Tree species effects on soil organic matter dynamics: The role of soil cation composition

Ecosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 999-1018

  Hobbie, Sarah E ^a   Ogdahl, Megan ^a   Chorover, Jon ^b   Chadwick, Oliver A ^c   Oleksyn, Jacek ^a,d   Zytkowiak, Roma ^d   Reich, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF DENDROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Carbon; Decomposition; Microbial biomass; Nitrogen; Poland; Respiration; Soil organic matter; Trees

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITION; ALUMINUM; ANGIOSPERM; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOMASS; CATION; DECOMPOSITION; GYMNOSPERM; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RESPIRATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 37849051151     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9073-4     Document Type: Article

References (109)

1. Alban DH. 1982. Effects of nutrient accumulation by aspen, spruce and pine on soil properties. Soil Sci Soc Am J 46:853-61.
2. Alban DH, Berry EC. 1994. Effects of earthworm invasion on morphology, carbon, and nitrogen of a forest soil. Appl Soil Ecol 1:243-9.
3. Amacher MC, Hendersen RE, Breithaupt MD, Seale CL, LaBauve JM. 1990. Unbuffered and buffered salt methods for exchangeable cations and effective cation-exchange capacity. Soil Sci Soc Am J 54:1036-42.
4. Augusto L, Ranger J, Binkley D, Rothe A. 2002. Impact of several common tree species of European temperate forests on soil fertility. Ann For Sci 59:233-53.
5. Binkley D, Giardina C. 1998. Why do tree species affect soils? The warp and woof of tree-soil interactions. Biogeochemistry 42:89-106.
6. Bond-Lamberty B, Wang C, Gower ST. 2004. A global relationship between heterotrophic and autotrophic components of soil respiration? Glob Change Biol 10:1756-66.
7. Booth MS, Stark JM, Rastetter EB. 2005. Controls on nitrogen cycling in terrestrial ecosystems: a synthetic analysis of literature data. Ecol Monogr 75:139-57.
8. Bossuyt H, Six J, Hendrix PF. 2005. Protection of soil carbon by microaggregates within earthworm casts. Soil Biol Biochem 37:251-8.
9. Boudot J.-P, Bel Hadj Brahim A, Steiman R, Seigle-Murandi F. 1989. Biodegradation of synthetic organo-metallic complexes of iron and aluminium with selected metal to carbon ratios. Soil Biol Biochem 21:961-6.
10. Briggs JM, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Heisler JL, Hoch GA, Lett MS, McCarron JK. 2005. An ecosystem in transition: causes and consequences of the conversion of mesic grassland to shrubland. Bioscience 55:243-54.
11. Broadley MR, Bowen HC, Cotterill HL, Hammong JP, Meacham MC, Mead A, White PJ. 2003. Variation in the shoot calcium content of angiosperms. J Exp Bot 54:1431-46.
12. Brookes PC, Landman A, Pruden G, Jenkinson DS. 1985. Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: a rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil. Soil Biol Biochem 17:837-42.
13. Brynhildsen L, Rosswall T. 1997. Effects of metals on the microbial mineralization of organic acids. Water Air Soil Pollut 94:45-57.
14. Burke IC, Yonker CM, Parton WJ, Cole CV, Flach K, Schimel DS. 1989. Texture, climate, and cultivation effects on soil organic matter content in US grassland soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 53:800-5.
15. Callesen I, Raulund-Rasmussen K. 2004. Base cation, aluminum, and phosphorus release potential in Danish forest soils. J Plant Nutr Soil Sci 167:169-76.
16. Chen J, Stark JM. 2000. Plant species effects and carbon and nitrogen cycling in a sagebrush-crested wheatgrass soil. Soil Biol Biochem 32:47-57.
17. Chorover J, Amistadi MK. 2001. Reaction of forest floor organic matter at goethite, birnessite, and smectite surfaces. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 65:95-109.
18. Clough A, Skjemstad J. 2000. Physical and chemical protection of soil organic carbon in three agricultural soils with different contents of calcium carbonate. Aust J Soil Res 38:1005-16.
