Forest floor microbial communities in relation to stand composition and timber harvesting in northern Alberta

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2565-2575

  Hannam, K D ^a   Quideau, S A ^a   Kishchuk, B E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal mixedwood forest; Clearcutting; Partial harvesting; Phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis; Substrate induced respiration (SIR); Trembling aspen; White spruce

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; HARVESTING; MICROBIOLOGY; SOILS;

BOREAL MIXEDWOOD FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACID (PLFA) ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATE-INDUCED RESPIRATION (SIR); TREMBLING ASPEN;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; CLEARCUTTING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOREST FLOOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MIXED FARMING; SILVICULTURE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TIMBER HARVESTING;

FORESTS; LIPIDS; PICEA ENGELMANNII; SILVICULTURE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA GLAUCA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 33846141042     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2006.03.015     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Bååth, E., 1980. Soil fungal biomass after clear-cutting of a pine forest in central Sweden. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 12, 495-500.
2. Bååth, E., Frostegård, Å., Pennenan, T., Fritze, H., 1995. Microbial community structure and pH response in relation to soil organic matter quality in wood-ash fertilized, clear-cut or burned coniferous forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 27, 229-240.
3. Bååth, E., Anderson, T.-H., 2003. Comparison of soil fungal/bacterial ratios in a pH gradient using physiological and PLFA-based techniques. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35, 955-963.
4. Balser, T.C., Firestone, M.K., 2005. Linking microbial community composition and soil processes in a California annual grassland and mixed-conifer forest. Biogeochemistry 73, 395-415.
5. Bartelt-Ryser, J., Joshi, J., Schmid, B., Brandl, H., Balser, T., 2005. Soil feedbacks of plant diversity on soil microbial communities and subsequent plant growth. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 7, 27-49.
6. Bergeron, Y., Flannigan, M., Gauthier, S., Leduc, A., Lefort, P., 2004. Past, current and future fire frequency in the Canadian boreal forest: implications for sustainable forest management. Ambio 33, 356-360.
7. 2 of microbial communities in forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30, 1269-1274.
8. Bligh, E.G., Dyer, W.J., 1959. A rapid method of total lipid extraction and purification. Canadian Journal of Biochemistry and Physiology 37, 911-917.
9. Bradley, R.L., Titus, B.D., Fyles, J.W., 1997. Nitrogen acquisition and competitive ability of Kalmia angustifolia L., paper birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.) and black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) seedlings grown on different humus forms. Plant and Soil 195, 209-220.
10. Brais, S., Harvey, B.D., Bergeron, Y., Messier, C., Greene, D., Belleau, A., Paré, D., 2004. Testing forest ecosystem management in boreal mixedwoods of northwestern Quebec: initial response of aspen stands to different levels of harvesting. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, 431-446.
11. Carney, K.M., Matson, P.A., 2005. Plant communities, soil microorganisms, and soil carbon cycling: does altering the world belowground matter to ecosystem functioning? Ecosystems 8, 928-940.
12. Clarke, K.R., 1993. Non-parametric multivariate analyses of changes in community structure. Australian Journal of Ecology 18, 117-143.
13. Côté, L., Brown, S., Paré, D., Fyles, J., Bauhus, J., 2000. Dynamics of carbon and nitrogen mineralization in relation to stand type, stand age and soil texture in the boreal mixedwood. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32, 1079-1090.
14. Degens, B.P., 1998. Microbial functional diversity can be influenced by the addition of simple organic substrates to soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30, 1981-1988.
15. Degens, B.P., Harris, J.A., 1997. Development of a physiological approach to measuring the catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 29, 1309-1320.
16. Degens, B.P., Vojvodić-Vuković, M., 1999. A sampling strategy to assess the effects of land use on microbial functional diversity in soils. Australian Journal of Soil Research 37, 593-601.
17. Degens, B.P., Schipper, L.A., Sparling, G.P., Duncan, L.C., 2001. Is the microbial community in a soil with reduced catabolic diversity less resistant to stress or disturbance? Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33, 1143-1153.
