Impact of forest management practices on soil bacterial diversity and consequences for soil processes

TitleImpact of forest management practices on soil bacterial diversity and consequences for soil processes
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsColombo F., Macdonald C.A, Jeffries T.C, Powell J.R, Singh B.K
JournalSoil Biology and Biochemistry
Volume94
Pagination200-210
Date PublishedMar
Type of ArticleArticle
ISBN Number0038-0717
Accession NumberWOS:000370094100021
Keywords16S RIBOSOMAL-RNA, Bacterial diversity, carbon-dioxide, ecosystem, Ecosystem functioning, enzyme-activities, forest management, GRASSLAND MICROCOSMS, land-use, microbial communities, MULTIVARIATE-ANALYSIS, nitrogen, subtropical australia
Abstract

Microbes are responsible for most soil processes but our knowledge of the relationship between belowground diversity and ecosystem functioning and how this is affected by land management is still incomplete. Here, we investigated the impact of forest management on bacterial communities and its consequences for soil functioning in a dryland forest ecosystem. We also evaluated the nature of the relationship between bacterial communities and soil functioning. We used high-throughput sequencing and quantitative PCR to determine the bacterial diversity and abundance and used a model-based approach to evaluate the contribution of microbial, and edaphic factors to functions involved in carbon and nutrient cycling. Our results demonstrate that irrigation had stronger effects than fertiliser application on bacterial communities and soil processes, highlighting the significance of water availability for bacterial communities and their activity in dryland ecosystems. We then used structural equation modelling to identify direct and indirect impacts on management practices and provide evidence that the response of some of these key soil processes to management practices were mediated by changes in bacterial diversity and abundance. Overall, the functioning of forest soils was predicted by bacterial diversity and abundance and a positive linear relationship between these variables and soil processes was observed, suggesting that declining microbial diversity could have direct consequences for functioning of soil ecosystems. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Short TitleSoil Biol. Biochem.Soil Biol. Biochem.
Alternate JournalSoil Biol. Biochem.
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Colombo, Federica Macdonald, Catriona A. Jeffries, Thomas C. Powell, Jeff R. Singh, Brajesh K.
Australian Research Council [DP13010484]; University of Western Sydney
This work was financially supported by Australian Research Council grant (DP13010484) and the University of Western Sydney. We gratefully acknowledge Catarina Martins for her assistance during field sampling.

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