Effects of the nematofauna on microbial energy and matter transformation rates in European grassland soils

Plant and Soil

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-61

  Ekschmitt, Klemens ^a   Bakonyi, Gabor ^b   Bongers, Marina ^c   Bongers, Tom ^c   Boström, Sven ^d   Dogan, Hülya ^a   Harrison, Andrew ^e   Kallimanis, Athanassios ^f   Nagy, Péter ^b   O'Donnell, Anthony G ^e   Sohlenius, Björn ^d   Stamou, George P ^f   Wolters, Volkmar ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Grasslands; Interactions; Metabolic activity; Microflora; Nematodes; Soil microclimate; Soil nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ENERGY FLUX; GRASSLAND SOIL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEMATODE; NITROGEN;

EUROPE;

NEMATODA;

EID: 0032694968     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004682620283     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Allen S E 1974 Chemical analysis of ecological materials. Blackwell Scientific Publications, 368 p.
2. Anderson J P E and Domsch K H 1978 A physiological method for the quantitative measurement of microbial biomass in soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 10, 215-221.
3. Anderson R V, Coleman D C, Cole C V and Elliott E T 1981 Effect of the nematodes Acrobeloides sp. and Mesodiplogaster lheritieri on substrate utilisation and nitrogen and phosphorus mineralisation in soil. Ecology 62, 549-555.
4. Andrassy I 1984 Klasse Nematoda. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 509 p.
5. Andrassy I 1956 Die Rauminhalts und Gewichtsbestimmung der Fadenwürmer (Nematoden). Acta Zool. Hung. Acad. Sci. 2, 1-15.
6. Bardgett R D, Cook R, Yeates G W and Denton C S (this volume). The influence of nematodes on below-ground processes in grassland ecosystems.
7. Bardgett R D, Keiller S, Cook R and Gilburn A 1998 Dynamic interactions between soil animals and microorganisms in upland grassland soils amended with sheep dung: a microcosm study. Soil Biol. Biochem. 30, 531-539.
8. Bardgett R D, Leemans D K, Cook R, Hobbs P J 1997 Seasonality of the soil Biota of grazed and ungrazed hill grasslands. Soil Biol. Biochem. 29, 1285-1294.
9. Bongers T 1988 De Nematoden van Nederland. KNNV-Bibliotheek-uitgave, 46. Pirola, Schoorl, 406 p.
10. Bouwman L A, Bloem J, van den Boogert P H J F, Hoenderboom G H J and DeRuiter P C 1994 Short-term and long-term effects of bacterivorous nematodes and nematophagous fungi on carbon and nitrogen mineralisation in microcosms. Biol. Fertil. Soils 17, 249-256.
11. Brookes P C, Kragt J F, Powlson D S and Jenkinson D S 1985a Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen. Soil. Biol. Biochem. 17, 831-835.
12. Brookes P C, Landman A, Pruden G and Jenkinson D S 1985b Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: a rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil. Soil. Biol. Biochem 17, 837-842.
13. Coleman D C 1973 Soil carbon balance in a successional grassland. Oikos 24, 195-199.
14. Coleman D C, Cole C V, Anderson R V, Blaha M, Campion M K, Clarholm M, Elliot E T, Hunt H W, Schaefer B and Sinclair J 1977 Analysis of rhizosphere-saprophage interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. In Soil organisms as components of ecosystems. U Lohm and T Persson (Eds.) Ecol. Bull. (Stockholm) 25, 299-309.
15. Cook R D and Nachtsheim C J 1980 A comparison of algorithms for constructing exact D-optimal designs. Technometrics 22, 315-324.
16. De Goede R G M and Bongers T (Eds.) 1998 Nematode communities of northern temperate grassland ecosystems. Focus, Giessen, 338 p.
17. Djajakirana G and Joergensen R G 1996 Changes in soil organic matter, microbial biomass C and ergosterol under a fairy ring of Marasmius oreades. Pedobiologia 40, 498-504.
18. Djajakirana G, Joergensen R G and Meyer B 1996 Ergosterol and microbial biomass relationship in soil. Biol. Fertil. Soils 22, 299-304.
19. Dunger W and Fiedler H J 1989 Methoden der Bodenbiologie. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, 432 p.
20. Ferris H, Venette R C and Lau S S 1997 Population energetics of bacterial-feeding nematodes: carbon and nitrogen budgets. Soil Biol. Biochem. 29, 1183-1194.
21. Freckman D W and Caswell E P 1985 The ecology of nematodes in agroecosystems. Ann. Rev. Phytopathol. 23, 275-296.
22. Garcia C, Hernandez T and Costa F 1994 Microbial activity in soils under mediterranean environmental conditions. Soil Biol. Biochem. 26 (9), 1185-1191.
23. Griffiths B S 1994 Microbial-feeding nematodes and protozoa in soil: Their effects on microbial activity and nitrogen mineralization in decomposition hotspots and the rhizosphere. Plant Soil 164, 25-33.
24. Hassink J, Neutel A M and Ruiter P C 1994 C and N mineralization in sandy and loamy grassland soils: the role of microbes and microfauna. Soil Biol. Biochem. 26 (11), 1565-1571.
25. Hodda M and Wanless F R 1994 Nematodes from an English chalk grassland: population ecology. Pedobiologia 38, 530-545.
26. Ingham R E, Trofymow J A, Ingham E R and Coleman D C 1985 Interactions of bacteria, fungi and their nematode grazers, effects on nutrient cycling and plant growth. Ecol. Monogr. 55, 119-140.
