Soil disturbance alters plant community composition and decreases mycorrhizal carbon allocation in a sandy grassland

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 809-819

  Schnoor, Tim Krone ^a   Mårtensson, Linda Maria ^a   Olsson, Pål Axel ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Fatty acid; Grassland; Soil fungi; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FATTY ACID; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AMMONIUM; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BIOMASS; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; FATTY ACID; FORAGE; FUNGUS; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GRASSLAND SOIL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLOWING; SAND; SAPROTROPHY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPES; FATTY ACIDS; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ARBUSCULAR; FESTUCA BREVIPILA; FUNGI; POACEAE;

EID: 80054015080     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2020-2     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Allison VJ, Miller RM, Jastrow JD, Matamala R, Zak DR (2005) Changes in soil microbial community structure in a tallgrass prairie chronosequence. Soil Sci Soc Am J 69: 1412-1421.
2. Ames RN, Reid CPP, Ingham ER (1984) Rhizosphere bacterial population responses to root colonization by a vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. New Phytol 96: 555-563.
3. Antunes PM, Koch AM, Dunfield KE, Hart MM, Downing A, Rillig MC, Klironomos JN (2009) Influence of commercial inoculation with Glomus intraradices on the structure and functioning of an AM fungal community from an agricultural site. Plant Soil 317: 257-266.
4. Bago B, Pfeffer PE, Shachar-Hill Y (2000) Carbon metabolism and transport in arbuscular mycorrhizas. Plant Physiol 124: 949-957.
5. Beare MH, Hendrix PF, Coleman DC (1994) Water-stable aggregates and organic matter fractions in conventional- and no-tillage soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 58: 777-786.
6. Bellgard SE (1993) Soil disturbance and infection of Trifolium repens roots by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Mycorrhiza 3: 25-29.
7. Bever JD (1999) Dynamics within mutualism and the maintenance of diversity: inference from a model of interguild frequency dependence. Ecol Lett 2: 52-62.
8. Boschker HTS, Middelburg JJ (2002) Stable isotopes and biomarkers in microbial ecology. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 40: 85-95.
9. Boschker HTS, Nold SC, Wellsbury P, Bos D, de Graaf W, Pel R, Parkes RJ, Cappenberg TE (1998) Direct linking of microbial populations to specific biogeochemical processes by C-13-labelling of biomarkers. Nature 392: 801-805.
10. Butler JL, Williams MA, Bottomley PJ, Myrold DD (2003) Microbial community dynamics associated with rhizosphere carbon flow. Appl Environ Microbiol 69: 6793-6800.
11. Carey EV, Marler MJ, Callaway RM (2004) Mycorrhizae transfer carbon from a native grass to an invasive weed: evidence from stable isotopes and physiology. Plant Ecol 172: 133-141.
12. Castillo CG, Rubio R, Rouanet JL, Borie F (2006) Early effects of tillage and crop rotation on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal propagules in an Ultisol. Biol Fert Soils 43: 83-92.
13. Denef K, Roobroeck D, Manimel Wadu MCW, Lootens P, Boeckx P (2009) Microbial community composition and rhizodeposit-carbon assimilation in differently managed temperate grassland soils. Soil Biol Biochem 41: 144-153.
14. Drigo B, Pijl AS, Duyts H, Kielak A, Gamper HA, Houtekamer MJ, Boschker HTS, Bodelier PLE, Whiteley AS, van Veen JA, Kowalchuk GA (2010) Shifting carbon flow from roots into associated microbial communities in response to elevated atmospheric CO2. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 107: 10938-10942.
15. Drijber RA, Doran JW, Parkhurst AM, Lyon DJ (2000) Changes in soil microbial community structure with tillage under long-term wheat-fallow management. Soil Biol Biochem 32: 1419-1430.
16. Dupre C, Diekmann M (2001) Differences in species richness and life-history traits between grazed and abandoned grasslands in southern Sweden. Ecography 24: 275-286.
17. Francis R, Read DJ (1984) Direct transfer of carbon between plants connected by vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelium. Nature 307: 53-56.
