scholarly journals Contrasting Effects of Local Environmental and Biogeographic Factors on the Composition and Structure of Bacterial Communities in Arid Monospecific Mangrove Soils

Author(s):  
T. Thomson ◽  
M. Fusi ◽  
M. F. Bennett-Smith ◽  
N. Prinz ◽  
E. Aylagas ◽  
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Mangrove ecosystems are increasingly being recognized for their potential to sequester atmospheric carbon, thereby mitigating the effects of anthropogenically driven greenhouse gas emissions. The bacterial community in the soils plays an important role in the breakdown and recycling of carbon and other nutrients.

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Chiao-Wen Lin ◽  
Yu-Chen Kao ◽  
Meng-Chun Chou ◽  
Hsin-Hsun Wu ◽  
Chuan-Wen Ho ◽  
...  

Mangroves are one of the blue carbon ecosystems. However, greenhouse gas emissions from mangrove soils may reduce the capacity of carbon storage in these systems. In this study, methane (CH4) fluxes and soil properties of the top 10 cm layer were determined in subtropical (Kandelia obovata) and tropical (Avicennia marina) mangrove ecosystems of Taiwan for a complete seasonal cycle. Our results demonstrate that CH4 emissions in mangroves cannot be neglected when constructing the carbon budgets and estimating the carbon storage capacity. CH4 fluxes were significantly higher in summer than in winter in the Avicennia mangroves. However, no seasonal variation in CH4 flux was observed in the Kandelia mangroves. CH4 fluxes were significantly higher in the mangrove soils of Avicennia than in the adjoining mudflats; this trend, however, was not necessarily recapitulated at Kandelia. The results of multiple regression analyses show that soil water and organic matter content were the main factors regulating the CH4 fluxes in the Kandelia mangroves. However, none of the soil parameters assessed show a significant influence on the CH4 fluxes in the Avicennia mangroves. Since pneumatophores can transport CH4 from anaerobic deep soils, this study suggests that the pneumatophores of Avicennia marina played a more important role than soil properties in affecting soil CH4 fluxes. Our results show that different mangrove tree species and related root structures may affect greenhouse gas emissions from the soils.


2016 ◽  
Vol 542 ◽  
pp. 685-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel N. Nóbrega ◽  
Tiago O. Ferreira ◽  
M. Siqueira Neto ◽  
Hermano M. Queiroz ◽  
Adriana G. Artur ◽  
...  

Polar Biology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1669-1683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karita Negandhi ◽  
Isabelle Laurion ◽  
Connie Lovejoy

2019 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 8-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermano Melo Queiroz ◽  
Adriana Guirado Artur ◽  
Carlos Alberto Kenji Taniguchi ◽  
Marcia Régia Souza da Silveira ◽  
Juliana Costa do Nascimento ◽  
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