Plant species and season influence soil physicochemical properties and microbial function in a semi-arid woodland ecosystem

Eslaminejad, Parasto; Heydari, Mehdi; Kakhki, Fatemeh Valizadeh; Mirab-balou, Majid; Omidipour, Reza; Muñoz‐Rojas, Miriam; Lucas‐Borja, Manuel Esteban

doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04691-1

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“…It is known that plants directly modify the environment of other plants by competing for resources like water or light or by facilitative mechanisms such as amelioration of extreme temperatures or increasing resource availability such as nutrients (Caldeira et al, 2014). Moreover, trees and shrubs have indirect effects on soils through plant remains reaching the soil surface (in particular litter and root exudates) and nutrient uptake, which influence soil biogeochemical processes (Camping et al, 2002;Kooch et al, 2017;Eslaminejad et al, 2020). The higher structural and functional forest complexity found at HF seems to have enhanced litterfall inputs, increased nutrient content and soil organic matter accumulation on the forest floor (Lucas-Borja et al 2016), consequently favoring the nutrient and C cycling functions.…”

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Diverging consequences of past forest management on plant and soil attributes in ancient oak forests of southwestern Iran

Heydari

Roshan

Lucas‐Borja

et al. 2021

Forest Ecology and Management

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The oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) semiarid forests of western Iran are among the oldest and host a remarkable diversity. However, the originally high forests were largely converted to coppices and submitted to a long history of traditional management and human disturbances. We investigated the effect of past management and forest structure on soil properties and vegetation diversity on two forest systems: coppice-with-standards stands abandoned after an intense period of exploitation (CWS) and high forest stands (HF) submitted to a low intensity of management. We selected in each system three 1-2 ha stands and sampled 30 plots to measure vegetation diversity, forest structure using structural indices and, main soil factors including bulk density, nutrients, organic carbon and porosity. We found a higher species diversity in HF than in CWS with respectively 7 woody species in the former and only 4 in the latter as well as a higher structural complexity. Plant composition differed also between the two systems and multivariate analyses revealed clear associations between vegetation composition and soil factors in particular soil nutrients, soil porosity for HF and bulk density and texture for CWS. In fact, contents in soil nutrients were higher in HF than in CWS for total nitrogen (0.28 vs 0.15 %), available phosphorus (22.82 vs 15.47 ppm), available nitrogen (0.28 vs 0.15 ppm), and organic matter (2.58 vs 1.61 %) whereas soils of CWS showed a higher bulk density (1.39 vs 1.29) and a lower porosity (47.66 vs 51.50 %). This study thus revealed the legacy of the past forest management actions on the different components of the forest ecosystem. We concluded that the conservative management in high forests was more favourable for the protection of soil and vegetation diversity than in the traditional coppicing system.

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Section: Soil Properties and Stand Structural Features Between The Two Oak Forest Typesmentioning

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Diverging consequences of past forest management on plant and soil attributes in ancient oak forests of southwestern Iran

Heydari

Roshan

Lucas‐Borja

et al. 2021

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…It has been demonstrated that changes in composition and diversity of soil microbial communities are guided by changes in the diversity and functional types of plants ( Schlatter et al, 2015 ; Delgado-Baquerizo et al, 2017 ; Ding et al, 2020 ). Moreover, seasonal variations can also significantly give rise to changes in plant growth and soil nutrients by affecting plant physiological functions and further influencing soil microbial community composition ( Siles et al, 2017 ; Eslaminejad et al, 2020 ). However, it is less known whether the diversity of soil microbial communities in natural forested wetland ecotones are more dependent on vegetation or seasonal variations.…”

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The characteristics of soil microbial co-occurrence networks across a high-latitude forested wetland ecotone in China

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Zhao

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Front. Microbiol.

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To understand the effect of seasonal variations on soil microbial communities in a forested wetland ecotone, here, we investigated the dynamics of the diversities and functions of both soil bacterial and fungal communities inhabiting three wetland types (forested wetland, shrub wetland and herbaceous vegetation wetland) from forest-wetland ecotone of northern Xiaoxing’an Mountains spanning different seasons. β-diversity of soil microbial communities varied significantly among different vegetation types (Betula platyphylla–Larix gmelinii, Alnus sibirica, Betula ovalifolia, and Carex schmidtii wetlands). We totally detected 34 fungal and 14 bacterial indicator taxa among distinctive groups by using Linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe) analysis, and identified nine network hubs as the most important nodes detected in whole fungi, bacteria, and fungi–bacteria networks. At the vegetation type-level, bacterial and fungal microbiome living in C. schmidtii wetland soil possessed fewer positive interactions and lower modularity than those in other types of wetland soil. Furthermore, we also discovered that ectomycorrhizal fungi were dominant in the fungal microbiota existing in forested and shrub wetland soils, whereas arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi were predominated in those residing in herbaceous vegetation wetland soil. The distribution of the predicted bacterial functional enzymes also obviously varied among different vegetation-types. In addition, the correlation analysis further revealed that the key fungal network modules were significantly affected by the contents of total N and soil water-soluble K, whereas most of the bacterial network modules were remarkably positively driven by the contents of total N, soil water-soluble K, Mg and Na. Our study suggested that vegetation type are substantive factors controlling the diversity, composition and functional group of soil microbiomes from forest-wetland ecotone of northern Xiaoxing’an Mountains.

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“…A microbiota do solo, por suas características como a abundância e atividade bioquímica e metabólica, proporcionam respostas mais rápidas a mudanças no ambiente, com maior antecedência do que indicadores químicos e físicos (ALVES, 2018;ARAÚJO;MONTEIRO, 2007;RECH et al, 2013). De acordo com Eslaminejad et al (2020), os indicadores de atividades enzimáticas relacionadas aos ciclos de carbono, nitrogênio ou fósforo da biomassa microbiana e respiração basal são confiáveis para avaliação da qualidade do solo. Estes indicadores são ferramentas que podem direcionar planejamentos e a avaliação de práticas de manejo (MATSUOKA; MENDES; LOUREIRO, 2003).…”

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“…Muitas enzimas desempenham funções essenciais no solo, como a de catalisar reações biológicas e químicas e de promover, por exemplo, a mineralização do fósforo orgânico do solo e a decomposição da matéria orgânica e do nitrogênio (ESLAMINEJAD et al, 2020). A arilsulfatase, por exemplo, hidrolisa ésteres de sulfato e é uma enzima essencial para a mineralização de enxofre orgânico do solo.…”

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Plant species and season influence soil physicochemical properties and microbial function in a semi-arid woodland ecosystem

Cited by 28 publications

References 97 publications

Diverging consequences of past forest management on plant and soil attributes in ancient oak forests of southwestern Iran

Diverging consequences of past forest management on plant and soil attributes in ancient oak forests of southwestern Iran

The characteristics of soil microbial co-occurrence networks across a high-latitude forested wetland ecotone in China

Indicadores de qualidade do solo em sistemas agroecológicos no Cerrado Mineiro

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