Glucose decomposition and its incorporation into soil microbial biomass depending on land use in Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystems

European Journal of Soil Biology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2014, Pages 74-82

  Mganga, K Z ^a,b   Kuzyakov, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b SOUTH EASTERN KENYA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Global change; Land use systems; Microbial biomass carbon; Mt. Kilimanjaro; Substrate utilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897409260     PISSN: 11645563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2014.02.015     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Albrecht A., Kandji S.T. Carbon sequestration in tropical agroforestry systems. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2003, 99:15-27.
2. Alguacil M., Lumini E., Roldan A., Salinas-Garcia J., Bonfante P., Biaciotto V. The impact of tillage practices on arbuscular mycorrhizal. Ecol. Appl. 2008, 18(2):527-536.
3. 14C-labeled maize residues and on their stabilization in soil aggregates. Eur. J. Soil. Sci. 2013, 64:488-499.
4. Balesdent J., Chenu C., Balabane M. Relationship of soil organic matter dynamics to physical protection and tillage. Soil Tillage Res. 2000, 53:215-230.
5. Balota E.L., Filho A.C., Andrade D.S., Dick R.P. Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on microbial biomass and C and N mineralization in a Brazilian Oxisol. Soil Tillage Res. 2004, 77:137-145.
6. Batjes N.H., Reference I.S., Isric I.C., Box P.O., Wageningen A.J. Total carbon and nitrogen in the soils of the world. Eur. J. Soil. Sci. 1996, 47:151-163.
7. Blagodatskaya E.V., Blagodatsky S.A., Anderson T.H., Kuzyakov Y. Contrasting effects of glucose, living roots and maize straw on microbial growth kinetics and substrate availability in soil. Eur. J. Soil. Sci. 2009, 60(2):186-197.
8. Blair N., Faulkner R.D., Till A.R., Poulton P.R. Long-term management impacts on soil C, N and physical fertility. Soil Tillage Res. 2006, 91(1-2):30-38.
9. Chander K., Brookes P. Microbial biomass dynamics during the decomposition of glucose and maize in metal-contaminated and non-contaminated soils. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1991, 23(10):917-925.
10. Chen H., Hou R., Gong Y., Li H., Kuzyakov Y. Effects of 11 years of conservation tillage on soil organic matter fractions in wheat monoculture in Loess Plateau of China. Soil Tillage Res. 2009, 106:85-94.
11. Chantigny M.H. Dissolved and water-extractable organic matter in soils: a review on the influence of land use and management practices. Geoderma 2003, 113(3-4):357-380.
12. Derrien D., Marol C., Balabane M., Balesdent J. The turnover of carbohydrate carbon in a cultivated soil estimated by 13C natural abundances. Eur. J. Soil. Sci. 2006, 57(4):547-557.
13. 13C pulse-labelling and GC/C/IRMS. Plant Soil 2004, 267:243-253.
14. Domanski G., Kuzyakov Y., Siniakina S.V., Stahr K. Carbon flows in the rhizosphere of Lolium perenne. J.Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 2001, 164:381-387.
15. 2 depends on soil aggregate size. Global Chang. Biol. 2009, 15:1603-1614.
16. Fan J., He Z., Ma L.Q., Stoffella P.J. Accumulation and availability of copper in citrus grove soils as affected by fungicide application. J.Soil. Sediment. 2011, 11(4):639-648.
17. Fernandes E.C.M., Motavalli P.P., Castilla C., Mukurumbira L. Management control of soil organic matter dynamics in tropical land-use systems. Geoderma 1997, 79:49-67.
18. Fernandes E.C.M., Oktingati A., Maghembe J. The Chagga homegardens: a multistoried agroforestry cropping system on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Northern Tanzania). Agrofor. Syst. 1984, 2:73-86.
19. Filser J., Fromm H., Nagel R., Winter K. Effects of previous intensive agricultural management on microorganisms and the biodiversity of soil fauna. Plant Soil 1995, 170:123-129.
20. Fischer H., Ingwersen J., Kuzyakov Y. Microbial uptake of low-molecular-weight organic substances out-competes sorption in soil. Eur. J. Soil. Sci. 2010, 61(4):504-513.
