Lipid Biomarkers for Assessment of Microbial Communities in Floodplain Soils of the Elbe River (Germany)

Wetlands

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 353-362

  Langer, Uwe ^a   Rinklebe, Jrg ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cmic Corg ratio; Dehydrogenase activity (DHA); Phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA); Soil microbial carbon (Cmic); Wetland soils

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVISOL; FUNGUS; GLEYSOL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL RESPIRATION; WETLAND;

ELBE RIVER;

FUNGI;

EID: 70449352937     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/08-114.1     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Altermann, M., J. Rinklebe, I. Merbach, M. Kö rschens, U. Langer, and B. Hofmann. 2005. Chernozem - Soil of the year 2005. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 168:725-740
2. Anderson, J. P. E. and K. H. Domsch. 1978. A physiological method for the quantitative measurement of microbial biomass in soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 10:215-221
3. Anderson, T. H. and K. H. Domsch. 1989. Ratios of microbial biomass carbon to total organic carbon in arable soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 21:471-479
4. 2 and qD) on microbial biomasses from soils of different cropping histories. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 22:251-255
5. 2) as a specific activity parameter to assess the effects of environmental conditions, such as pH, on the microbial biomass of forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 25:393-395
6. Anderson, T. H. and R. G. Joergensen. 1997. Relationship between SIR and FE estimates of microbial biomass C in deciduous forest soils at different pH. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 29:1033-1042
7. Bååth, E. 2003. The use of neutral lipid fatty acids to indicate the physiological conditions of soil fungi. Microbial Ecology 45:373-383
8. Bååth, E., A. Frostegård, and H. Fritze. 1992. Soil bacterial biomass, activity, phospholipid fatty acid pattern, and pH tolerance in an area polluted with alkaline crust deposition. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 58:4026-4031
9. Bailey, V. L., A. D. Peacock, J. L. Smith, and H. Bolton, Jr. 2002. Relationships between soil microbial biomass determined by chloroform fumigation-extraction, substrate-induced respiration, and phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34:1385-1389
10. Baum, C. and K. Hrynkiewicz. 2006. Clonal and seasonal shifts in communities of saprotrophic microfungi and soil enzyme activities in the mycorrhizosphere of Salix spp. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 169:481-487
11. Bligh, E. and W. Dyer. 1959. A rapid method of total lipid extraction and purification. Canadian Journal of Biochemistry and Physiology 37:911-917
12. Bossio, D. A. and K. M. Scow. 1998. Impacts of carbon and flooding on soil microbial communities: phospholipids fatty acid profiles and substrate utilization patterns. Microbial Ecology 35:265-278
13. Bossio, D. A., K. M. Scow, N. Gunapala, and K. J. Graham. 1998. Determinants of soil microbial communities: effects of agricultural management, season, and soil type on phospholipid fatty acid profiles. Microbial Ecology 36:1-12.
14. Cronewitz, E., K. Dö rter, I. Lieberoth, and M. Pretzschel. 1974. Standortkundliche Beurteilung der wichtigsten Auenböden der DDR als Grundlage fü r acker- und pflanzenbauliche sowie meliorative Maßnahmen. Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science 18:121-133
15. Drenovsky, R. E., G. N. Elliott, K. J. Graham, and K. N. Scow. 2004. Comparison of phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) and total soil fatty acid methyl esters (TSFAME) for characterizing soil microbial communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36:1793-1800.
16. Emmerling, C. 1993. Nährstoffhaushalt und mikrobiologische Eigenschaften von Auenböden sowie die Besiedlung durch Bodentiere unter differenzierter Nutzung und Ü berschwemmungsdynamik. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Trier, Germany.
17. FAO/ISRIC/ISSS. 1998. World Base for Soil Resources. World Soil Resources Report 84. FAO, Rome, Italy.
18. Feng, Y., A. Motta, D. Reeves, C. Burmester, E. Van Santen, and J. Osborne. 2003. Soil microbial communities under conventional-till and no-till continuous cotton systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35:1693-1703.
19. Friedel, J. K., K. Mö lter, and W. R. Fischer. 1994. Comparison and improvement of methods for determining soil dehydrogenase activity by using triphenyltetrazolium chloride and iodonitrotetrazolium chloride. Biology and Fertility of Soils 18:291-296
20. Frostegård, å., A. Tunlid, and E. Bååth. 1991. Microbial biomass measured as total lipid phosphate in soils of different organic content. Journal of Microbiological Methods 14:151-163
21. Frostegård, å., A. Tunlid, and E. Båå th. 1993a. Phospholipid fatty acid composition, biomass, and activity of microbial communities from two soil types experimentally exposed to different heavy metals. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 59:3605-3617