18. Dufrêne, M., Legendre, P., 1997. Species assemblages and indicator species: the need for a flexible asymmetrical approach. Ecological Monographs 67, 345-366.
19. EcoRegions Working Group. 1989. Ecoclimatic regions of Canada, First approximation. Ecological Land Classification Series No. 23. Environment Canada. Ottawa, ON, 118 pp.
20. Environment Canada. 2005. Canadian climate normals or averages 1971-2002: Eureka River, Alberta [online]. Available from http://climate.weatheroffice.ec. gc.ca/climate_normals [cited 7 November 2005].
21. Fenniak, T., 2001. Response of environmental variables and understory vegetation to various intensities of harvesting at the EMEND site, northern Alberta. M.Sc. thesis, University of Alberta. 117 pp.
22. Finér, L., Messier, C., De Grandpré, L., 1997. Fine-root dynamics in mixed boreal conifer - broad-leafed forest stands at different successional stages after fire. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27, 304-314.
23. Flanagan, P.W., Van Cleve, K., 1983. Nutrient cycling in relation to decomposition and organic-matter quality in taiga ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 13, 795-817.
24. Fox, J.F., Van Cleve, K., 1983. Relationships between cellulose decomposition, Jenny's k, forest-floor nitrogen, and soil temperature in Alaskan taiga forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 13, 789-794.
25. Frostegård, Å., Tunlid, A., Bååth, E., 1991. Microbial biomass measured as total lipid phosphate in soils of different organic content. Journal of Microbiological Methods 14, 151-163.
26. Frostegård, Å., Bååth, E., 1996. The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis to estimate bacterial and fungal biomass in soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils 22, 59-65.
27. Graham, M.H., Haynes, R.J., 2005. Catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities under sugarcane and other land uses estimated by Biolog and substrate-induced respiration methods. Applied Soil Ecology 29, 155-164.
28. Grayston, S.J., Griffith, G.S., Mawdsley, J.L., Campbell, C.D., Bardgett, R.D., 2001. Accounting for variability in soil microbial communities of temperate upland grassland ecosystems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33, 533-551.
29. Grayston, S.J., Prescott, C.E., 2005. Microbial communities in forest floors under four tree species in coastal British Columbia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37, 1157-1167.
30. Green, R.N., Trowbridge, R.L., Klinka, K., 1993. Towards a taxonomic classification of humus forms. For. Sci. Monograph 29 (Supplement to Forest Science 39). Soc. Am. Foresters, Bethesda, MD.
31. Hassett, J.E., Zak, D.R., 2005. Aspen harvest intensity decreases microbial biomass, extracellular enzyme activity, and soil nitrogen cycling. Soil Science Society of America Journal 69, 227-235.
32. Kishchuk, B.E., 2004. Soils of the Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance (EMEND) experimental area, northwestern Alberta. Inf. Report NOR-X-397. Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 136 pp.
33. Kruskal, J.B., 1964. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling: a numerical method. Psychometrika 29, 115-129.
34. Leckie, S.E., Prescott, C.E., Grayston, S.J., Neufeld, J.D., Mohn, W.W., 2004. Characterization of humus microbial communities in adjacent forest types that differ in nitrogen availability. Microbial Ecology 48, 29-40.
35. Legendre, P., Legendre, L., 1998. Numerical Ecology. 2nd ed. Developments in Environmental Modelling, vol. 20. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 853 pp.
36. Lindo, Z., Visser, S., 2003. Microbial biomass, nitrogen and phosphorus mineralization, and mesofauna in boreal conifer and deciduous forest floors following partial and clear-cut harvesting. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33, 1610-1620.
37. Lindo, Z., Visser, S., 2004. Forest floor microarthropod abundance and oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) composition following partial and clear-cut harvesting in the mixedwood boreal forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, 998-1006.
38. Malmivaara-Lämsä, M., Fritze, H., 2003. Effects of wear and above ground forest site type characteristics on the soil microbial community structure in an urban setting. Plant and Soil 256, 187-203.
39. Man, R., Lieffers, V.J., 1999. Are mixtures of aspen and white spruce more productive than single species stands? The Forestry Chronicle 75, 505-513.
40. Mather, P.M., 1976. Computational methods of multivariate analysis in physical geography. Wiley, London 532 pp.
41. McCune, B., Grace, J.G., 2002. Analysis of ecological communities. MJM Software Design, Gleneden Beach, OR 283 pp.
42. Merilä, P., Strömmer, R., Fritze, H., 2002. Soil microbial activity and community structure along a primary succession transect on the land-uplift coast in western Finland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34, 1647-1654.