19. Craine J, Wedin DA, Chapin FS III, Reich PB. 2002. Relationship between the structure of root systems and resource use for 11 North American grassland plants. Plant Ecol 168:85-100.
20. De Boer W, Kowalchuk GA. 2001. Nitrification in acid soils: micro-organisms and mechanisms. Soil Biol Biochem 33:853-66.
21. Dijkstra FA. 2003. Calcium mineralization in the forest floor and surface soil beneath different tree species of the northeastern US. For Ecol Manag 175:185-94.
22. Dijkstra FA, Smits MM. 2002. Tree species effects on calcium cycling: the role of calcium uptake in deep soils. Ecosystems 5:385-98.
23. Dijkstra FA, Fitzhugh RD. 2003. Aluminum solubility and mobility in relation to organic carbon in surface soils affected by six tree species of the northeastern United States. Geoderma 114:33-47.
24. Dijkstra FA, Van Breemen N, Jongmans AG, Davies GR, Likens GR. 2002. Calcium weathering in forested soils and the effect of different tree species. Biogeochemistry 62:253-75
25. Dijkstra FA, Hobbie SE, Reich PB, Knops JMH. 2005. Divergent effects of elevated CO2, N fertilization, and plant diversity on soil C and N dynamics in a grassland field experiment. Plant and Soil 272:41-52.
26. Dijkstra FA, Hobbie SE, Reich PB. 2006. Soil processes affected by sixteen grassland species grown under different environmental conditions. Soil Sci Soc Am J 70:770-7.
27. Eviner VT, Chapin FS III. 2003. Functional matrix: a conceptual framework for predicting multiple plant effects on ecosystem processes. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 34:455-85.
28. Fierer N, Jackson RB. 2006. The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities. Proc Nat Acad Sci 103:626-31.
29. Finzi AC, Canham CD, Van Breemen N. 1998a. Canopy tree-soil interactions within temperate forests: species effects on pH and cation. Ecol Appl 8:447-54.
30. Finzi AC, Van Breemen N, Canham CD. 1998b. Canopy tree-soil interactions within temperate forests: species effects on soil carbon and nitrogen. Ecol Appl 8:440-6.
31. Gärdenäs AI. 1998. Soil organic matter in European forest floors in relation to stand characteristics and environmental factors. Scand J For Res 13:274-283.
32. Gee GW, Or D. 2002. Particle size analysis. In: Dane JH, Topp GC, Eds. Methods of soil analysis, Part 4. Physical methods. Soil Sci. Am. Book Series No. 5. Madison: ASA and SSSA. pp 272-8
33. Giesler R, Högberg M, Högberg P. 1998. Soil chemistry and plants in Fennoscandian boreal forest as exemplified by a local gradient. Ecology 79:119-37.
34. Gower ST, Son Y. 1992. Differences in soil and leaf litterfall nitrogen dynamics for five forest plantations. Soil Sci Soc Am J 56:1959-66.
35. Groffman PM, Fisk MC, Driscoll CT, Likens GE, Fahey TJ, Eagar C, Pardo LH. 2006. Calcium additions and microbial nitrogen cycle processes in a northern hardwood forest. Ecosystems 9:1289-1305.
36. Gundale MJ. 2002. Influence of exotic earthworms on the soil organic horizon and the rare fern Botrychium mormo. Conserv Biol 16:1555-61.
37. Hale CM, Frelich LE, Reich PB, Pastor J. 2005. Effects of European earthworm invasion on soil characteristics in northern hardwood forests of Minnesota, USA. Ecosystems 8:911-27.
38. Harder W, Dijkhuizen L. 1983. Physiological responses to nutrient limitation. Annu Rev Microbiol 37:1-23.
39. Hart SC, Nason GE, Myrold DD, Perry DA. 1994. Dynamics of gross nitrogen transformations in an old-growth forest: the carbon connection. Ecology 75:880-91.
40. Hedges JI, Ertel JR. 1982. Characterization of lignin by gas capillary chromatography of cupric oxide oxidation products. Anal Chem 54:174-8.