22. Frostegård, å ., E. Bååth, and A. Tunlid. 1993b. Shifts in the structure of soil microbial communities in limed forests as revealed by phospholipid fatty acid analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 25:723-730
23. Green, C. T. and K. M. Scow. 2000. Analysis of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) to characterize microbial communities in aquifers. Hydrogeology Journal 8:126-141
24. Griffiths, B. S., H. L. Kuan, K. Ritz, L. A. Glover, A. E. McCaig, and C. Fenwick. 2004. The relationship between microbial community structure and functional stability, tested experimentally in an upland pasture soil. Microbial Ecology 47:104-113
25. Groffman, P. M., P. Eagan, W. M. SulliVan, and J. L. Lemunyon. 1996. Grass species and soil type effects on microbial biomass and activity. Plant and Soil 183:61-67.
26. Guckert, J. B., C. P. Antworth, P. D. Nichols, and D. C. White. 1985. Phospholipid, ester-linked fatty acid profiles as reproducible assays for changes in procaryotic community structure of estuarine sediments. FEMS Microbial Ecology 31:147-158
27. Heinemeyer, O., H. Insam, E. A. Kaiser, and G. Walenzik. 1989. Soil microbial biomass and respiration measurements: an automated technique based on infra-red gas analysis. Plant and Soil 1-6:191-195
28. Klamer, M. and E. Båå th. 2004. Estimation of conversion factors for fungal biomass determination in compost using ergosterol and PLFA 18:2v6,9. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36:57-65.
29. Klimanek, E. M. and C. Matejko. 1997. Die Wirkung von Schadstoffkontaminationen auf bodenbiologische Parameter von ausgewählten Flächen der Muldeaue. I. Mitteilung: Einfluss von Schadstoffbelastungen auf die mikrobielle Aktivität des Bodens. Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science 41:305-312
30. Kutilek, M. and D. R. Nielsen. 2007. Interdisciplinarity of hydropedology. Geoderma 138:252-260
31. Langer, U. and E. M. Klimanek. 2006. Soil microbial diversity of four German long-term field experiments. Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science 52:507-523
32. Lundquist, E. J., L. E. Jackson, and K. M. Scow. 1999b. Wet-dry cycles affect dissolved organic carbon in two California agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31:1031-1038
33. Lundquist, E. J., K. M. Scow, L. E. Jackson, S. L. Uesugi, and C. R. Johnson. 1999a. Rapid response of soil microbial communities from conventional, low input, and organic farming systems to a wet/dry cycle. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31:1661-1675
34. Macalady, J. L., E. E. Mack, D. C. Nelson, and K. M. Scow. 2000. Sediment microbial community structure and mercury methylation in mercury-polluted Clear Lake, California. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66:1479-1488
35. Mamilov, A. S. and O. Dilly. 2002. Soil microbial eco-physiology as affected by short-term variations in environmental conditions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34:1283-1290
36. McSpadden Gardener, B. and A. Lilley. 1997. Application of common statistical tools. p. 501-504 In J. Van Elsas, J. Trevors, and E. Wellington (eds.) Modern Soil Microbiology. Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, USA.
37. Megonigal, J. P., S. P. Faulkner, and W. H. Patrick. 1996. The microbial activity season in southeastern hydric soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 60:1263-1266
38. Morgan, J. and C. Winstanley. 1997. Microbial biomarkers. p. 331-352. In J. Van Elsas, J. Trevors, and E. Wellington (eds.) Modern Soil Microbiology. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, USA.
39. Munsell, A. H. 1994. Soil color charts. Revised Edition. Macbeth Division of Kollmorgan Instruments Corporation.
40. Overesch, M., J. Rinklebe, G. Broll, and H. U. Neue. 2007. Metals and arsenic in soils and corresponding vegetation at central Elbe river floodplains (Germany). Environmental Pollution 145:800-812
41. Pennanen, T. 2001. Microbial communities in boreal coniferous forest humus exposed to heavy metals and changes in soil pH -a summary of the use of phospholipid fatty acids, BiologH and 3H-thymidine incorporation methods in field studies. Geoderma 100:91-126.
42. Pennanen, T., Å Frostegård, H. Fritze, and E. Bååth. 1996. Phospholipid fatty acid composition and heavy metal tolerance of soil microbial communities along two heavy metal-polluted gradients in coniferous forests. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62:420-428
43. Praveen-Kumar, N. N. and J. C. Tarafdar. 2003. 2,3,5-Triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC) as electron acceptor of culturable soil bacteria, fungi and actinomycetes. Biology and Fertility of Soils 38:186-189
44. Rajendran, N., O. Matsuda, N. Imamura, and Y. Urushigawa. 1992. Variation in microbial biomass and community structure in sediments of eutrophic bays as determined by phospholipid ester-linked fatty acids. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 58:562-571
45. Ravit, B., Ehrenfeld, J. G., Häggblom, M. M., and M. Bartels. 2007. The effects of drainage and nitrogen enrichment on Phragmites australis, Spartina alterniflora, and their rootassociated microbial communities. Wetlands 27:915-927
