Distribution of Soil Extracellular Enzymatic, Microbial, and Biological Functions in the C and N-Cycle Pathways Along a Forest Altitudinal Gradient
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61388971%3A_____%2F21%3A00550982" target="_blank" >RIV/61388971:_____/21:00550982 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.660603/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.660603/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.660603" target="_blank" >10.3389/fmicb.2021.660603</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Distribution of Soil Extracellular Enzymatic, Microbial, and Biological Functions in the C and N-Cycle Pathways Along a Forest Altitudinal Gradient
Original language description
The diverse chemical, biological, and microbial properties of litter and organic matter (OM) in forest soil along an altitudinal gradient are potentially important for nutrient cycling. In the present study, we sought to evaluate soil chemical, biological, microbial, and enzymatic characteristics at four altitude levels (0, 500, 1,000, and 1,500 m) in northern Iran to characterize nutrient cycling in forest soils. The results showed that carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) turnover changed with altitude along with microbial properties and enzyme activity. At the lowest altitude with mixed forest and no beech trees, the higher content of N in litter and soil, higher pH and microbial biomass nitrogen (MBN), and the greater activities of aminopeptidases affected soil N cycling. At elevations above 1,000 m, where beech is the dominant tree species, the higher activities of cellobiohydrolase, arylsulfatase, beta-xylosidase, beta-galactosidase, endoglucanase, endoxylanase, and manganese peroxidase (MnP) coincided with higher basal respiration (BR), substrate-induced respiration (SIR), and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and thus favored conditions for microbial entropy and C turnover. The low N content and high C/N ratio at 500-m altitude were associated with the lowest microbial and enzyme activities. Our results support the view that the plain forest with mixed trees (without beech) had higher litter quality and soil fertility, while forest dominated by beech trees had the potential to store higher C and can potentially better mitigate global warming.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10606 - Microbiology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-26191S" target="_blank" >GA18-26191S: Fungal communities in the environment: exploring fungal ecology and biogeography using the combination of novel molecular markers and metaanalyses</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Microbiology
ISSN
1664-302X
e-ISSN
1664-302X
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
SEP 3 2021
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
660603
UT code for WoS article
000724258400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85115240804