41. Hobbie SE. 1992. Effects of plant species on nutrient cycling. Trends Ecol Evol 7:336-9.
42. Hobbie SE, Reich PB, Oleksyn J, Ogdahl M, Zytkowiak R, Hale C, Karolewski P. 2006. Tree species effects on decomposition and forest floor dynamics in a common garden. Ecology 87:2288-97.
43. Högberg M, Myrold DD, Giesler R, Högberg P. 2006. Contrasting patterns of soil N-cycling in model ecosystems of Fennoscandian boreal forests. Oecologia 147:96-107.
44. Hooper DU, Vitousek PM. 1998. Effects of plant composition and diversity on nutrient cycling. Ecol Monogr 68:121-49.
45. Hsieh YP. 1992. Pool size and mean residence time of stable soil organic carbon in cropland. Soil Sci Soc Am J 56:460-4.
46. Illmer P, Schinner F. 1997. Influence of aluminum on motility and swarming of Pseudomonas sp. and Arthrobacter sp. FEMS Microbiol Lett 155:121-4.
47. Illmer P, Ulrike O, Schinner F. 2003. Microbiological properties in acidic forest soils with special consideration of KCl extractable Al. Water Air Soil Pollut 148:3-14.
48. Jackson RB, Banner JL, Jobbagy EG, Pockman WT, Wall DH. 2002. Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands. Nature 418:623-6.
49. Jastrow JD, Miller RM, Lussenhop J. 1998. Contributions of interacting biological mechanisms to soil aggregate stabilization in restored prairie. Soil Biol Biochem 30:905-16.
50. Johansson M.-B, Kögel I, Zech W. 1986. Changes in the lignin fraction of spruce and pine needle litter during decomposition as studied by some chemical methods. Soil Biol Biochem 18:611-9.
51. Johnson D, Booth RE, Whiteley AS, Bailey MJ, Read DJ, Grime JP, Leake JR. 2003. Plant community composition affects the biomass, activity and diversity of microorganisms in limestone grassland soil. Eur J Soil Sci 54:671-7.
52. Kiem R, Kögel-Knabner I. 2003. Contribution of lignin and polysaccharides to the refractory carbon pool in C-depleted arable soils. Soil Biol Biochem 35:101-18.
53. Kögel-Knabner I. 2002. The macromolecular organic composition of plant and microbial residues as inputs to soil organic matter. Soil Biol Biochem 34:139-62.
54. Kramer MG, Sollins P, Sletten RS, Swart PK. 2003. N isotope fractionation and measures of organic matter alteration during decomposition. Ecology 84:2021-25.
55. Kuzyakov Y. 2002. Review: factors affecting rhizosphere priming effects. J Plant Nutr Soil Sci 165:382-96.
56. 2 effluxes under 10 tree species on contrasting soil types. Can J For Res 35:1277-84.
57. Lelong F, Dupraz C, Durand P, Didon-Lescot JF. 1990. Effects of vegetation type on the biogeochemistry of small catchments (Mont Lozere, France). J Hydrol 116:125-45.
58. Likens GE, Driscoll CT, Buso DC. 1996. Long-term effects of acid rain: response and recovery of a forest ecosystem. Science 272:244-6.
59. Likens GE, Driscoll CT, Buso DC, Siccama TG, Johnson CE, Lovett GM, Fahey TJ, Reiners WA, Ryan DF, Martin CW, Bailey SW. 1998. The biogeochemistry of calcium at Hubbard Brook. Biogeochemistry 41:89-173.
60. Loeppert RH, Inskeep WP 1996. Iron In: Sparks DL, Ed. Methods of soil analysis, Part 3. Chemical methods. Soil Sci. Am. Book Series, No. 5. Madison: ASA and SSSA. pp 632-50.
61. Lovett GM, Weathers KC, Arthur MA, Schultz JC. 2004. Nitrogen cycling in a northern hardwood forest: Do species matter? Biogeochemistry 67:289-308.
