A new conceptual model for the fate of lignin in decomposing plant litter

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1052-1062

  Klotzbücher, Thimo ^a   Kaiser, Klaus ^b   Guggenberger, Georg ^c   Gatzek, Christiane ^d   Kalbitz, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

C availability; Dissolved organic matter; Lignin; Plant litter decomposition; Respiration rates

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; LABORATORY METHOD; LEAF LITTER; LIGNIN; LIMITING FACTOR; LITTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIDE; PHENOL; RESPIRATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SORBUS;

EID: 79955882835     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1307.1     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Adair, E. C, W. J. Parton, S. J. Del Grosso, W. L. Silver, M. E. Harmon, S. A. Hall, I. C. Burke, and S. C. Hart. 2008. Simple three-pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term litter decomposition in diverse climates. Global Change Biology 14:2636-2660.
2. Austin, A. T., and C. L. Ballaré. 2010. Dual role of lignin in plant litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107:4618-4622.
3. Bahri, H., D. P. Rasse, C. Rumpel, M. F. Dignac, G. Bardoux, and A. Mariotti. 2008. Lignin degradation during a laboratory incubation followed by 13C isotope analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:1916-1922.
4. Bengtson, P., and G. Bengtsson. 2007. Rapid turnover of DOC in temperate forests accounts for increased CO2 production at elevated temperatures. Ecology Letters 10:783-790. (Pubitemid 47174407)
5. Berg, B. 2000. Litter decomposition and organic matter turnover in northern forest soils. Forest Ecology and Management 133:13-22. (Pubitemid 30597733)
6. Berg, B., and C. McClaugherty. 2008. Plant litter: decomposition, humus formation, carbon sequestration. Second edition. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.
7. Berg, B., and H. Staaf. 1980. Decomposition rate and chemical changes of Scots pine litter. II. Influence of chemical composition. Ecological Bulletins 32:373-390.
8. Borken, W., and E. Matzner. 2009. Reappraisal of drying and wetting effects on C and N mineralization and fluxes in soils. Global Change Biology 15:808-824.
9. Burford, J. R., and J. M. Bremner. 1975. Relationships between denitrification capacities of soils and total, water-soluble and readily decomposable soil organic-matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 7:389-394.
10. Couteaux, M. M., P. Bottner, and B. Berg. 1995. Litter decomposition, climate and litter quality. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:63-66.
11. Couteaux, M. M., K. B. McTiernan, B. Berg, D. Szuberla, P. Dardenne, and P. Bottner. 1998. Chemical composition and carbon mineralisation potential of Scots pine needles at different stages of decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30:583-595. (Pubitemid 28244453)
12. Day, T. A., E. T. Zhang, and C. T. Ruhland. 2007. Exposure to UV-B radiation accelerates mass and lignin loss of Larrea tridentate litter in the Sonoran Desert. Plant Ecology 193:185-194. (Pubitemid 47624459)
13. Dignac, M. F., N. Pechot, M. Thevenot, C. Lapierre, H. Bahri, G. Bardoux, and C. Rumpel. 2009. Isolation of soil lignins by combination of ball-milling and cellulolysis: evaluation of purity and isolation efficiency with pyrolysis/GC/MS. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 85:426-430.
14. Don, A., and K. Kalbitz. 2005. Amounts and degradability of dissolved organic carbon from foliar litter at different decomposition stages. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37:2171-2179. (Pubitemid 41757544)
15. Fang, C. M., and J. B. Moncrieff. 2005. The variation of soil microbial respiration with depth in relation to soil carbon composition. Plant and Soil 268:243-253. (Pubitemid 40886251)
16. Fontaine, S., G. Bardoux, L. Abbadie, and A. Mariotti. 2004. Carbon input to soil may decrease soil carbon content. Ecology Letters 7:314-320. (Pubitemid 38484955)
17. Hagedorn, F., and M. Machwitz. 2007. Controls on dissolved organic matter leaching from forest litter grown under elevated atmospheric CO2. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39:1759-1769. (Pubitemid 46617676)
18. Hedges, J. I., R. A. Blanchette, K. Weliky, and A. H. Devol. 1988. Effects of fungal degradation on the CuO oxidation products of lignin: a controlled laboratory study. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 52:2717-2726.
