scholarly journals Long-term and realistic global change manipulations had low impact on diversity of soil biota in temperate heathland

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Holmstrup ◽  
Christian Damgaard ◽  
Inger K. Schmidt ◽  
Marie F. Arndal ◽  
Claus Beier ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 406 ◽  
pp. 72-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Lechuga ◽  
Vinicio Carraro ◽  
Benjamín Viñegla ◽  
José Antonio Carreira ◽  
Juan Carlos Linares

Author(s):  
Domenico D'Alelio ◽  
Salvatore Rampone ◽  
Luigi Maria Cusano ◽  
Nadia Sanseverino ◽  
Luca Russo ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1327-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Ashworth ◽  
F. L. Allen ◽  
J. M. DeBruyn ◽  
P. R. Owens ◽  
C. Sams

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11204
Author(s):  
Maria Viketoft ◽  
Laura G.A. Riggi ◽  
Riccardo Bommarco ◽  
Sara Hallin ◽  
Astrid R. Taylor

Addition of organic amendments is a commonly used practice to offset potential loss of soil organic matter from agricultural soils. The aim of the present study was to examine how long-term addition of organic matter affects the abundance of different soil biota across trophic levels and the role that the quality of the organic amendments plays. Here we used a 17-year-old fertilization experiment to investigate soil biota responses to four different organic fertilizers, compared with two mineral nitrogen fertilizers and no fertilization, where the organic fertilizers had similar carbon content but varied in their carbon to nitrogen ratios. We collected soil samples and measured a wide range of organisms belonging to different functional groups and trophic levels of the soil food web. Long-term addition of organic and mineral fertilizers had beneficial effects on the abundances of most soil organisms compared with unfertilized soil, but the responses differed between soil biota. The organic fertilizers generally enhanced bacteria and earthworms. Fungi and nematodes responded positively to certain mineral and organic fertilizers, indicating that multiple factors influenced by the fertilization may affect these heterogeneous groups. Springtails and mites were less affected by fertilization than the other groups, as they were present at relatively high abundances even in the unfertilized treatment. However, soil pH had a great influence on springtail abundance. In summary, the specific fertilizer was more important in determining the numerical and compositional responses of soil biota than whether it was mineral or organic. Overall, biennial organic amendments emerge as insufficient, by themselves, to promote soil organisms in the long run, and would need to be added annually or combined with other practices affecting soil quality, such as no or reduced tillage and other crop rotations, to have a beneficial effect.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuula Larmola ◽  
Liisa Maanavilja ◽  
Heikki Kiheri ◽  
Mats Nilsson ◽  
Matthias Peichl

<p>In order to assess peatland carbon sink potential under multiple global change perturbations, we examined the individual and combined effects of long-term warming and enhanced nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) deposition on ecosystem CO<sub>2 </sub>exchange at one of the longest-running experiments on peatlands, Degerö Stormyr poor fen, Sweden. The site has been treated with NH<sub>4</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> (15 times ambient annual wet deposition), Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> (6 times ambient annual wet deposition) and elevated temperature (air +3.6 C) for 23 years. Gross photosynthesis, ecosystem respiration and net CO<sub>2</sub> exchange were measured weekly during June-August using chambers. After 23 years, two of the experimental perturbations: N addition and warming individually reduced net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake potential down to 0.3-0.4 fold compared to the control mainly due to lower gross photosynthesis. Under S only treatment ecosystem CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes were largely unaltered. In contrast, the combination of S and N deposition and warming led to a more pronounced effect and close to zero net CO<sub>2</sub> uptake potential or net C source. Our study emphasizes the value of the long-term multifactor experiments in examining the ecosystem responses: simultaneous perturbations can have nonadditive interactions that cannot be predicted based on individual responses and thus, must be studied in combination when evaluating feedback mechanisms to ecosystem C sink potential under global change.</p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 1451-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linlin Chen ◽  
Konstantin A. Lutaenko ◽  
Xiaojing Li ◽  
Xinzheng Li ◽  
Zhengquan Zhou ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip G. Hahn ◽  
Lorinda Bullington ◽  
Beau Larkin ◽  
Kelly LaFlamme ◽  
John L. Maron ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 418 ◽  
pp. 23-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Lechuga ◽  
Vinicio Carraro ◽  
Benjamín Viñegla ◽  
José Antonio Carreira ◽  
Juan Carlos Linares

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 843-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
YIQI LUO ◽  
JERRY MELILLO ◽  
SHULI NIU ◽  
CLAUS BEIER ◽  
JAMES S. CLARK ◽  
...  

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