62. Mack MC, D'Antonio CM. 2003. Exotic grasses alter controls over soil nitrogen dynamics in a Hawaiian woodland. Ecol Appl 13:154-66.
63. Mack MC, D'Antonio DM, Ley RE. 2001. Alteration of ecosystem nitrogen dynamics by exotic plants: A case study of C4 grasses in Hawaii. Ecol Appl 11:1323-35.
64. Mulder J, De Wit HA, Boonen HWJ, Bakken LR. 2001. Increased levels of aluminium in forest soils: effects on the stores of soil organic carbon. Water Air Soil Pollut 130:989-94.
65. 2O. Aust J Soil Res 27:401-9.
66. Munter RC, Grande RA. 1981. Plant tissue and soil extract analysis by ICP-AES. In: Barnes RM, ed. Developments in atomic plasma spectrochemical analysis. Philadephia: Heydon and Son. pp 653-73.
67. Muys B, Lust N. 1992. Inventory of earthworm communities and the state of litter decomposition in the forests of Flanders, Belgium, and its implications for forest management. Soil Biol Biochem 24:1677-81.
68. Neff JC, Asner GP. 2001. Dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems: synthesis and a model. Ecosystems 4:29-48.
69. Nihlgård B. 1971. Pedological influence of spruce planted on former beech forest soils in Scania, South Sweden. Oikos 22:302-14.
70. Oades JM. 1988. The retention of organic matter in soils. Biogeochemistry 5:35-70.
71. Oades JM, Waters AG. 1991. Aggregate hierarchy in soils. Aust J Soil Res 29:815-28.
72. Olson JS. 1963. Energy storage and the balance of producers and decomposers in ecological systems. Ecology 44:322-31.
73. Oostra S, Majdi H, Olsson M. 2006. Impact of tree species on soil carbon stocks and soil acidity in southern Sweden. Scand J For Res 21:364-71.
74. Oste LA, Temminghoff EJM, Van Riemsdijk WH. 2002. Solid-solution partitioning of organic matter in soils as influenced by an increase in pH or Ca concentration. Environ Sci Technol 36:208-14.
75. Ovington JD. 1958. Studies of the development of woodland conditions under different trees: VII. Soil calcium and magnesium. J Ecol 46:391-405.
76. Park J-H, Kalbitz K, Matzner E. 2002. Resource control on the production of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in a deciduous forest floor. Soil Biol Biochem 34:813-22.
77. Parton WJ, Mosier AR, Schimel DS. 1988. Dynamics of C, N, P, and S in grassland soils: a model. Biogeochemistry 5:109-31.
78. Paul EA, Morris SJ, Six J, Paustian K, Gregorich EG. 2003. Interpretation of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in agricultural and afforested soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 67:1620-28
79. Percival HJ, Parfitt RL, Scott NA. 2000. Factors controlling soil carbon levels in New Zealand grasslands: is clay content important? Soil Sci Soc Am J 64:1623-30
80. Preston CM, Trofymow JA. 2000. Variability in litter quality and its relationship to litter decay in Canadian forests. Can J Bot 78:1269-87
81. 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with cross-polarization and magic-angle spinning investigation of the proximate analysis fractions used to assess litter quality in decomposition studies. Can J Bot 75:1601-13
82. Raulund-Rasmussen K, Vejre H. 1995. Effect of tree species and soil properties on nutrient immobilization in the forest floor. Plant Soil 168-169:345-52
83. Reich PB, Grigal DF, Aber JD, Gower ST. 1997. Nitrogen mineralization and productivity in 50 hardwood and conifer stands on diverse soils. Ecology 78:335-47
84. Reich PB, Peterson DW, Wedin DA, Wrage K. 2001. Fire and vegetation effects on productivity and nitrogen cycling across a forest-grassland continuum. Ecology 82:1703-19
85. Reich PB, Oleksyn J, Modrzynski J, Mrozinski P, Hobbie SE, Eissenstat DM, Chorover J, Chadwick OA, Hale CM, Tjoelker MG. 2005. Linking litter calcium, earthworms and soil properties: a common garden test with 14 tree species. Ecol Lett 8:811-8