21. Grace J., Jose J.S., Meir P., Miranda H.S., Montes R.A. Productivity and carbon fluxes of tropical savannas. J.Biogeogr. 2006, 33(3):387-400.
22. Guo L., Gifford R. Soil carbon stocks and land use change: a meta analysis. Glob. Chang. Biol. 2002, 8:345-360.
23. Hemp A. Vegetation of Kilimanjaro: hidden endemics and missing bamboo. Afr. J. Ecol. 2006, 44:305-328.
24. Hemp A. The banana forests of Kilimanjaro: biodiversity and conservation of the Chagga homegardens. Biodivers. Conserv. 2006, 15(4):1193-1217.
25. Hemp C., Hemp A. Saltatoria coenoses of high-altitude grasslands on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (Orthoptera: Saltatoria ). Ecotropica 2003, 9:71-97.
26. Heneghan L., Coleman D.C., Zou X., Crossley D.A., Haines D.L. Soil microarthropod contributions to decomposition dynamics: tropical-temperate comparisons of a single substrate. Ecology 1999, 80(6):1873-1882.
27. Hernández-Hernández R.M., López-Hernández D. Microbial biomass, mineral nitrogen and carbon content in savanna soil aggregates under conventional and no-tillage. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2002, 34:1563-1570.
28. Hu S., Coleman D.C., Carroll C.R., Hendrix P.F., Beare M.H. Labile soil carbon pools in subtropical forest and agricultural ecosystems as influenced by management practices and vegetation types. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 1997, 65:69-78.
29. Joergensen R. The fumigation-extraction method to estimate soil microbial biomass: calibration of the kEC value. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1996, 28(1):25-31.
30. Kalbitz K., Kaiser K. Contribution of dissolved organic matter to carbon storage in forest mineral soils. J.Plant Nutr. Soil Sci. 2008, 171(1):52-60.
31. 15N in intensive ridge cultivation with plastic mulching under a monsoon climate. Nutr. Cycl. Agroecosyst 2013, 95:57-72.
32. Kettering J., Park J.H., Lindner S., Lee B., Tenhunen J., Kuzyakov Y. Nfluxes in an agricultural catchment under monsoon climate: a budget approach at different scales. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2012, 161:101-111.
33. Kijazi M.H., Kant S. Forest stakeholders' value preferences in Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. For. Policy Econ. 2010, 12(5):357-369.
34. Kuzyakov Y.V. Tracer studies of carbon translocation by plants from the atmosphere into the soil (a review). Eurasian Soil. Sci. 2001, 34:28-42.
35. Kuzyakov Y., Xu X. Competition between roots and microorganisms for N: mechanisms and ecological relevance. New. Phytol. 2013, 198:656-669.
36. 2 fluxes?. Biogeosciences 2011, 8(6):1523-1537.
37. 14C labeling. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2009, 41(2):210-219.
38. 2 efflux from soil planted with Zea mays. Eur. J. Soil. Biol. 2008, 44(5-6):501-508.
39. Lal R. Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security. Science 2004, 304:1623-1627.
40. Lemenih M., Itanna F. Soil carbon stocks and turnovers in various vegetation types and arable lands along an elevation gradient in southern Ethiopia. Geoderma 2004, 123(1-2):177-188.
41. Lewis S.L., Lopez-Gonzalez G., Sonké B., Affum-Baffoe K., Baker T.R., Ojo L.O., Phillips O.L., et al. Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests. Nature 2009, 457(7232):1003-1006.
42. Lorenz K., Lal R. The depth distribution of soil organic carbon in relation to land use and management and the potential of carbon sequestration in subsoil horizons. Adv. Agron. 2005, 88:35-66.
43. 14C labelled plant residues and their incorporation into soil aggregates. Soil Tillage Res. 2010, 109(2):94-102.
44. Matson P.A., Parton W., Power A., Swift M. Agricultural intensification and ecosystem properties. Science 1997, 277(5325):504-509.
45. Merrington G., Rogers S., van Zwieten L. The potential impact of long-term copper fungicide usage on soil microbial biomass activity in an avocado orchard. Aust. J. Soil. Res. 2002, 40:37-41.
46. Mutuo P.K., Cadisch G., Albrecht A., Palm C.A., Verchot L. Potential of agroforestry for carbon sequestration and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from soils in the tropics. Nutr. Cycl. Agroecosyst 2005, 71(1):43-54.
