Soil microbial community responses to windthrow disturbance in Tatra National Park (Slovakia) during the period 2006 – 2013 / Odozva pôdneho mikrobiálneho spoločenstva na veternú kalamitu v Tatranskom národnom parku (Slovensko) v období rokov 2006–2013

Gömöryová, Erika; Fleischer, Peter; Gömöry, Dušan

doi:10.2478/forj-2014-0014

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“…It suggests a prolonged availability of readily decomposing organic matter and enhanced microbiological activity. Thus this confi rms data from longterm analysis (2006 -2013) of soil microbial communities after the 2004 windstorm (Gömöryová et al, 2014) as well as data recorded in our research plot after the 2014 storm (Gömöryová, unpublished data). She recorded signifi cant increase in richness and diversity of microbial community what resulted in increase of basal respiration and microbial biomass C fi ve months after the 2014 event when compared to data recorded from undisturbed plot in 2013.…”

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Windstorms as mediator of soil nematode community changes: Evidence from European spruce forest

Renčo

Čerevková

2017

Helminthologia

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SummaryNematode communities in a Norway spruce forest in High Tatra National Park, Slovakia were monitored for the period of several years (2006 and 2013). Unfortunately, in May 2014 natural windstorm damaged the forest. This disastrous event, together with preliminary obtained results allowed us to compare the direct impact of windstorm damage of forest habitat on soil nematode assemblages. The forest destruction by windstorm had a signifi cant effect on the total nematode abundance, the abundance of omnivores and herbivores, as well as the nematode species diversity. The most dominant species, representing 55 % of the total nematode fauna, in the plot studied were Acrobeloides nanus followed by Malenchus exiguus, Filenchus vulgaris, Plectus communis, Plectus parvus and Tylencholaimus mirabilis. The abundance of bacterivorous signifi cantly increased after the windstorm, meanwhile the abundance of omnivores, fungivores, and herbivores ectoparasites and epidermal/root hair feeders showed an opposite trend. Of the evaluative indicators, Shannon species diversity (H'spp), maturity index (MI), maturity index 2-5 (MI2-5), sigma maturity index (∑MI), enrichment index (EI) and structure index (SI) decreased signifi cantly after windstorm. The EI and SI indexes characterized soil ecosystems before windstorm (2006 -2013) as maturing with low or moderate disturbance, but soil ecosystems shortly after the windstorm (2014) were degraded and nutrient depleted. This also corresponded with graphical display of metabolic footprints characteristics of soil food web. Overall, the nematode communities differed signifi cantly before and after forest damage. These results suggest the role of nematode communities as indicators of environment condition quality or its disruption.

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Windstorms as mediator of soil nematode community changes: Evidence from European spruce forest

Renčo

Čerevková

2017

Helminthologia

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“…The relations between disturbance events and soil microbial community responses were studied by Gömöryová et al [88] on windthrow plots in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia. They revealed the highest microbial activity and biomass in reference and fire plots with burnt organic matter in comparison with extracted and nonextracted plots.…”

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Soil Microbial Functional Diversity under the Single-Season Influence of Traditional Forest Management in a Sessile Oak Forest of Central Europe

Kučera

Holík

Rosíková

et al. 2021

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This one-year study focuses on the responses of a soil environment to the implementation of traditional forest management practices in oak–hornbeam stands with the following treatments: cut (C), cut + litter raking (CR), cut + grazing (CG), cut + litter raking + grazing (CRG) and control (Ctrl). The cut was conducted in 2018 through extremely heavy thinning. In autumn of 2017 and 2018, we sampled the soils, focusing on microbial functional diversity (FD) assessments using BIOLOG EcoplateTM. After one season, the FD was the highest in the Ctrl stand and the lowest in the CRG stand. Furthermore, we detected significant seasonal differences in soil reaction, nitrate nitrogen content, phosphatase activity and microbial biomass among the treatments. In particular, the Ctrl stand was defined via FD indices and biochemical and biological soil properties that contrasted mainly with those of the CRG stand defined by the content of mineral nitrogen forms. The soil properties did not differ substantially in the remaining treatments. Of the 31 carbon sources defining FD, 6 were treatment-specific (putrescine, L-arginine, L-serine, L-threonine, D-cellobiose and glycogen), while the remaining carbon sources mainly displayed either uniform high or low activity across the treatments.