43. Myers, R.T., Zak, D.R., White, D.C., Peacock, A., 2001. Landscape-level patterns of microbial community composition and substrate use in upland forest ecosystems. Soil Science Society of America Journal 65, 359-367.
44. Nilsson, M.-C., Wardle, D.A., 2005. Understory vegetation as a forest ecosystem driver: evidence from the northern Swedish boreal forest. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3, 421-428.
45. Olsson, P.A., 1999. Signature fatty acids provide tools for determination of the distribution and interactions of mycorrhizal fungi in soil. FEMS Microbiological Ecology 29, 303-310.
46. Pennanen, T., Liski, J., Bååth, E., Kitunen, F., Uotila, J., Westman, C.J., Fritze, H., 1999. Structure of the microbial communities in coniferous forest soils in relation to site fertility and stand development stage. Microbial Ecology 38, 168-179.
47. Prescott, C.E., Zabek, L.M., Staley, C.L., Kabzems, R., 2000. Decomposition of broadleaf and needle litter in forests of British Columbia: influences of litter type, forest type, and litter mixtures. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30, 1742-1750.
48. Prescott, C.E., Vesterdal, L., Preston, C.M., Simard, S.W., 2004. Influence of initial chemistry on decomposition of foliar litter in contrasting forest types in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, 1714-1729.
49. Priha, O., Grayston, S.J., Pennanen, T., Smolander, A., 1999. Microbial activities related to C and N cycling and microbial community structure in the rhizospheres of Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies and Betula pendula seedlings in an organic and mineral soil. FEMS Microbiology and Ecology 30, 187-199.
50. Priha, O., Grayston, S.J., Hiukka, R., Pennanen, T., Smolander, A., 2001. Microbial community structure and characteristics of the organic matter in soils under Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies and Betula pendula at two forest sites. Biology and Fertility of Soils 33, 17-24.
51. Rowe, J.S., 1956. Uses of undergrowth plant species in forestry. Ecology 37, 461-473.
52. Ruess, R.W., Van Cleve, K., Yarie, J., Viereck, L.A., 1996. Contributions of fine root production and turnover to the carbon and nitrogen cycling in taiga forests of the Alaskan interior. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 26, 1326-1336.
53. Saetre, P., Bååth, E., 2000. Spatial patterns of soil microbial community structure in a mixed spruce-birch stand. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32, 909-917.
54. Sidders, D.M., Spence, J.R., 2001. Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance - Research Study and Field Guide. Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, Edmonton, AB.
55. Siira-Pietikäinen, A., Haimi, J., Kanninen, A., Pietikäinen, J., Fritze, H., 2001b. Responses of decomposer community to root-isolation and addition of slash. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 33, 1993-2004.
56. Siira-Pietikäinen, A., Pietikäinen, J., Fritze, H., Haimi, J., 2001a. Short-term responses of soil decomposer communities to forest management: clear felling versus alternative forest harvesting methods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31, 88-99.
57. Soil Survey Staff. 1998. Keys to Soil Taxonomy, 8th ed. USDA-NRCS Agric. Handb. U.S. Gov. Print. Office, Washington, DC, 326 pp.
58. Spence, J., 2001. The new boreal forestry: adjusting timber management to accommodate biodiversity. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 16, 591-593.
59. Spence, J.R., Volney, W.J.A., 1999. EMEND Ecosystem management emulating natural disturbance. Sustainable forest management network, Edmonton, Alta. Report 1999-14.
60. Thomas, K.D., Prescott, C.E., 2000. Nitrogen availability in forest floors of three tree species on the same site: the role of litter quality. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30, 1698-1706.
61. White, D.C., Ringelberg, D.B., 1998. Signature lipid biomarker analysis. In: Burlage, R.S., Atlas, R., Stahl, D., Geesey, G., Sayler, G. (Eds.), Techniques in Microbial Ecology. Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 255-272.
62. White, C., Tardif, J.C., Adkins, A., Staniforth, R., 2005. Functional diversity of microbial communities in the mixed boreal plain forest of central Canada. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37, 1359-1372.
63. Wiken, E.B., 1986. Terrestrial EcoZones of Canada. Ecological Land Classification Series No. 19. Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ot, 26 pp.
64. Work, T.T., Shorthouse, D.P., Spence, J.R., Volney, W.J.A., Langor, D., 2004. Stand composition and structure of the boreal mixedwood and epigaeic arthropods of the Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance (EMEND) landbase in northwestern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, 417-430.
65. Zar, J.H., 1984. Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, pp. 239-241.