18. Freibauer A, Rounsevell MDA, Smith P, Verhagen J (2004) Carbon sequestration in the agricultural soils of Europe. Geoderma 122: 1-23.
19. Galvez L, Douds DD, Drinkwater LE, Wagoner P (2001) Effect of tillage and farming system upon VAM fungus populations and mycorrhizas and nutrient uptake of maize. Plant Soil 228: 299-308.
20. Grime JP, Mackey JML, Hillier SH, Read DJ (1987) Floristic diversity in a model system using experimental microcosms. Nature 328: 420-422.
21. Harley JL, Harley EL (1987) A check-list of mycorrhiza in the British flora. New Phytol 105(s1): 1-102.
22. Hart MM, Reader RJ, Klironomos JN (2003) Plant coexistence mediated by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Trend Ecol Evol 18: 418-423.
23. He XH, Critchley C, Bledsoe C (2003) Nitrogen transfer within and between plants through common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs). Crit Rev Plant Sci 22: 531-567.
24. Hedlund K (2002) Soil microbial community structure in relation to vegetation management on former agricultural land. Soil Biol Biochem 34: 1299-1307.
25. Helgason T, Daniell TJ, Husband R, Fitter AH, Young JPW (1998) Ploughing up the wood-wide web? Nature 394: 431.
26. Jakobsen I, Rosendahl L (1990) Carbon flow into soil and external hyphae from roots of mycorrhizal cucumber plants. New Phytol 115: 77-83.
27. Jansa J, Mozafar A, Anken T, Ruh R, Sanders IR, Frossard E (2002) Diversity and structure of AMF communities as affected by tillage in a temperate soil. Mycorrhiza 12: 225-234.
28. Jansa J, Mozafar A, Kuhn G, Anken T, Ruh R, Sanders IR, Frossard E (2003) Soil tillage affects the community structure of mycorrhizal fungi in maize roots. Ecol Appl 13: 1164-1176.
29. Kytoviita MM, Vestberg M, Tuom J (2003) A test of mutual aid in common mycorrhizal networks: established vegetation negates benefit in seedlings. Ecology 84: 898-906.
30. Ladygina N, Hedlund K (2010) Plant species influence microbial diversity and carbon allocation in the rhizosphere. Soil Biol Biochem 42: 162-168.
31. Lal R (2003) Global potential of soil carbon sequestration to mitigate the greenhouse effect. Crit Rev Plant Sci 22: 151-184.
32. Larsen J, Olsson PA, Jakobsen I (1998) The use of fatty acid signatures to study mycelial interactions between the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices and the saprotrophic fungus Fusarium culmorum in root-free soil. Mycol Res 102: 1491-1496.
33. 2)-C-13 pulse-labelling in an upland grassland. Appl Soil Ecol 33: 152-175.
34. McGonigle TP, Miller MH, Young D (1999) Mycorrhizae, crop growth, and crop phosphorus nutrition in maize-soybean rotations given various tillage treatments. Plant Soil 210: 33-42.
35. Meyer JR, Linderman RG (1986) Selective influence on populations of rhizosphere or rhizoplane bacteria and actinomycetes by mycorrhizas formed by Glomus fasciculatum. Soil Biol Biochem 18: 191-196.
36. Miller MH, McGonigle TP, Addy HD (1995) Functional ecology of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizas as influenced by phosphate fertilization and tillage in an agricultural ecosystem. Crit Rev Biotechnol 15: 241-255.
37. Mozafar A, Anken T, Ruh R, Frossard E (2000) Tillage intensity, mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal fungi, and nutrient concentrations in maize, wheat, and canola. Agron J 92: 1117-1124.
38. Nakano-Hylander A, Olsson PA (2007) Carbon allocation in mycelia of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi during colonisation of plant seedlings. Soil Biol Biochem 39: 1450-1458.
39. Olsson PA (1999) Signature fatty acids provide tools for determination of the distribution and interactions of mycorrhizal fungi in soil. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 29: 303-310.
40. Olsson PA, Johnson NC (2005) Tracking carbon from the atmosphere to the rhizosphere. Ecol Lett 8: 1264-1270.
41. Olsson PA, Baath E, Jakobsen I (1997) Phosphorus effects on the mycelium and storage structures of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus as studied in the soil and roots by analysis of fatty acid signatures. Appl Environ Microbiol 63: 3531-3538.
