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Only Minor Changes in the Soil Microbiome of a Sub-alpine Forest After 20 Years of Moderately Increased Nitrogen Loads
Frey, Beat; Carnol, Monique; Dharmarajah, Alexander et al.
2020In Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 3, p. 77
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Keywords :
forest ecosystems; nitrogen; ecosystem functioning; soil microbiome; Illumina MiSeq sequencing; fungal communities; FUNGuild
Abstract :
[en] Soil appears to play a key role in the response of the forest ecosystems to N deposition. Twenty years of experimental moderate N addition in a sub-alpine forest increased nitrate leaching, but the soil immobilized most of the N input, gradually decreasing the C:N ratio. Exchangeable and microbial N were only slightly affected, but denitrification and N<sub>2</sub>O production were increased and soil respiration tended to be reduced while soil microbial communities were remarkably resistant. It is assumed that these changes at the process level are related to the soil microbiome, but soil microbial communities have not been assessed so far at lower taxonomical resolution in this long-term experiment. The aim of this study is to understand the underlying causes of the results obtained so far by assessing how N treatment affects the soil microbiome at different soil depths. We analyzed bacterial and fungal diversity and community structures using Illumina MiSeq sequencing and quantified the responses of the N cycling communities to elevated N loads by quantitative PCR. The microbial functions were assessed by respiration, N mineralization, and potential nitrification. Bacterial and fungal α-diversity, observed richness and Shannon diversity index, remained unchanged upon N addition. Multivariate statistics showed shifts in the structures of fungal but not bacterial communities with N load, while the changes were minor. Differences in the community compositions associated with the N treatment were mainly observed at a lower taxonomical level. We found several fungal OTUs in particular genera such as the ectomycorrhizal fungi Hydnum, Piloderma, Amanita, and Tricholoma that decreased significantly with increased N-loads. We conclude that long-term moderate N addition at this forest site did not strongly affect the soil microbiome (which remained remarkably resistant) and its functioning.
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...)
Author, co-author :
Frey, Beat
Carnol, Monique  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Ecologie végétale et microbienne
Dharmarajah, Alexander
Brunner, Ivano
Schleppi, Patrick
Language :
English
Title :
Only Minor Changes in the Soil Microbiome of a Sub-alpine Forest After 20 Years of Moderately Increased Nitrogen Loads
Publication date :
2020
Journal title :
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
eISSN :
2624-893X
Publisher :
Frontiers, Lausanne, Switzerland
Volume :
3
Pages :
77
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Linking forest soil food-web patterns with soil organic matter characteristics across five European biogeographical regions (grant C16.0052)
Funders :
SNSF - Swiss National Science Foundation [CH]
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