46. Rinklebe, J. 2004. Differenzierung von Auenböden der Mittleren Elbe und Quantifizierung des Einflusses von deren Bodenkennwerten auf die mikrobielle Biomasse und die Bodenenzymaktivitäten von b-Glucosidase, Protease und alkalischer Phosphatase. Ph.D. Dissertation. Martin-Luther-Universitä t Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany.
47. Rinklebe, J., C. Franke, and H. U. Neue. 2007. Aggregation of floodplain soils as an instrument for predicting concentrations of nutrients and pollutants. Geoderma 141:210-223.
48. Rinklebe, J., K. Heinrich, and H. U. Neue. 2000a. Auenböden im Biosphä renreservat Mittlere Elbe - ihre Klassifikation und Eigenschaften. p. 37-46. In K. Friese, B. Witter, G. Miehlich, and M. Rode (eds.) Stoffhaushalt von Auenökosystemen. Böden und Hydrologie, Schadstoffe, Bewertungen. Springer Verlag.
49. Rinklebe, J., C. Helbach, F. Franke, and H. U. Neue. 2000b. Großmaßstäbige Bodenformenkarte der "Schöneberger Wiesen" bei Steckby im Biosphärenreservat Mittlere Elbe. (Large scale soil mapping of wetland soils at the Elbe river.) In German with English Summary. Angewandte Landschaftsökologie 37:325-328
50. Rinklebe, J. and U. Langer. 2006. Microbial diversity in three floodplain soils at the Elbe river (Germany). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38:2144-2151
51. Rinklebe, J. and U. Langer. 2008. Floodplain soils at the Elbe river, Germany, and their diverse microbial biomass. Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science 54:259-273
52. Schinner, F., R. Ö hlinger, E. Kandeler, and R. Margesin. 1993. Bodenbiologische Arbeitsmethoden. 2. Auflage. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Germany.
53. Schjønning, P.,I. K. Thomsen, P. Moldrup, and B. T. Christensen. 2003. Linking soil microbial activity to waterand air-phase contents and diffusivities. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67:156-165
54. Schlichting, E., H. P. Blume, and K. Stahr. 1995. Bodenkundliches Praktikum. Second Edition. Blackwell Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin, Wien.
55. Schubert, R., W. Hilbig, and S. Klotz. 1995. Bestimmungsbuch der Pflanzengesellschaften Mittel- und Nordostdeutschlands. G. Fischer, Jena-Stuttgart, Germany.
56. Smith, J. L. 1993. Cycling of nitrogen through microbial activity. p. 91-120. In J. Hatfield (ed.) AdVances in Soil Science. Vol 18. Springer-Verlag, New York, USA.
57. Söderberg, K. H., A. Probanza, A. Jumpponen, and E. Bååth. 2004. The microbial community in the rhizosphere determined by community-level physiological profiles (CLPP) and direct soil- and cfu-PLFA techniques. Applied Soil Ecology 25:135-145
58. Sparling, G. P. 1997. Soil microbial biomass, activity and nutrient cycling as indicators of soil health. p. 97-119. In C. E. Pankhurst, B. M. Doube, and V. V. S. R. Gupta (eds.) Biological Indicators of Soil Health. CAB International Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon, UK.
59. Tabatabai, M. A. 1982. Soil enzymes. p. 903-948 In A. L. Page and D. R. Keeney (eds.) Methods of soil analysis. Part 2: chemical and microbiological properties. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, USA.
60. Thalmann, A. 1968. Zur Methodik der Bestimmung der Dehydrogenaseaktivitä t im Boden mittels Triphenyltetrazoliumchlorid (TTC). Landwirtschaftliche Forschung 21:249-258
61. Tischer, S. 2005. Microbial biomass and enzyme activities on soil monitoring sites in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science 51:673-685
62. Vaisvalavicius, R., A. Motuzas, I. Prosycevas, L. Levinskaite, D. Zakarauskaite, K. Grigaliuniene, and V. Butkus. 2006. Effect of heavy metals on microbial communities and enzymatic activity in soil column experiment. Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science.
63. Vestal, J. R. and D. C. White. 1989. Lipid analysis in microbial ecology. Bioscience 39:535-541
64. Wälder, K., O. Wälder, J. Rinklebe, and J. Menz. 2008. Estimation of soil properties with geostatistical methods in floodplains. Archive of Agronomy and Soil Science 54:275-295
65. Wardle, D. A. 1992. A comparative assessment of factors which influence microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen levels in soil. Biological Review 67:321-358
66. Wardle, D. A. 1998. Controls of temporal variability of the soil microbial biomass: a global-scale synthesis. Review. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30:1627-1637
67. 2) as a bioindicator of disturbance and ecosystem development. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 27:1601-1610
68. White, D. C., W. M. Davis, J. S. Nickels, J. D. King, and R. J. Bobbie. 1979. Determination of the sedimentary microbial biomass by extractable lipid phosphate. Oecologia 40:51-62.
69. Williams, M. A. and C. W. Rice. 2007. Seven years of enhanced water availability influences the physiological, structural, and functional attributes of a soil microbial community. Applied Soil Ecology 35:535-545
70. Zelles, L. 1997. Phospholipid fatty acid profiles in selected members of soil microbial communities. Chemosphere 35:275-294
71. Zelles, L. 1999. Fatty acid patterns of phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides in the characterisation of microbial communities in soil: a review. Biology and Fertility of Soils 29:111-129