42. Olsson PA, Francis R, Read DJ, Soderstrom B (1998) Growth of arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelium in calcareous dune sand and its interaction with other soil microorganisms as estimated by measurement of specific fatty acids. Plant Soil 201: 9-16.
43. Pearson JN, Jakobsen I (1993) Symbiotic exchange of carbon and phosphorus between cucumber and 3 arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytol 124: 481-488.
44. Pinheiro J, Bates D, DebRoy S, Sarkar D, The R Core Team (2009) nlme: linear and nonlinear mixed effects models (R package version 3. 1-96). R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
45. Quincke JA, Wortmann CS, Mamo M, Franti T, Drijber RA (2007) Occasional tillage of no-till systems: carbon dioxide flux and changes in total and labile soil organic carbon. Agron J 99: 1158-1168.
46. Rillig MC, Wright SF, Nichols KA, Schmidt WF, Torn MS (2001) Large contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil carbon pools in tropical forest soils. Plant Soil 233: 167-177.
47. Rillig MC, Ramsey PW, Morris S, Paul EA (2003) Glomalin, an arbuscular-mycorrhizal fungal soil protein, responds to land-use change. Plant Soil 253: 293-299.
48. Robinson D, Fitter A (1999) The magnitude and control of carbon transfer between plants linked by a common mycorrhizal network. J Exp Bot 50: 9-13.
49. Rosendahl S, Stukenbrock EH (2004) Community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in undisturbed vegetation revealed by analyses of LSU rDNA sequences. Mol Ecol 13: 3179-3186.
50. Schnoor TK, Lekberg Y, Rosendahl S, Olsson PA (2011) Mechanical soil disturbance as a determinant of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in semi-natural grasslands. Mycorrhiza 21: 211-220. doi: 10. 1007/s00572-010-0325-3.
51. Smith SE, Smith FA, Jakobsen I (2003) Mycorrhizal fungi can dominate phosphate supply to plants irrespective of growth responses. Plant Physiol 133: 16-20.
52. Steinberg PD, Rillig MC (2003) Differential decomposition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae and glomalin. Soil Biol Biochem 35: 191-195.
53. Stukenbrock EH, Rosendahl S (2005) Distribution of dominant arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi among five plant species in undisturbed vegetation of a coastal grassland. Mycorrhiza 15: 497-503.
54. R Core Team (2010) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
55. Tyler G, Olsson PA (1993) The calcifuge behaviour of Viscaria vulgaris. J Veg Sci 4: 29-36.
56. van Aarle IM, Olsson PA (2003) Fungal lipid accumulation and development of mycelial structures by two arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Appl Environ Microbiol 69: 6762-6767.
57. van der Heijden MGA, Klironomos JN, Ursic M, Moutoglis P, Streitwolf-Engel R, Boller T, Wiemken A, Sanders IR (1998) Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variability and productivity. Nature 396: 69-72.
58. van Groenigen K-J, Bloem J, Baath E, Boeckx P, Rousk J, Bode S, Forristal D, Jones MB (2010) Abundance, production and stabilization of microbial biomass under conventional and reduced tillage. Soil Biol Biochem 42: 48-55.
59. Voets L, Goubau I, Olsson PA, Merckx R, Declerck S (2008) Absence of carbon transfer between Medicago truncatula plants linked by a mycorrhizal network, demonstrated in an experimental microcosm. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 65: 350-360.
60. Wang B, Qiu Y-L (2006) Phylogenetic distribution and evolution of mycorrhizas in land plants. Mycorrhiza 16: 299-363.
61. Wilson GWT, Hartnett DC, Rice CW (2006) Mycorrhizal-mediated phosphorus transfer between tallgrass prairie plants Sorghastrum nutans and Artemisia ludoviciana. Funct Ecol 20: 427-435.
62. Wortmann CS, Quincke JA, Drijber RA, Mamo M, Franti T (2008) Soil microbial community change and recovery after one-time tillage of continuous no-till. Agron J 100: 1681-1686.