Influence of 20-year organic and inorganic fertilization on organic carbon accumulation and microbial community structure of aggregates in an intensively cultivated sandy loam soil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Huanjun ^a   Ding, Weixin ^a   He, Xinhua ^b,c   Yu, Hongyan ^a   Fan, Jianling ^a   Liu, Deyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b State Forests of New South Wales   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; ORGANIC CARBON; CARBON; FERTILIZER; SOIL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AERATION; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTIONATION; METHANOLYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; POROSITY; SANDY LOAM; SOIL AGGREGATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILIZATION; SOIL PROPERTY; TILLAGE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL; TIME;

CARBON; FERTILIZERS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899866903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092733     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Anders MM, Beck PA, Watkins BK, Gunter SA, Lusby KS, et al. (2010) Soil aggregates and their associated carbon and nitrogen content in Winter Annual Pastures. Soil Sci Soc Am J 74: 1339-1347.
2. Helgason BL, Walley FL, Germida JJ (2010) No-till soil management increases microbial biomass and alters community profiles in soil aggregates. Appl Soil Ecol 46: 390-397.
3. Bossuyt H, Six J, Hendrix P (2002) Aggregate-protected carbon in no-tillage and conservation tillage agroecosystems using carbon-14 labeled plant residue. Soil Sci Soc Am J 66: 1965-1973. (Pubitemid 35352902)
4. Wright AL, Hons JM (2004) Soil aggregation and carbon and nitrogen storage under soybean cropping sequences. Soil Sci Soc Am J 68: 507-513. (Pubitemid 38308077)
5. Six J, Paustian K, Elliott ET, Combrink C (2000) Soil structure and organic matter. I. Distribution of aggregate-size classes and aggregate-associated carbon. Soil Sci Soc Am J 64: 681-689. (Pubitemid 30343399)
6. Bach EM, Baer SG, Meyer CK, Six J (2010) Soil texture affects soil microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration. Soil Biol Biochem 42: 2182-2191.
7. Verchot LV, Dutaur L, Shepherd KD, Albrecht A (2011) Organic matter stabilization in soil aggregates: Understanding the biogeochemical mechanisms that determine the fate of carbon inputs in soils. Geoderma 161: 82-193.
8. Hassink J (1997) The capacity of soils to preserve organic C and N by their association with clay and silt particles. Plant Soil 191: 77-87.
9. Six J, Elliott ET, Paustian K (2000) Soil macroaggregate turnover and microaggregate formation: a mechanism for C sequestration under no-tillage agriculture. Soil Biol Biochem 32: 2099-2103. (Pubitemid 32035603)
10. Mikha MM, Rice CW (2004) Tillage and manure effects on soil aggregate associated carbon and nitrogen. Soil Sci Soc Am J 68: 809-816. (Pubitemid 38653600)
11. Aoyama M, Angers DA, N'Dayegamiye A (1999) Particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in water-stable aggregates as affected by mineral fertilizer and manure application. Can J Soil Sci 79: 295-302. (Pubitemid 29363108)
12. Manna MC, Swarup A, Wanjari RH, Singh YV, Ghosh PK, et al. (2006) Soil organic matter in a west Bengal inceptisol after 30 years of multiple cropping and fertilization. Soil Sci Soc Am J 70: 121-129. (Pubitemid 43199256)
13. Su YZ, Wang F, Suo DR, Zhang ZH, Du MW (2006) Long-term effect of fertilizer and manure application on soil-carbon sequestration and soil fertility under the wheat-wheat-maize cropping system in northwest China. Nutr Cycl Agroecosys 75: 285-295. (Pubitemid 44259646)
14. Kong AYY, Six J, Bryant DC, Denison RF, van Kessel C (2005) The relationship between carbon input, aggregation, and soil organic carbon stabilization in sustainable cropping systems. Soil Sci Soc Am J 69: 1078-1085. (Pubitemid 41033662)
15. Sarkar S, Singh SR, Singh RP (2003) The effect of organic and inorganic fertilizers on soil physical condition and the productivity of a rice-lentil cropping sequence in India. J Agric Sci 140: 419-425. (Pubitemid 37298625)
16. Bhattacharyya R, Prakash V, Kundu S, Srivastva AK, Gupta HS, et al. (2009) Long-term effects of fertilization on carbon and nitrogen sequestration and aggregate associated carbon and nitrogen in the Indian sub-Himalayas. Nutr Cycl Agroecosys 86:1-16.
17. Böhme L, Langer U, Böhme F (2005) Microbial biomass, enzyme activities and microbial community structure in two European long-term field experiments. Agri Ecosyst Environ 109: 141-152.
