Interactions of vegetation succession, soil bio-chemical properties and microbial communities in a Karst ecosystem

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• 作者：Hanhua Zhu ; Xunyang He ; Kelin Wang ; Yirong Su ; Jinshui Wu ; ^{jswu@isa.ac.cn}
• 关键词：Soil physico-chemical properties ; Microbial diversity ; Metabolic quotient ; Microbial biomass ; Vegetation succession ; Karst ecosystem
• 刊名：European Journal of Soil Biology
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：43_11645563
• 类别：abs
• 出版时间：July-August, 2012
• 卷：51
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-7
• 文件大小：339 K

摘要

Interactions among vegetation, soil physical and chemical conditions, and soil microbial communities determine the functions, resilience and stability of ecosystems. However, these interactions are largely unclear in the fragile Karst ecosystems. This study therefore investigated the bulk soils from five vegetation stages representing the dominant vegetation succession of subtropical Karst ecosystems. The results of this study indicated that, along the vegetation succession steps from arable farming, tussock, shrub, to secondary and primary forest, the contents of organic carbon (OC) and total nitrogen (TN), cation exchange capacity (CEC), water stability index (WSI), the amounts of microbial biomass carbon (C_mb) and biomass nitrogen (N_mb), N_mb:TN ratio, and Shannon indexes of fungal phylogenetic diversity (H鈥?sub>pf) and bacterial phylogenetic and catabolic diversities (referred as H鈥?sub>pb and H鈥?sub>cb, respectively) increased significantly (p聽<聽0.05), whilst soil bulk density (BD) and metabolic quotient (qCO₂) decreased (p聽<聽0.05). Soil microbial properties (C_mb, N_mb, qCO₂, H鈥?sub>pb, H鈥?sub>pf and H鈥?sub>cb) were correlated (p聽<聽0.05) with the contents of soil OC, TN, CEC and BD. There were also correlations (p聽<聽0.05) between the OC and the TN, CEC and BD of soils, and between the H鈥?sub>cb and the qCO₂ of soil microbial communities. In conclusion, the accumulation of OC with vegetation succession drives improvements of soil physico-chemical properties, and the phylogenetic diversities as indicated by their partial 16S/18S rRNA genes and catabolic capability as indicated by utilization patterns of different carbon sources of microbial communities, which in turn may accelerate the restoration of the degraded ecosystems in the subtropical Karst region.