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Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization on Litter and Soil Decomposition: Microbial Biomass
The influence of inorganic nitrogen (N) inputs on decomposition is poorly understood. Some prior studies suggest that N may reduce the decomposition of substrates with high concentrations of lignin via inhibitory effects on the activity of lignin-degrading enzymes, although such inhibition has not always been demonstrated. The purpose of E145 was to study the effects of nitrogen (N) addition on decomposition of seven substrates ranging in initial lignin concentrations (from 7.4 - 25.6%) over five years in eight different grassland and forest sites in central Minnesota.
MRCE/LTER Soil and Microbial Biomass Nitrogen
The data reported here are only for tabonuco forest at El Verde. Following plot setup and one year of pre-treatment measurements, Hurricane Hugo struck before the first planned fertilization. Because a year and a half of annual above ground litter inputs of phosphorus were dropped onto the forest floor in the form of leaf litter, we added a debris removal treatment to the original two, fertilized and control.These data were used to determine the pools of readily available nitrogen in soil solution in debris removal and fertilizer treatments applied to tabonuco forest at El Verde immediately after Hurricane Hugo struck in September 1989. The treatments (complete removal of litter and woody debris, total fertilization, and control). Both ammonium and nitrate were low in the May 1990 samples. All samples had more KCl extractable ammonium in September, but negligible nitrate. Increases in ammonium were greatest in the fertilized and debris removal plots as compared to the control treatment. These results were positively correlated with litterfall production and canopy closure, with faster rates of recovery in the fertilized and debris removal treatments as compared to the control. Soil extractable (readily available) N was negatively correlated with microbial N in the samples collected one year after Hurricane Hugo, indicating microbial immobilization of N. Century modeling results were consistent with our observations and indicated that woody debris increased the input of low-nutrient substrate to the soil thereby stimulating microbial uptake/immobilization. Thus the soil microbes in the control plots outcompeted the trees for limiting N, thereby slowing their recovery. Support for this work was provided by grants BSR-8811902, DEB-9411973, DEB-9705814 , DEB-0080538, DEB-0218039 , DEB-0620910 , DEB-1239764, DEB-1546686, and DEB-1831952 from the National Science Foundation to the University of Puerto Rico as part of the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research Program. Add
Deschampsia biomass, soil microbes and endophyte root colonization for snowmelt and microbial innoculation transplant experiment in the Green Lakes Valley, 2015-2018
As organisms shift their geographic distributions in response to climate change, biotic interactions have emerged as an important factor driving the rate and success of range expansions. Plant-microbe interactions are an understudied but potentially important factor governing plant range shifts. We studied the distribution and function of microbes present in high-elevation unvegetated soils, areas that plants are colonizing as climate warms, snow melts earlier and the summer growing season lengthens. Using a manipulative snowpack and microbial inoculation transplant experiment, we tested the hypothesis that growing season length and microbial community composition interact to control plant elevational range shifts. We predicted that a lengthening growing season combined with dispersal to patches of soils with more mutualistic microbes and fewer pathogenic microbes would facilitate plant survival and growth in previously unvegetated areas. We identified negative effects on survival of the common alpine bunchgrass Deschampsia cespitosa in both short and long growing seasons, suggesting an optimal growing season length for plant survival in this system that balances time for growth with soil moisture levels. Importantly, growing season length and microbes interacted to affect plant survival and growth, such that microbial community composition increased in importance in suboptimal growing season lengths. Further, plants grown with microbes from unvegetated soils grew as well or better than plants grown with microbes from vegetated soils. These results suggest that the rate and spatial extent of plant colonization of unvegetated soils in mountainous areas experiencing climate change could depend on both growing season length and soil microbial community composition, with microbes potentially playing more important roles as growing seasons lengthen.