18. Billings SA, Ziegler SE (2008) Altered patterns of soil carbon substrate usage and heterotrophic respiration in a pine forest with elevated CO2 and N fertilization. Global Change Biol 14: 1025-1036. (Pubitemid 351619124)
19. Kindler R, Miltner A, Thullner M, Richnow HH, Kästner M (2009) Fate of bacterial biomass derived fatty acids in soil and their contribution to soil organic matter. Org Geochem 40: 29-37.
20. Sessitsch A, Weilharter A, Gerzabek MH, Kirchmann H, Kandeler E (2001) Microbial population structures in soil particle size fractions of a long-term fertilizer field experiment. Appl Environ Microbiol 67: 4215-4224. (Pubitemid 33641719)
21. Jastrow JD, Miller RM, Lussenhop J (1998) Contributions of interacting biological mechanisms to soil aggregate stabilization in restored prairie. Soil Biol Biochem 30: 905-916. (Pubitemid 28286324)
22. Jiang XJ, Wright AL, Wang X, Liang F (2011) Tillage-induced changes in fungal and bacterial biomass associated with soil aggregates: A long-term field study in a subtropical rice soil in China. Appl Soil Ecol 48: 168-173.
23. Alagöz Z, Yilmaz E (2009) Effects of different sources of organic matter on soil aggregate formation and stability: A laboratory study on a Lithic Rhodoxeralf from Turkey. Soil Till Res 103: 419-424.
24. th edn. USDA NRCS, Washington DC, USA 106-111.
25. Carter MR (1993) Soil samples and methods of analysis. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton., 190-191.
26. van Genuchten MT (1980) A closed-form equation forpredicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 44: 892-898.
27. Kutílek M, Nielsen DR (1994) Soil Hydrology. Catena Verlag, Cremlingen Destedt.
28. Davis GB, Power TR, Briegel D, Patterson BM (1998) BTEX vapour biodegradation rates in the vadose zone: initial estimates. Groundwater Quality: Remediation and Protection 250: 300-303.
29. Elliot ET (1986) Aggregate structure and carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in native and cultivated soils. Soil Sci Soc Am J 50: 518-524.
30. Brant JB, Sulzman EW, Myrold DD (2006) Microbial community utilization of added carbon substrates in response to long-term carbon input manipulation. Soil Biol Biochem 38: 2219-2232. (Pubitemid 44148681)
31. Bossio DA, Scow KM, Gunapala N, Graham KJ (1998) Determinants of soil microbial communities: effects of agricultural management, season and soil type on phospholipid fatty acid profiles. Microb Ecol 36: 1-12. (Pubitemid 28301347)
32. Frostegard A, Bååth E (1996) The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis to estimate bacterial and fungal biomass in soil. Biol Fertil Soils 22: 59-65.
33. 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.
34. Sundh I, Nilsson M, Borga P (1997) Variation in microbial community structure in two boreal peatlands as determined by analysis of phospholipid fatty acid profiles. Appl Environ Microbiol 63: 1476-1482.
35. Spring S, Schulze R, Overmann J, Schleifer KH (2000) Identification and characterization of ecologically significant prokaryotes in the sediment of freshwater lakes: molecular and cultivation studies. FEMS Microbiol Rev 24: 573-590.
36. Bossio DA, Fleck JA, Scow KM, Fujii R (2006) Alteration of soil microbial communities and water quality in restored wetlands. Soil Biol Biochem 38: 1223-1233.
37. Rajendran N, Matsuda O, Imamura N, Urushigawa Y (1992) Variation in microbial biomass and community structure in sediments of Eutrophic Bays as determined by phospholipid ester-linked fatty acids. Appl Environ Microbiol 58: 562-571. (Pubitemid 23399979)
38. Ladd JN, VanGestel M, Monrozier LJ, Amato M (1996) Distribution of organic C-14 and N-15 in particle-size fractions of soils incubated with C-14, N-15-labelled glucose/NH4, and legume and wheat straw residues. Soil Biol Biochem 28: 893-905. (Pubitemid 27088490)
39. Petersen SO, Debosz K, Schjønning P, Christensen BT, Susanne E (1997) Phospholipid fatty acid profiles and C availability in wet-stable macro-aggregates from conventionally and organically farmed soils. Geoderma 78: 181-196. (Pubitemid 27377965)
40. Kandeler E, Tscherko D, Bruce KD, Stemmer M, Hobbs PJ, et al. (2000) Structure and function of the soil microbial community in microhabitats of a heavy metal polluted soil. Biol Fertil Soils 32: 390-400. (Pubitemid 32145217)
41. Chenu C, Hassink J, Bloem J (2001) Short-term changes in the spatial distribution of microorganisms in soil aggregates as affected by glucose addition. Biol Fertil Soils 34: 349-356. (Pubitemid 33066291)
42. Beguin P, Aubert J (2006) The biological degradation of cellulose. FEMS Microbiol Rev 13: 25-58.
43. Jurgens K, Pernthaler J, Schalla S, Amann R (1999) Morphological and compositional changes in a planktonic bacterial community in response to enhanced protozoan grazing. Appl Environ Microbiol 65: 1241-1250.