86. Rhoades JD. 1996. Salinity: electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids. In: Sparks DL, Ed. Methods of soil analysis, Part 3. Chemical methods. Soil Sci. Am. Book Series, No. 5. Madison: ASA and SSSA. pp 417-35
87. Robertson GP. 1982. Nitrification in forested ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biol Sci 296:445-57
88. Schoeneberger PJ, Wysocki DA, Benham EC, Broderson WD. 1998. Field book for describing and sampling soils. Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE
89. Scott NA, Binkley D. 1997. Foliage litter quality and annual net N mineralization: comparison across North American forest sites. Oecologia 111:151-9
90. Six J, Conant RT, Paul EA, Paustian K. 2002. Stabilization mechanisms of soil organic matter: implications for C-saturation of soils. Plant Soil 241:155-76
91. Skjemstad JO. 1992. Genesis of podzols on coastal dunes in Southern Queensland. III. The role of aluminium-organic complexes in profile development. Aust J Soil Res 30:645-65
92. Sollins P, Homann P, Caldwell BA. 1996. Stabilization and destabilization of soil organic matter: mechanisms and controls. Geoderma 74:65-105
93. Staff SS. 1999. Taxonomy: a basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil survey, 2nd edn. Washington: US Government Printing Office
94. Staff SSL. 1992. Soil survey laboratory methods manual. Soil Survey Investigations Report 42:USDA
95. Stevenson FJ. 1994. Humus chemistry: genesis, composition, and reactions, 2nd edn. New York: Wiley
96. Thomas KD, Prescott CE. 2000. Nitrogen availability in forest floors of three tree species on the same site: the role of litter quality. Can J For Res 30:1698-706
97. Trumbore S. 2000. Age of soil organic matter and soil respiration: radiocarbon constraints on belowground C dynamics. Ecol Appl 10:399-411
98. Van Soest PJ. 1994. Nutritional ecology of the ruminant, 2nd edn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
99. van Vuuren MMI, Aerts R, Berendse F, de Visser W. 1992. Nitrogen mineralization in heathland ecosystems dominated by different plant species. Biogeochemistry 16:151-66
100. Varadachari C, Mondal AH, Ghosh K. 1991. Some aspects of clay-humus complexation: effect of exchangeable cations and lattice charge. Soil Sci 151:220-7
101. Venterea RT, Lovett GM, Groffman PM, Schwarz PA. 2003. Landscape patterns of net nitrification in a northern hardwood-conifer forest. Soil Biol Biochem 67:527-39
102. Vinton MA, Burke IC. 1997. Contingent effects of plant species on soils along a regional moisture gradient in the Great Plains. Oecologia 110:393-402
103. Walters MB, Reich PB. 1997. Growth of Acer saccharum seedlings in deeply shaded understories of northern Wisconsin: effects of nitrogen and water availability. Can J For Res 27:237-47
104. Wang W, Smith CJ, Chalk PM, Chen D. 2001. Evaluating chemical and physical indices of nitrogen mineralization capacity with an unequivocal reference. Soil Sci Soc Am J 65:368-76
105. Wedin DA, Tilman D. 1990. Species effects on nitrogen cycling: a test with perennial grasses. Oecologia 84:433-41
106. Weisberg S. 2005. Applied linear regression, 3rd edn. Hoboken: Wiley
107. Withington JM, Reich PB, Oleksyn J, Eissenstat DM. 2006. Comparisons of structure and life span in roots and leaves among temperate trees. Ecol Monogr 76:381-97
108. Zak DR, Holmes WE, White DC, Peacock AD, Tilman D. 2003. Plant diversity, soil microbial communities, and ecosystem function: are there any links? Ecology 84:2042-50
109. Zak DR, Tilman D, Parmenter RR, Rice CW, Fisher FM, Vose J, Milchunas D, Martin CW. 1994. Plant production and soil microorganisms in late-successional ecosystems: a continental-scale study. Ecology 75:2333-47