Responses of microbial activity to carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus additions in forest mineral soils differing in organic carbon content

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/21:10437200

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00374-021-01545-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00374-021-01545-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00374-021-01545-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00374-021-01545-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Responses of microbial activity to carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus additions in forest mineral soils differing in organic carbon content

Original language description

Labile C input to the soil can cause the priming effect (PE) that in turn changes the soil organic C (SOC) content. However, little information is available to predict the magnitude of the PE in different soils, especially under concurrent changes in nutrient inputs. We took advantage of a natural gradient in labile C input in the surroundings of wood ant nests in a temperate coniferous forest which arises through the long-term effects of wood ant foraging on the inputs of honeydew to soil. We collected soils from the surface mineral horizon (high-SOC content) (A horizon) and the subsoil mineral horizon (low-SOC content) (B horizon) at 4 m (low labile C input and higher SOC content) and 70 m (high labile C input and lower SOC content) from four nests. In a 6-month laboratory microcosm experiment, we monitored microbial activity and PE as affected by no nutrient addition (control) or fortnightly additions of labile C alone or in combination with N and/or P (C, CN, CP, CNP). Microbial activity and PE after C addition increased more at 70 m than at 4 m in the B horizon, that is, were higher with a lower SOC content. However, microbial activity and PE in the B horizon were not affected by additions of N and/or P with C. In the A horizon, microbial activity and PE were lower after combined CN addition but increased by combined CP addition relative to C addition alone. In conclusion, labile C inputs had a larger effect on decomposition and PE in low-SOC than high-SOC soils, whereas N and P inputs had greater effects in high-SOC soils than in low-SOC soils. This suggests that low-SOC soils such as those subjected to a high long-term labile C input or those from the subsoil mineral horizon might be more susceptible to increase microbial activity in relation to changes in labile C inputs but less susceptible in relation to changes in N and P inputs relative to high-SOC soils.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biology and Fertility of Soils

ISSN

0178-2762

e-ISSN

1432-0789

Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

513-521

UT code for WoS article

000617820100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85100963961