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Microbial Community, Newly Sequestered Soil Organic Carbon, and ?15N Variations Driven by Tree Roots.

ABSTRACT: Rhizosphere microbes in forests are key elements of the carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems. To date, little is known about how the diversity and species interactions of the active rhizomicrobial community change during soil carbon sequestration and what interactions drive these changes. In this study, we used a combination of DNA and stable isotope method to explore correlations between the composition of microbial communities, N transformation, and the sequestration de novo of carbon in soils around Pinus tabuliformis and Quercus variabilis roots in North China. Rhizosphere soils from degraded lands, primary stage land (tree roots had colonized in degraded soil for 1 year), and nature forest were sampled for analyses. The results showed that microbial communities and newly sequestered soil organic carbon (SOC) contents changed with different tree species, environments, and successive stages. The fungal unweighted and weighted UniFrac distances could better show the different microbial species structures and differences in successive stages. Newly sequestered SOC was positively correlated with the bacterial order Rhizobiales (in P. tabuliformis forests), the fungal order Russulales (in Q. variabilis forests), and ?15N. Consequently, the bacterial order Rhizobiales acted as an important taxa for P. tabuliformis root-driven carbon sequestration, and the fungal order Russulales acted as an important taxa for Q. variabilis root-driven carbon sequestration. The two plant species allocated root exudates to different portion of their root systems, which in turn altered microbial community composition and function. The ?15N of soil organic matter could be an important indicator to estimate root-driven carbon sequestration.

SUBMITTER: Song W

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7056912 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Microbial Community, Newly Sequestered Soil Organic Carbon, and δ<sup>15</sup>N Variations Driven by Tree Roots.

Song Wenchen W Tong Xiaojuan X Liu Yanhong Y Li Weike W

Frontiers in microbiology 20200227

Rhizosphere microbes in forests are key elements of the carbon sequestration of terrestrial ecosystems. To date, little is known about how the diversity and species interactions of the active rhizomicrobial community change during soil carbon sequestration and what interactions drive these changes. In this study, we used a combination of DNA and stable isotope method to explore correlations between the composition of microbial communities, N transformation, and the sequestration <i>de novo</i> o ...[more]

PMID: 32174905

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Microbial Community, Newly Sequestered Soil Organic Carbon, and ?15N Variations Driven by Tree Roots.

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Microbial Community, Newly Sequestered Soil Organic Carbon, and δ<sup>15</sup>N Variations Driven by Tree Roots.

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