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“…Wildfire may cause several short-and long-term changes in the landscape and in soil environments inhabited by many fungi. The effects of fire on the soil mycobiota are highly variable and depend on many environmental factors, such as the type of soil and vegetation, fire intensity and soil enrichment by released nutrients [22,51,94]. Wildfires, as well as other means of soil warming or heating, form favourable conditions for the occurrence and growth of heat-resistant species and probably also result in the diminishment of many mesophilic microorganisms.…”

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“…The disaster is counted among the 10 most terrible European wind calamities over the last 30 years [18]. At four internationally monitored localities (Figure 1), systematic ecological observations from many research fields were initiated to monitor climate and land-use changes [19], water repellence of forest soils [20], soil properties in relation to the determination of organic fractions and enzymatic activity [21], soil microbiology and microbial diversity [22,23], plant community structure and changes in vegetation cover [24], tree-ring reconstruction [25] and soil fauna changes [26]. microbiology and microbial diversity [22,23}, plant community structure and changes in vegetation cover [24], tree-ring reconstruction [25] and soil fauna changes [26].…”

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Soil Microbiota of Dystric Cambisol in the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) after Windthrow

et al. 2019

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There has been much more damage to forests in the Slovak Republic in the second half of the 20th century than to other European countries. Forested mountain massifs have become a filter of industrial and transportation emissions from abroad, as well as from domestic origins. There are not only acidic deposits of sulphur and heavy metals present in forest soils, but other additional environmental problems, such as climate change, storms, fires, floods, droughts, are worsening the situation. Therefore, forest terrestrial ecosystems are becoming more vulnerable due to changes in natural and environmental conditions. In the High Tatra Mountains in Slovakia, which are protected as a national park, four internationally monitored localities were established after the windthrow disaster in 2004 and fire in 2005: REF, with intact forest; EXT, with extracted wood mass; NEX, with non-extracted wood mass; and FIR, the burnt locality. Soils from these localities were microbiologically analysed with special attention to fungi. Bacterial microbiota detected by high-throughput sequencing showed the prevalence of the genera Acidothermus, Mycobacterium, and Nocardia, and a very low presence of the genera Acidibacter, Burkholderia-Paraburkholderia, Optitus and the uncultured genus Desulfurellaceae H16 in the soil sample from the burnt locality when compared with the unburned sites. Additionally, soil mycocoenoses showed a low similarity between the locality with an intact forest ecosystem and the localities with extracted (REF–EXT) and non-extracted (REF–NEX) wood mass. There was no similarity with the burnt locality (FIR), where heat-resistant fungi dominated. It was shown that the windthrow disaster and subsequent extraction or non-extraction of wood mass did not affect the soil microbial communities or their development. On the other hand, the influence of fire was significant.

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Soil microbial community responses to windthrow disturbance in Tatra National Park (Slovakia) during the period 2006 – 2013 / Odozva pôdneho mikrobiálneho spoločenstva na veternú kalamitu v Tatranskom národnom parku (Slovensko) v období rokov 2006–2013

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Windstorms as mediator of soil nematode community changes: Evidence from European spruce forest

Windstorms as mediator of soil nematode community changes: Evidence from European spruce forest

Soil Microbial Functional Diversity under the Single-Season Influence of Traditional Forest Management in a Sessile Oak Forest of Central Europe

Soil Microbiota of Dystric Cambisol in the High Tatra Mountains (Slovakia) after Windthrow

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