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Resource Legacies of Organic and Conventional Management Differentiate Soil Microbial Carbon Use

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العنوان: Resource Legacies of Organic and Conventional Management Differentiate Soil Microbial Carbon Use
المؤلفون: Melissa M. Arcand, David J. Levy-Booth, Bobbi L. Helgason
المصدر: Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 8 (2017)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: LCC:Microbiology
مصطلحات موضوعية: thermodynamics, carbon use efficiency, microbial community composition, 13C-DNA-SIP, priming effect, organic agriculture, Microbiology, QR1-502
الوصف: Long-term contrasts in agricultural management can shift soil resource availability with potential consequences to microbial carbon (C) use efficiency (CUE) and the fate of C in soils. Isothermal calorimetry was combined with 13C-labeled glucose stable isotope probing (SIP) of 16S rRNA genes to test the hypothesis that organically managed soils would support microbial communities with greater thermodynamic efficiency compared to conventional soils due to a legacy of lower resource availability and a resultant shift toward communities supportive of more oligotrophic taxa. Resource availability was greater in conventionally managed soils, with 3.5 times higher available phosphorus, 5% more nitrate, and 36% more dissolved organic C. The two management systems harbored distinct glucose-utilizing populations of Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria, with a higher Proteobacteria:Actinobacteria ratio (2.4 vs. 0.7) in conventional soils. Organically managed soils also harbored notable activity of Firmicutes. Thermodynamic efficiency indices were similar between soils, indicating that glucose was metabolized at similar energetic cost. However, differentially abundant glucose utilizers in organically managed soils were positively correlated with soil organic matter (SOM) priming and negatively correlated to soil nutrient and carbon availability, respiration, and heat production. These correlation patterns were strongly reversed in the conventionally managed soils indicating clear differentiation of microbial functioning related to soil resource availability. Fresh C addition caused proportionally more priming of SOM decomposition (57 vs. 51%) in organically managed soils likely due to mineralization of organic nutrients to satisfy microbial demands during glucose utilization in these more resource deprived soils. The additional heat released from SOM oxidation may explain the similar community level thermodynamic efficiencies between management systems. Restoring fertility to soils with a legacy of nutrient limitation requires a balanced supply of both nutrients and energy to protect stable SOM from microbial degradation. These results highlight the need to consider managing C for the energy it provides to ıcritical biological processes that underpin soil health.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1664-302X
Relation: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02293/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1664-302X
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02293
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/8c7a629d95624cfdb8014dd0ef357551
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.8c7a629d95624cfdb8014dd0ef357551
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:1664302X
DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2017.02293