44. Kölbl A, Kögel-Knabner I (2004) Content and composition of free and occluded particulate organic matter in a differently textured arable Cambisol as revealed by solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy. J Plant Nutr Soil Sci 167: 45-53.
45. Singh S, Singh JS (1995) Microbial biomass associated with water-stable aggregates in forest, savanna and cropland soils of a seasonally dry tropical region, India. Soil Biol Biochem 27: 1027-1033. (Pubitemid 26437501)
46. 2 emission in an intensively cultivated loam as affected by long-term application of organic manure and nitrogen fertilizer. Soil Biol Biochem 39: 669-679.
47. Yu HY, Ding WX, Luo JF, Geng RL, Ghanni A, et al. (2012) Effects of long-term compost and fertilizer application on stability of aggregates-associated organic carbon in intensively cultivated sandy loam soil. Biol Fertil Soils 48: 325-336.
48. Killham K, Amato M, Ladd J (1993) Effect of substrate location in soil and soil porewater regime on carbon turnover. Soil Biol Biochem 25: 57-62. (Pubitemid 23381504)
49. Dungait JAJ, Hopkins DW, Gregory AS, Whitmore AP (2012) Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance. Global Change Biol 18: 1781-1796.
50. Strong DT, Wever HD, Merckx R, Recous S (2004) Spatial location of carbon decomposition in the soil pore system. Eur J Soil Sci 55: 739-750. (Pubitemid 39554228)
51. Ruamps LM, Nunan N, Chenu C (2011) Microbial biogeography at the soil pore scale. Soil Biol Biochem 43: 280-286.
52. Blagodatsky S, Smith P (2012) Soil physics meets soil biology: Towards better mechanistic prediction of greenhouse gas emissions from soil. Soil Biol Biochem 47: 78-92.
53. Zhuang J, McCarthy JF, Perfect E, Mayer LM, Jastrow JD (2008) Soil water hysteresis in water-stable microaggregates as affected by organic matter. Soil Sci Soc Am J 72: 212-220. (Pubitemid 351972427)
54. Yu HY, Ding WX, Luo JF, Geng RL, Cai ZC (2012) Long-term application of organic manure and mineral fertilizers on aggregation and aggregate-associated carbon in a sandy loam soil. Soil Till Res 124: 170-177.
55. Zibilske LM, Bradford JM (2007) Oxygen effects on carbon, polyphenols and nitrogen mineralization potential in soil. Soil Sci Soc Am J 71: 133-139. (Pubitemid 46203493)
56. Ding HB, Sun MY (2005) Biochemical degradation of algal fatty acids in oxic and anoxic sediment-seawater interface systems: effects of structural association and relative roles of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Marine Chem 93: 1-19.
57. Wixon DL, Balser TC (2013) Toward conceptual clarity: PLFA in warmed soils. Soil Biol Biochem 57: 769-774.
58. Ponder F, Tadros M (2002) Phospholipid fatty acids in forest soil four years after organic matter removal and soil compaction. Appl Soil Ecol 19: 173-182.
59. Feng XJ, Simpson MJ (2009) Temperature and substrate controls on microbial phospholipid fatty acid composition during incubation of grassland soils contrasting in organic matter quality. Soil Biol Biochem 41: 804-812.
60. Simpson AJ, Song G, Smith E, Lam B, Novotny EH, et al. (2007) Unraveling the structural components of soil humin by use of solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Environ Sci Technol 41: 876-883. (Pubitemid 46208524)
61. Rappoldt C, Crawford JW (1999) The distribution of anoxic volume in a fractal model of soil. Geoderma 88: 329-347. (Pubitemid 29114438)
62. 13C abundance. Ph.D. thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany.
63. Said-Pullicino D, Kaiser K, Guggenberger G, Gigliotti G (2007) Changes in the chemical composition of water-extractable organic matter during composting: distribution between stable and labile organic matter pools. Chemosphere 66: 2166-2176. (Pubitemid 46073033)