Spatial heterogeneity and soil nitrogen dynamics in a burned black spruce forest stand: Distinct controls at different scales

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 517-537

  Smithwick, Erica A H ^a   Mack, Michelle C ^b   Turner, Monica G ^a   Chapin III, F Stuart ^c   Zhu, Jun ^a,d   Balser, Teri C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Fire; Microbial community composition; Mineralization; Nitrogen; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

FOREST SOIL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINERALIZATION; SOIL NITROGEN;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 28444442732     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: 1573515X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-005-0031-y     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. J.F. Addicott J.M. Aho M.F. Antolin D.K. Padilla J.S. Richardson D.A. Soluk 1987 Ecological neighborhoods: scaling environmental problems Oikos 49 340 346
2. T. Arao 1999 In situ detection of changes in soil bacterial and fungal activities by measuring 13C incorporation into soil phospholipid fatty acids from 13C acetate Soil Biol. Biochem. 31 1015 1020
3. E. Baath T.-H. Anderson 2003 Comparison of soil fungal/bacterial ratios in a pH gradient using physiological and PLFA-based techniques Soil Biol. Biochem. 35 955 963
4. E. Baath A. Frostegard T. Pennanen H. Fritze 1995 Microbial community structure and pH response in relation to soil organic matter quality in wood-ash fertilizedclear-cut or burned coniferous forest soils Soil Biol. Biochem. 27 229 240
5. Balser T., Kinzig A. and Firestone M.K. 2002. Linking soil microbial communities and ecosystem functioning. In: Kinzig A., Pacala S. and Tilman D. (eds), The Functional Consequences of Biodiversity: Empirical Progress and Theoretical Extensions. Princeton University Press, pp. 265-356.
6. T.C. Balser M.K. Firestone 2005 Linking microbial community composition and soil processes in a California annual grassland and mixed-conifer forest Biogeochemistry 73 395 415
7. 2 and carbon sequestration in forests Front. Ecol. Environ. 2 315 322
8. G. Bell M.J. Lechowicz A. Appenzeller M. Chandler E. DeBlois L.E. Jackson B. Mackenzie R. Preziosi M. Schallenberg N. Tinker 1993 The spatial structure of the physical environment Oecologia 96 114 121
9. G.D. Bending M.K. Turner 1999 Interaction of biochemical quality and particle size of crop residues and its effects on the microbial biomass and nitrogen dynamics following incorporation into soil Biol. Fert Soils 29 319 327
10. L. Beneditti-Cecchi 2003 The importance of the variance around the mean effect size of ecological processes Ecology 84 2335 2346
11. D. Binkley P.A. Matson 1983 Ion exchange resin bag method for assessing forest soil nitrogen availability Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 47 1050 1052
12. P. Bolstad W.T. Swank J. Vose 1998 Predicting southern Appalachian overstory vegetation with digital terrain data Lands Ecol. 13 271 283
13. J. Chen J. Stark 2000 Plant species effects and carbon and nitrogen cycling in a sagebrush-crested wheatgrass soil Soil Biol. Biochem. 32 47 57
14. S. Christensen S. Simkins J.M. Tiedje 1990 Spatial variation in denitrification: Dependency of activity centers on the soil environment Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 54 1608 1613
15. M.K. Clayton B.D. Hudelson 1995 Confidence intervals for autocorrelations based on cyclic samples J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 90 753 757
16. A. Dahlberg 2002 Effects of fire on ectomycorrhizal fungi in Fennoscandian Boreal forests Silva Fennica 36 69 80
17. C.T. Dyrness K. Van Cleve J.D. Levison 1989 The effect of wildfire on soil chemistry in four forest types in interior Alaska Can. J. For. Res. 19 1389 1396
18. W. Fan J.C. Randolph J.L. Ehman 1998 Regional estimation of nitrogen mineralization in forest ecosystems using geographic information systems Ecol. Appl. 8 734 747
19. J.M. Fraterrigo MG Turner SM Pearson P Dixon 2005 Effects of past land use on spatial heterogeneity of soil nutrients in southern Appalachian forests Ecol. Monogr. 75 215 230
20. A. Frostegard E. Baath 1996 The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis to estimate bacterial and fungal biomass in soil Biol. Fert Soils 22 59 65
21. S.J. Grayston G.S. Griffith J.L. Mawdsley C.D. Campell R.D. Bardgett 2001 Accounting for variability in soil microbial communities of temperate upland grassland ecosystems Soil Biol. Biochem. 33 533 551
22. Harden J.W., Neff J.C., Sandberg D.V., Turetsky M.R., Ottmar R., Gleixner G., Fries T.L. and Manies K.L. 2004. Chemistry of burning the forest floor during the FROSTFIRE experimental burn, interior Alaska1999. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 18: GB3014, doi:3010.1029/2003GB002194.
