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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Applied and Environmental Soil Science Volume 2012, Article ID 593623, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2012/593623 Research Article Effects of Monoculture, Crop Rotation, and Soil Moisture Content on Selected Soil Physicochemical and Microbial Parameters in Wheat Fields A. Marais,1 M. Hardy,1 M. Booyse,2 and A. Botha3 1 Western Cape Department of Agriculture, Institute for Plant Production, Private Bag X1, Elsenburg 7607, South Africa 2 Biometry Unit, Agricultural Research Council, Private Bag X5013, Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa 3 Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa Correspondence should be addressed to A. Marais, aneliam@ Received 28 June 2012; Accepted 28 August 2012 Academic Editor: D. L. Jones Copyright © 2012 A. Marais et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Different plants are known to have different soil microbial communities associated with them. Agricultural management practices such as fertiliser and pesticide addition, crop rotation, and grazing animals can lead to different microbial communities in the associated agricultural soils. Soil dilution plates, most-probable-number (MPN), community level physiological profiling (CLPP), and buried slide technique as well as some measured soil physicochemical parameters were used to determine changes during the growing season in the ecosystem profile in wheat fields subjected to wheat monoculture or wheat in annual rotation with medic/clover pasture. Statistical analyses showed that soil moisture had an over-riding effect on seasonal fluctuations in soil