) for their assistance with the full thin section scanning equipment.

The Impact of Carbonate Texture on the Quantification of Total Porosity by Image Analysis

Date of Acceptance: 31/08/2015 The authors would like to thank Total E&P and BG Group for project funding and support and the Industry Technology Facilitator for enabling the collaborative development (grant number 3322PSD). The authors would also like to thank Aberdeen Formation Evaluation Society and the College of Physical Sciences at the University of Aberdeen for partial financial support. Dougal Jerram, Raymi Castilla, Claude Gout, Frances Abbots and an anonymous reviewer are thanked for their constructive comments and suggestions to improve the standard of this manuscript. The authors would also like to express their gratitude toJohn Still and Colin Taylor for technical assistance in the laboratory and Nick Timms (Curtin University) and Angela Halfpenny (CSIRO) for their assistance with the full thin section scanning equipment.

Short-term impact of soybean management on ammonia oxidizers in a Brazilian savanna under restoration as revealed by coupling different techniques

Acknowledgments The authors are very grateful to Mr. Fabiano Bielefeld Nardotto, owner of the Tabapuã dos Pireneus farm, for allowing our free movement around the farm and collection of soil samples, as well as providing information about soybean cultivation. The authors also thank Dr. Plínio de Camargo, who performed the isotopic analysis in the CENA laboratory at the University of São Paulo (USP). This work was supported by grants from the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), and Foundation for Research Support of Distrito Federal (FAP-DF).