47. Murty D., Kirschbaum M., McMurtrie R., McGilvray H. Does conversion of forest to agricultural land change soil carbon and nitrogen? a review of the literature. Glob. Chang. Biol. 2002, 8:105-123.
48. Nyambo B.T., Masaba D.M., Hakiza G.J. Integrated pest management of coffee for small-scale farmers in East Africa: needs and limitations. Integ. Pest Mgt. Rev. 1996, 1(3):125-132.
49. Pabst H., Kühnel A., Kuzyakov Y. Effect of land-use and elevation on microbial biomass and water extractable carbon in soils of Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystems. Appl. Soil. Ecol. 2013, 67:10-19.
50. 14C labeling study. Plant Soil 2013, 364(1-2):273-285.
51. Post W.M., Kwon K.C. Soil carbon sequestration and land-use change: processes and potential. Glob. Chang. Biol. 2000, 6(3):317-327.
52. Salinas-García J.R., Velázquez-Garcia J.de J., Gallardo-Valdez M., Díaz-Mederos P., Caballero-Hernández F., Tapia-Vargas L., Rosales-Robles E. Tillage effects on microbial biomass and nutrient distribution in soils under rain-fed corn production in central-western Mexico. Soil Tillage Res. 2002, 66:143-152.
53. Sanaullah M., Blagodatskaya E., Chabbi A., Rumpel C., Kuzyakov Y. Drought effects on microbial biomass and enzyme activities in the rhizosphere of grasses depending on plant community composition. Appl. Soil. Ecol. 2011, 48:38-44.
54. 14C pulse labelling. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2012, 55:132-139.
55. Schimel D.S. Terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle. Glob. Chang. Biol. 1995, 1:77-91.
56. Schmidt-Walter P., Lamersdorf N.P. Biomass production with willow and poplar short rotation coppices on sensitive areas-the impact on nitrate leaching and groundwater recharge in a drinking water catchment near Hanover, Germany. Bioenergy Res. 2012, 5:546-562.
57. Schrumpf M., Zech W., Lehmann J., Lyaruu H.V.C. TOC, TON, TOS and TOP in rainfall, throughfall, litter percolate and soil solution of a montane rainforest succession at Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Biogeochemistry 2006, 78:361-387.
58. Singh J.S., Singh D.P., Kashya A.K. Microbial biomass C, N and P in disturbed dry tropical forest soils, India. Pedosphere 2010, 20(6):780-788.
59. Soini E. Land use change patterns and livelihood dynamics on the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Agric. Syst. 2005, 85:306-323.
60. Unruh J., Houghton R., Lefebvre P. Carbon storage in agroforestry: an estimate for sub-Saharan Africa. Clim. Res. 1993, 3:39-52.
61. Usman A.R.A., Kuzyakov Y., Stahr K. Dynamics of organic C mineralization and the mobile fraction of heavy metals in a calcareous soil incubated with organic wastes. Water Air Soil Pollut. 2004, 310:401-418.
62. 2 emissions from forest loss. Nat. Geosci. 2009, 2:737-738.
63. Vance E., Brookes P., Jenkinson D. An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1987, 19(6):703-707.
64. Veldkamp E. Organic carbon turnover in three tropical soils under pasture after deforestation. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 1994, 58(1):175.
65. Wang Y., Amundson R., Trumbore S. The impact of land use change on C turnover in soils. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 1999, 13(1):47-57.
66. Wichern F., Richter C., Joergensen R. Soil fertility breakdown in a subtropical South African vertisol site used as a home garden. Biol. Fertil. Soils 2003, 37:288-294.
67. Zech M. Evidence for Late Pleistocene climate changes from buried soils on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 2006, 242(3-4):303-312.
68. Zech W., Senesi N., Guggenberger G., Kaiser K., Lehmann J., Miano T.M., Miltner A., Schroth G. Factors controlling humification and mineralization of soil organic matter in the tropics. Geoderma 1997, 79:117-161.
69. Zhang B., He H., Ding X., Zhang X., Zhang X., Yang X., Filley T.R. Soil microbial community dynamics over a maize (Zea mays L.) growing season under conventional- and no-tillage practices in a rainfed agroecosystem. Soil Tillage Res. 2012, 124:153-160.