27. Isermeyer H 1952 Eine einfache Methode zur Bestimmung der Bodenatmung und der Karbonate im Boden. Z. Pflanzenernaehr. Bodenk. 56, 26-38.
28. Jenkinson D S and Powlson D S 1976 The effects of biocidal treatments on metabolism in soil - V. Soil. Biol. Biochem. 8, 209-213.
29. Joergensen R G 1996 The fumigation-extraction method to estimate soil microbial biomass: calibration of the kEC value. Soil Biol. Biochem. 28, 25-31.
30. Joergensen R G Brookes P C and Jenkinson D S 1990 Survival of the microbial biomass at elevated temperatures. Soil Biol. Biochem. 22, 1129-1137.
31. Klekowski R Z, Wasilewska L and Paplinska E 1972 oxygen consumption by soil-inhabiting nematodes. Nematologica 18, 391-403.
32. Kreitz S and Anderson T H 1997 Substrate utilization patterns of extractable and non-extractable bacterial fractions in neutral and acidic beech forest soils. In Insam H and Rangger A (Eds). Microbial communities. Springer, Berlin, pp. 149-160.
33. Matar A E, Beck D P, Pala M and Garabet S 1991 Nitrogen mineralization potentials of selected Mediterranean soils. Commun. in Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 22(1&2), 23-36.
34. Menaut J-C and Struwe S (Eds) 1994 Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Initiative (TERI). Science Plan. Ecosystems Res. Report 17. European Commission, Brussels.
35. Procter D L C 1977 Nematode densities and production on Truelove Lowland. In Bliss, Truelove Lowland, Devon Island, Canada: A high arctic ecosystem. Alberta Press, pp. 347-361.
36. Ross D J 1990 Measurements of microbial biomass C and N in grassland soils by fumigation-incubation procedures: Influence of inoculum size and the control. Soil Biol. Biochem. 3 289-294.
37. Rosswall T, Flower-Ellis J G K, Johansson L G, Jonsson S, Rydén B E and Sonesson M 1975 Stordalen (Abisko), Sweden. In Structure and function of tundra ecosystems. T Rosswall and O W Heal Eds. Ecol. Bull. (Stockholm) 20, 265-294.
38. s'Jacob J J and Van Bezooijen J 1984 A manual for practical work in Nematology. Wageningen Agricultural University, 77 p.
39. Sohlenius B 1980 Abundance, biomass and contribution to energy flow by soil nematodes in terrestrial ecosystems. Oikos 34, 186-194.
40. Sohlenius B, Boström S and Ekebom A 1997 Metazoan microfauna in an ombrotrophic mire at Abisko, northern Sweden. Eur. J. Soil Biol. 33, 31-39.
41. Sonnemann I, Dogan H, Klein A, Pieper B, Ekschmitt K and Wolters V 1999 Response of soil microflora to changes in nematode abundance - evidence for large scale effects in grassland soil. J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 162: 385-391.
42. Spaull V W 1973 Distribution of nematode feeding groups at Signy island, South Orkney islands, with estimate of their biomass and oxygen consumption. - Br. Antarct Surv. Bull. 37, 21-32.
43. Storey G W 1984 A multiple regression model for the respiratory activity of soil nematodes. Nematologica 30, 42-56.
44. Sutton M A (Ed.) 1999 Transects for European research in ecosystem functioning: site based measurement strategies in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Initiative. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Edinburgh.
45. Vahjen W, Munch J C and Tebbe C C 1995 Carbon source utilisation of soil extracted microorganisms as a tool to detect the effect of soil supplemented with genetically engineered and non engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum and a recombinant peptid at the community level. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 18, 317-328.
46. Valocka B and Sabova M 1997 Communities of soil and plant nematodes in two types of grassland. Helminthologia 34, 97-103.
47. Van Gestel M, Merckx R and Vlassak K 1993 Microbial biomass responses to soil drying and rewetting: the fate of fast- and slow-growing microorganisms in soils from different climates. Soil Biol. Biochem. 25, 109-123.
48. Wardle D A and Lavelle P 1997 Linkages between Soil biota, Plant Litter Quality and Decomposition. In Driven by Nature. Eds D Cadisch and K E Giller. pp 107-124. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
49. West A W and Sparling G P 1986 Modifications to the substrate-induced respiration method to permit measurement of microbial biomass in soils of differing water contents. J. Microbiol. Meth. 5, 177-189.
50. West A W, Sparling G P and Grant W D 1986 Correlation between four methods to estimate total microbial biomass in stored, air dried and glucose-amended soils. Soil Biol. Biochem. 18, 569-576.
51. Winding A and Hendriksen N B 1997 Biolog substrate utilisation assay for metabolic fingerprints of soil bacteria: incubation effects. In Microbial communities. Insam, H. and Rangger, A. (Eds). Springer, Berlin, pp. 195-205.
52. Woods L E, Cole C V, Elliot E T, Anderson R V and Coleman D C 1982 Nitrogen transformations in soil as affected by bacterial-microfaunal interactions. Soil Biol. Biochem. 14, 93-98.
53. Yeates G W 1996 Diversity of nematode fauna under three vegetation types on a pallic soil in Otago, New Zealand. New Zeal. J. Zool. 23, 401-407.
54. Yeates G W, Bongers T, De Goede R G M, Freckman D W and Georgieva S S 1993 Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera - An outline for soil ecologists. J. Nematol. 25, 315-331.