23. S.C. Hart D. Binkley D.A. Perry 1997 Influence of red alder on soil nitrogen transformations in two conifer forests of contrasting productivity Soil Biol. Biochem. 29 1111 1123
24. Hinzman L.D., Viereck L.A., Adams P.C., Romanovsky V.E. and Yoshikawa K. (in press). Climatic and permafrost dynamics of the Alaskan boreal forest. In: Chapin F.S. III, Oswood M., Van Cleve K., Viereck L.A. and Verbyla D.L. (eds), Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, Oxford. (in press).
25. S.E. Hobbie 2000 Interactions between litter lignin and soil nitrogen availability during leaf litter decomposition in a Hawaiian montane forest Ecosystems 3 484 494
26. S.E. Hobbie J.P. Schimel S.E. Trumbore J.R. Randerson 2000 Controls over carbon storage and turnover in high-latitude soils Global Change Biol. 6 196 210
27. E.H. Isaaks R.M. Srivastava 1989 An Introduction to Applied Geostatistics Oxford University Press New York, NY
28. M.L. Jackson 1958 Soil Chemical Analysis Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
29. R.B. Jackson M.M. Caldwell 1993 Geostatistical patterns of soil heterogeneity around individual perennial plants J. Ecol. 81 683 692
30. D.M. Kashian M.G. Turner W.H. Romme C.G. Lorimer 2005 Variability and convergence in stand structure with forest development on a fire-dominated landscape Ecology 86 643 654
31. E.S. Kasischke D. Williams D. Barry 2002 Analysis of the patterns of large fires in the boreal forest region of Alaska Int. J. Wildland Fire 11 1331 1144
32. P. Legendre M.R.T. Dale M.-J. Fortin J. Gurevitch M. Hohn D. Myers 2002 The consequences of spatial structure for the design and analysis of ecological field surveys Ecography 25 601 615
33. J. Liski 1995 Variation in soil organic carbon and thickness of soil horizons within a boreal forest stand - effects of trees and implications for sampling Silva Fennica 29 255 266
34. J.A. Ludwig J.A. Wiens D.J. Tongway 2000 A scaling rule for landscape patches and how it applies to conserving soil resources in savannas Ecosystems 3 84 97
35. T. Marumoto J.P.E. Anderson K.H. Domsch 1982 Decomposition of 14C- and 15N-labelled microbial cells in soil Soil Biol. Biochem. 14 461 467
36. B. [tmp] McCune J.B. Grace 2002 Analysis of Ecological Communities MjM Software Design, Gleneden Beach Oregon, USA
37. B. [tmp] McCune M.J. Mefford 1999 PC-ORD Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data. Version 4.0. MjM Software Design, Gleneden Beach Oregon, USA
38. P. Merila R. Strommer H. Fritze 2002 Soil microbial activity and community structure along a primary succession transect on the land-uplift coast in western Finland Soil Biol. Biochem. 34 1647 1654
39. R.T. Myers D.R. Zak D.C. White A.D. Peacock 2001 Landscape-level patterns of microbial community composition and substrate use in upland forest ecosystems Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 65 359 367
40. T. Pennanen J. Liski V. Kitunen J. Uotila C.J. Westman H. Fritze 1999 Structure of the microbial communities in coniferous forest soils in relation to site fertility and stand development stage Microb. Ecol. 38 168 179
41. R.J. Raison 1979 Modification of the soil environment by vegetation fires, with particular reference to nitrogen transformations: a review Plant Soil 51 73 108
42. R.E. Rossi D.J. Mulla A.G. Journel E.H. Franz 1992 Geostatistical tools for modeling and interpreting ecological spatial dependence Ecol. Monogr. 62 277 314
43. P. Saetre E. Baath 2000 Spatial variation and patterns of soil microbial community structure in a mixed spruce-birch stand Soil Biol. Biochem. 32 909 917
