Forest plantations reduce soil functioning in terrestrial ecosystems from South Africa

TitleForest plantations reduce soil functioning in terrestrial ecosystems from South Africa
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsAmoo A.E, Delgado-Baquerizo M., Babalola O.O
JournalPedobiologia
Volume89
Pagination7
Date PublishedNov
Type of ArticleArticle
ISBN Number0031-4056
Accession NumberWOS:000697357900002
KeywordsAgriculture, bacterial communities, biodiversity, carbon, catabolic diversity, CHINA, Community-level physiological profile, consequences, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, forests, functional diversity, Land use, loess plateau, microbial communities, MicroRespTM, multiple substrate-induced respiration, organic-matter, plantations, rhizosphere, sequestration
Abstract

The role of forest plantations in regulating soil ecosystem functions remains poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems from Africa. Here, we evaluated the importance of forest plantations in regulating soil microbial functional profiles, community-level physiological profiles (CLPPs) and activities of soil microbial communities compared with native forests in two contrasting seasons. We found that forest plantations consistently reduced the rates of multiple soil functions associated with soil nutrient and carbon (C) cycling and shifted the activity and functional profile of microbial communities in two contrasting seasons and two independent regions from South Africa. Our results suggest land use changes from natural forests to plantations to maintain a continuously growing human population will have important negative consequences for soil functions in forest ecosystems from Africa with implications for ecosystem functioning under changing environments.

Short TitlePedobiologiaPedobiologia
Alternate JournalPedobiologia
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Amoo, Adenike Eunice Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel Babalola, Olubukola Oluranti
North-West University; National Research Foundation of South AfricaNational Research Foundation - South Africa [UID123634, UID132595]; Ramon y Cajal grant from the Spanish Government [RYC2018-025483-I]
AEA would like to thank the North-West University for the post-doctoral bursary and research support. Work in OOB lab is based on support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grants Ref: UID123634, UID132595) . M.D-B. is supported by a Ramon y Cajal grant from the Spanish Government (agreement no. RYC2018-025483-I) . The authors are grateful to Philip Hongwane of South African Forestry Company Limited (SAFCOL) for help with sample collection.

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