19. Hedges, J. I., and J. R. Ertel. 1982. Characterization of lignin by gas capillary chromatography of cupric oxide oxidation products. Analytical Chemistry 54:174-178.
20. Herman, J., D. Moorhead, and B. Berg. 2008. The relationship between rates of lignin and cellulose decay in aboveground forest litter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:2620-2626.
21. Johansson, M. B., I. Kögel, and W. Zech. 1986. Changes in the lignin fraction of spruce and pine needle litter during decomposition as studied by some chemical methods. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 18:611-619.
22. Kalbitz, K., K. Kaiser, J. Bargholz, and P. Dardenne. 2006. Lignin degradation controls the production of dissolved organic matter in decomposing foliar litter. European Journal of Soil Science 57:504-516. (Pubitemid 43965919)
23. Kemmitt, S. J., C. V. Lanyon, I. S. Waite, Q. Wen, T. M. Addiscott, N. R. A. Bird, A. G. O'Donnell, and P. C. Brookes. 2008. Mineralization ofnative soil organic matter is not regulated by the size, activity or composition of the soil microbial biomass: a new perspective. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40:61-73. (Pubitemid 47588310)
24. Kirk, T. K., and R. L. Farrell. 1987. Enzymatic combustion: the microbial degradation of lignin. Annual Review of Microbiology 41:465-505.
25. Kögel, I. 1986. Estimation and decomposition pattern of the lignin component in forest humus layers. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 18:589-594.
26. Kögel-Knabner, I. 2002. The macromolecular organic composition of plant and microbial residues as inputs to soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34:139-162. (Pubitemid 34115576)
27. Lundquist, E. J., L. E. Jackson, and K. M. Scow. 1999. Wet-dry cycles affect dissolved organic carbon in two California agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 31:1031-1038. (Pubitemid 29235541)
28. Marschner, B., and A. Bredow. 2002. Temperature effects on release and ecologically relevant properties of dissolved organic carbon in sterilised and biologically active soil samples. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34:459-466. (Pubitemid 34315723)
29. Marschner, B., and K. Kalbitz. 2003. Controls of bioavailability and biodegradability of dissolved organic matter in soils. Geoderma 113:211-235. (Pubitemid 36325953)
30. Miltner, A., and W. Zech. 1998. Beech leaf litter lignin degradation and transformation as influenced by mineral phases. Organic Geochemistry 28:457-463. (Pubitemid 28295451)
31. Moorhead, D. L., and R. L. Sinsabaugh. 2006. A theoretical model of litter decay and microbial interaction. Ecological Monographs 76:151-174.
32. Nordgren, A. 1988. Apparatus for the continuous, long-term monitoring of soil respiration rate in large numbers of samples. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 20:955-957.
33. Osono, T. 2007. Ecology of ligninolytic fungi associated with leaf litter decomposition. Ecological Research 22:955-974. (Pubitemid 50001764)
34. Otto, A., and M. J. Simpson. 2006. Evaluation of CuO oxidation parameters for determining the source and stage of lignin degradation in soil. Biogeochemistry 80:121-142. (Pubitemid 44470272)
35. Prescott, C. E. 2005. Do rates of litter decomposition tell us anything we really need to know? Forest Ecology and Management 220:66-74.
36. Preston, C. M., J. R. Nault, and J. A. Trofymow. 2009. Chemical changes during 6 years of decomposition of 11 litters in some Canadian forest sites. Part 2. 13C abundance, solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy and the meaning of "lignin." Ecosystems 12:1078-1102.
37. 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. Canadian Journal of Botany 75:1601-1613. (Pubitemid 28025679)
38. Rumpel, C., I. Kögel-Knabner, and F. Bruhn. 2002. Vertical distribution, age, and chemical composition of organic, carbon in two forest soils of different pedogenesis. Organic Geochemistry 33:1131-1142. (Pubitemid 35235433)
39. Sjöberg, G., S. I. Nilsson, T. Persson, and P. Karlsson. 2004. Degradation of hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin in decomposing spruce needle litter in relation to N. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36:1761-1768. (Pubitemid 39218855)
40. 13C NMR and IR-Spectra of spruce and pine litter and of the Klason lignin fraction at different stages of decomposition. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 150:262-265.
41. Zhao, M. X., J. B. Zhou, and K. Kalbitz. 2008. Carbon mineralization and properties of water-extractable organic carbon in soils of the south Loess Plateau in China. European Journal of Soil Biology 44:158-165.