VDMBC_vertical_distribution_soil_microbial_biomass_carbon
<p>Soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC) is important in regulating soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics along soil profiles by mediating the decomposition and formation of SOC. The dataset (VDMBC) is about the vertical distributions of SOC, SMBC, and soil microbial quotient (SMQ = SMBC/SOC) and their relations to environmental factors across five continents. Data were collected from literature, with a total of 289 soil profiles and 1040 observations in different soil layers compiled. The associated environment data collectd include climate, ecosystem types, and edaphic factors. We developed this dataset by searching the the Web of Sciene and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure from the year of 1970 to 2019. All the data in this dataset met two creteria: 1) there were at least three mineral soil layers along a soil profile, and 2) SMBC was measured using the fumigation extraction method. The data in tables and texts were obtained from literature directly, and the data in figures were extracted by using the GetData Graph digitizer software version 2.25. When climate and soil properties were not available from publications, we obtainted the data from the World Weather Information Service (https://worldweather.wmo.int/en/home.html) and SoilGrids at a spatial resolution of 250 meters (version 0.5.3, https://soilgrids.org).</p> <p>The units of all the variables were converted to the standard international units or commonly used ones and the values were converted correspondingly. For example, the value of soil organic matter (SOM) was converted to SOC using the equation (SOC = SOM × 0.58). Soil depth was calculated as the arithmetic mean value of the upper and lower boundaries for a given soil layer.</p> <p>This dataset can be used in predicting global SOC change along soil profiles using the multi-layer soil carbon models. It can also be used to analyse how soil microbial biomass changes with plant roots as well as the composition, structure, and functions of soil microbial communities along soil profiles at large spatial scales. This dataset offers opportunities to improve our prediction of SOC dynamics under global changes and to advance our understanding of the environmental controls.</p>
Data supporting the manuscript entitled: 'Intermittent soil water stress history favors microbial traits that better mitigate wheat biomass losses during subsequent water stress.'
<p>Data living in this data repository supports the scientific article entitled: Intermittent soil water stress history favors microbial traits that better mitigate wheat biomass losses during subsequent water stress.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Figure 1 in Soil quality, leaf litter quality, and microbial biomass interactively drive soil respiration in a microcosm experiment
Figure 1. Principal components analysis of (A) soil quality and (B) leaf litter quality across the experimental treatments (Table S1-2). Soil quality was quantified as a combination of soil pH, C, N, and C:N; leaf litter quality was quantified as a combination of leaf Ca, C, lignin, Mg, N, P, C:N, C:P, and N:P. Soil and leaf litter were collected from Hainich National Park, Germany.
Figure 1 in Building a global database of soil microbial biomass and function: a call for collaboration
Figure 1. Sampling locations and underrepresented environmental conditions in the dataset as of 19 November, 2019. For each pixel, we measured the percentage of environmental conditions (e.g. climate, soil characteristics, topographic information, vegetation indices) captured by the current dataset. Hot deserts, tropical rainforests and sub-Arctic regions are the least represented.
Microbial biomass and soil properties data, global scale,1970s-2010s
The data for Microbial Data System. We will collect data for soil and microbial characteristics in terrestrial ecosystems and update regularly. The date of publications used spans from the late 1970s to 2012. The data were aggregated into 11 major biome types. These data points were collected exclusively for surface soils, primarily 0–15 cm depth with some 0–30 cm. We obtained 3259 data points with geographical information.
Eight Mile Lake Research Watershed, Carbon in Permafrost Experimental Heating Research (CiPEHR): Off Plot Soil Incubation By Depth I - Soil Properties and Final Microbial Biomass 2013-2014
The Carbon in Permafrost Experimental Heating Research (CiPEHR) project addresses the following questions: 1) Does ecosystem warming cause a net release of C from the ecosystem to the atmosphere?, 2) Does the decomposition of old C, that comprises the bulk of the soil C pool, influence ecosystem C loss?, and 3) How do winter and summer warming alone, and in combination, affect ecosystem C exchange? We are answering these questions using a combination of field and laboratory experiments to measure ecosystem carbon balance and radiocarbon isotope ratios at a warming experiment located in an upland tundra field site near Healy, Alaska in the foothills of the Alaska Range. We investigated C and nitrogen (N) mineralization within the soil profile by incubating soil cores collected adjacent to (but not within) the CiPEHR site. These soil cores spanned the entire active layer and approximately 30 cm of permafrost. Soil cores were separated into 10 cm depth intervals and incubated for 241 days at 15 degC and field moisture was maintained with water additions. This dataset contains data on the bulk soil %C, bulk soil %N, soil bulk density, initial gravimetric water content measured prior to the incubation. Microbial biomass was measured at the end of the incubation and is presented here as well.
Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta-analysis
<p>Eutrophication, including nitrogen (N) enrichment, can affect soil microbial communities through changes in trophic interactions. However, a knowledge gap still exists about how plant resources ('bottom-up effects') and microbial predators ('top-down effects') regulate the impacts of N enrichment on microbial biomass at the global scale.</p> <p>To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a global meta-analysis using 2885 paired observations from 217 publications to evaluate the regulatory effects of plant biomass and soil nematodes on soil microbial biomass under N enrichment across terrestrial ecosystems.</p> <p>We found that the effects of N enrichment on soil microbial biomass strongly varied across ecosystems. N enrichment decreased the soil microbial biomass of natural grasslands and forests due to soil acidification and the subsequent losses of predatory and microbivorous nematodes stimulating microbial growth. By contrast, N enrichment increased the microbial biomass of managed croplands mainly via increasing plant biomass production. The short-term of N enrichment (experimental duration ≤ 5 years) could reduce microbial biomass via decreasing nematode abundance across diverse ecosystems, whereas the long-term of N enrichment (experimental duration > 5 years) mainly promoted microbial biomass via increasing plant biomass.</p> <p>These findings highlight the critical roles of microbial predators and plant input in shaping microbial responses to N enrichment, which are highly dependent on ecosystem type and the period of N enrichment. Earth system models that predict soil microbial biomass and their linkages to soil functioning should consider the variations in plant biomass and soil nematodes under future scenarios of N deposition.</p>
Dataset on soil and soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometry
<p>Dataset on soil and soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometry. This dataset is compiled for for the scientific paper entitled "Interpreting stoichiometric homeostasis and flexibility of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus" (doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110018).</p>
Soil property, microbial abundance, and plant and invertebrate biomass data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from August 2018
<p><span>This is a dataset of soil physiochemical properties, bacterial and fungal abundance, and above and belowground plant and invertebrate biomass, sampled at 40 plots in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland, from 15<sup>th</sup> to 22<sup>nd</sup> August 2018. The plots span a temperature gradient of 10</span><span>-35 °C over the sampling period, and this temperature gradient is consistent over time. The dataset also includes data on the decomposition rate of soil organic matter, which was sampled at 60 plots in the Hengill valley from May to July 2015.</span></p>
Three-dimensional mapping of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soil microbial biomass and their stoichiometry at the global scale
<p>R code, raw datasets, and predicted global maps of soil microbial biomass C, N, and P and their stoichiometric ratios at 0-30 cm depth.</p> <p>When using any of these layers, please cite: Gao et al., Three-dimensional mapping of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soil microbial biomass and their stoichiometry at the global scale (2022). Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16374</p>
Abiotic and biotic drivers of tree trait effects on soil microbial biomass and soil carbon concentration
<p>Forests are critical ecosystems to understand the global carbon budget, due to their carbon sequestration potential in both above- and belowground compartments, especially in species-rich forests. Soil carbon sequestration is strongly linked to soil microbial communities, and this link is mediated by the tree community, likely due to modifications of micro-environmental conditions (i.e., biotic conditions, soil properties, and microclimate). We studied soil carbon concentration and the soil microbial biomass of 180 local neighborhoods along a gradient of tree species richness ranging from 1 to 16 tree species per plot in a Chinese subtropical forest experiment (BEF-China). Tree productivity and different tree functional traits were measured at the neighborhood level. We tested the effects of tree productivity, functional trait identity and dissimilarity on soil carbon concentrations, and their mediation by the soil microbial biomass and micro-environmental conditions. Our analyses showed a strong positive correlation between soil microbial biomass and soil carbon concentrations. Besides, soil carbon concentration increased with tree productivity and tree root diameter while it decreased with litterfall C:N content. Moreover, tree productivity and tree functional traits (e.g. root fungal association and litterfall C:N ratio) modulated micro-environmental conditions with substantial consequences for soil microbial biomass. We also showed that soil history and topography should be considered in future experiments and tree plantations, as soil carbon concentrations were higher where historical (i.e., at the beginning of the experiment) carbon concentrations were high, themselves being strongly affected by the topography. Altogether, these results imply that the quantification of the different soil carbon pools is critical for understanding microbial community–soil carbon stock relationships and their dependence on tree diversity and micro-environmental conditions.</p>
Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context-dependent across forest diversity experiments
<p><b>Aim</b></p> <p>Soil microorganisms are essential for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Although soil microbial communities and functions may be linked to tree species composition and diversity, there has been no comprehensive study of how general these potential relationships are, or if they are context-dependent. Here, we examine tree diversity–soil microbial biomass and respiration relationships across environmental gradients using a global network of tree diversity experiments.</p> <p><b>Location</b></p> <p>Global</p> <p><b>Time Period</b></p> <p>2013</p> <p><b>Major Taxa Studied</b></p> <p>Soil microorganisms</p> <p><b>Methods</b></p> <p>Soil samples collected from eleven tree diversity experiments in four biomes were used to measure microbial respiration, biomass, and respiratory quotient using the substrate-induced respiration method. All samples were measured using the same analytical device, method, and procedure to reduce measurement bias. We used linear mixed-effects models and PCA to examine the effects of tree diversity (taxonomic and phylogenetic), environmental conditions, and interactions on soil microbial properties.</p> <p><b>Results</b></p> <p>Abiotic drivers, mainly soil water content, but also soil carbon and soil pH, significantly increased soil microbial biomass and respiration. Optimal soil water content reduced the importance of other abiotic drivers. Tree diversity alone had no effect on the soil microbial properties, but interactions with phylogenetic diversity indicated that diversity effects are context-dependent and stronger in drier soils. Similar results were found for soil carbon and soil pH.</p> <p><b>Main conclusions</b></p> <p>Our results point to the importance of abiotic variables and especially soil water content for maintaining high levels of soil microbial functions and modulating the effects of other environmental drivers. Planting tree species with diverse water-use strategies and structurally complex canopies and high leaf area may crucial for maintaining high soil microbial biomass and respiration. Since higher phylogenetic distance alleviated unfavorable soil water conditions, reforestation efforts accounting for traits improving soil water content or choosing more phylogenetically distant species may assist in increasing soil microbial functions.</p>
Impact of multiple soil microbial inoculants on biomass and biomass allocation of the legume crop field pea (Fabaceae: Pisum sativum L.)