44. W.H. Schlesinger J.A. Raikes A.E. Hartley A.F. Cross 1996 On the spatial pattern of soil nutrients in desert ecosystems Ecology 77 364 374
45. W.H. Schlesinger J.F. Reynolds G.L. Cunningham L.F. Huenneke W.M. Jarrell R.A. Virginia W.G. Whitford 1990 Biological feedbacks in global desertification Science 247 1043 1048
46. E.E. Schulte J.B. Peters P.R. Hodgson 1987 Wisconsin Procedures for Soil Testing, Plant Analysis and Feed and Forage Analysis Department of Soil ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin Madison, WI
47. E.A.H Smithwick M.G. Turner M.C. Mack F.S. Chapin III 2005 Post-fire soil N cycling in northern conifer forests affected by severestand-replacing wildfires Ecosystems 8 163 181
48. KL Steenwerth LE Jackson FJ Calderon MR Stromberg KM Scow 2003 Soil microbial community composition and land use history in cultivated and grassland ecosystems of coastal California Soil Biol. Biochem. 35 489 500
49. D.B. Tinker W.H. Romme W.W. Hargrove R.H. Gardner M.G. Turner 1994 Landscape-scale heterogeneity in lodgepole pine serotiny Can. J. For. Res. 24 897 903
50. K. Treseder M.C. Mack A. Cross 2004 Relationships among fires, fungiand soil dynamics in Alaskan boreal forests Ecol. Appl. 14 1826 1838
51. M.R. Turetsky 2003 The role of bryophytes in carbon and nitrogen cycling Bryologist 106 395 409
52. M.G. Turner W.H. Romme R.H. Gardner W.H. Hargrove 1997 Effects of fire size and pattern on early succession in Yellowstone National Park Ecol. Monogr. 67 411 433
53. K. Van Cleve L.K. Oliver 1982 Growth response of postfire quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) to NP, and K fertilization Can. J. For. Res. 13 160 165
54. K. Van Cleve J. Yarie R. Erickson C.T. Dyrness 1993 Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in successional ecosystems on the Tanana River floodplain, interior Alaska Can. J. For. Res. 23 970 978
55. J.R. Vestal D.C. White 1989 Lipid analysis in microbial ecology Bioscience 39 535 541
56. L.A. Viereck K. Van Cleve P.C. Adams R.E. Schlentner 1993 Climate of the Tanana River floodplain near Fairbanks, Alaska Can. J. For. Res. 23 899 913
57. M.P. Waldrop T.C. Balser M.K. Firestone 2000 Linking microbial community composition to function in a tropical soil Soil Biol. Biochem. 32 1837 1846
58. M.P. Waldrop M.K. Firestone 2004 Altered utilization patterns of young and old soil C by microorganisms caused by temperature shifts and N additions Biogeochemistry 67 235 248
59. D.C. White D.B. Ringelberg 1998 Signature lipid biomarker analysis R.S. Burlage R. Atlas D. Stahl G. Geesey G. Sayler Techniques in Microbial Ecology Oxford University Press New York 255 272
60. J.A. Wiens 1989 Spatial scaling in ecology Functional Ecology 3 385 397
61. S.C. Wilkinson J.M. Anderson S.P. Scardelis M. Tisiafouli A. Taylor V. Wolters 2002 PLFA profiles of microbial communities in decomposing conifer litters subject to moisture stress Soil Biol. Biochem. 34 189 200
62. S.G. Wilkinson 1998 Gram negative bacteria C. Ratledge S.G. Wilkinson Microbial Lipids Academic Press London 299 488
63. J. Yarie 1981 Forest fire cycles and life tables: a case study from interior Alaska Can. J. For. Res. 11 554 562
64. Yarie J. and Van Cleve K. (in press). Controls on taiga forest production in interior Alaska. In: Chapin F.S. IIIOswood M., Van Cleve K., Viereck L. and Verbyla D. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
65. L Zelles QY Bai T Beck F Beese 1992 Signature fatty acids in phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides as indicators of microbial biomass and community structure in agricultural soils Soil Biol. Biochem 24 317 323