<p>Food production is a global challenge and consequently, there is considerable interest in manipulating the rhizobiome using microbial inoculants (MI) to support sustainable agriculture. We investigated how three commercially-available types of plant growth-promoting MI, alone and in combination (B5: five species of <em>Bacillus</em> bacteria, GP: four species of <em>Trichoderma</em> fungi, N2: <em>Paenibacillus polymyxa</em> bacteria) impacted field pea (Fabales: Fabaceae, <em>Pisum sativum</em> L.) in the greenhouse and a two-year field experiment in the United States, North Dakota, NDSU Field Research station at Prosper ND. CON indicates controls that did not receive any MI and FC is the fertilizer control in the field experiment which also did not receive any MI. The dataset consists of data plant data from a 2-wk greenhouse experiment (GH 2wk), a 4-wk greenhouse experiment (GH 4wk), and a two-year field experiment (field). In the greenhouse, we found that effects of MI on plant performance varied, with positive effects of MI only apparent when plants were grown in the winter and likely under greater stress because they lacked nodules. Plants grown in the summer had nodules, and two-week-old MI plants had less root biomass and total plant weight than non-inoculated controls, but weight of four-week-old MI plants was similar to or greater than controls. In the field, the root-to-shoot biomass ratio was highest in non-inoculated controls, and positive effects of N2 on shoots and B5 on shoots and pod densities didn't translate into differences in pod weight or total plant weight. In most cases, plants inoculated with all three inoculants performed similarly to those receiving a single inoculant, while root colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) was higher for B5 plants than plants in the other treatments. This research underscores the need to consider microbial and environmental context when evaluating MI. </p>
Long-term warming of a forest soil reduces microbial biomass and its carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies
<p>Global warming impacts biogeochemical cycles in terrestrial ecosystems, but it is still unclear how the simultaneous cycling of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in soils could be affected in the longer-term. Here, we evaluated how 14 years of soil warming (+4°C) affected the soil C and N cycle across different soil depths and seasons in a temperate mountain forest. We used H<sub>2</sub><sup>18</sup>O incorporation into DNA and <sup>15</sup>N isotope pool dilution techniques to determine gross rates of C and N transformation processes. Our data showed different warming effects on soil C and N cycling, and these were consistent across soil depths and seasons. Warming decreased microbial biomass C (−22%), but at the same time increased microbial biomass-specific growth (+25%) and respiration (+39%), the potential activity of β-glucosidase (+31%), and microbial turnover (+14%). Warming reduced gross rates of protein depolymerization (−19%), but stimulated gross N mineralization (+63%) and the potential activities of N-acetylglucosaminidase (+106%) and leucine-aminopeptidase (+46%), and had no impact on gross nitrification (+1%). Microbial C and N use efficiencies were both lower in the warming treatment (−15% and −17%, respectively). Overall, our results suggest that long-term warming drives soil microbes to incorporate less C and N into their biomass (and necromass), and to release more inorganic C and N to the environment, causing lower soil C and N storage in this forest, as indicated by lower soil C and total N contents. The decreases in microbial CUE and NUE were likely triggered by increasing microbial P constraints in warmed soils, limiting anabolic processes and microbial growth and promoting pervasive losses of C and N from the soil.</p>
Long-term warming of a forest soil reduces microbial biomass and its carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies
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Trophic regulation of soil microbial biomass under nitrogen enrichment: A global meta-analysis
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