Soil microbial diversity-function relationships are changed by human activity at a landscape scale

IF 3.9 2区农林科学 Q1 AGRONOMY

Plant and Soil Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI:10.1007/s11104-024-07174-9

Shenglei Hao, Zewen Hei, Jiayang Ma, Qi Shao, Tingyao Cai, Hang-Wei Hu, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Yongliang Chen

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Abstract

Background and Aims

Soil microorganisms are crucial contributors to the regulation of diverse ecosystem functions in natural ecosystems. However, the influence of land use types on the relationships between soil microbial diversity and soil multifunctionality (SMF) has been scarcely evaluated at a landscape level.

Methods

A high-resolution field survey was undertaken with 228 sites (2 × 2 km² grid each) to investigate the influence of four land uses on the relationship between soil microbial diversity (bacteria, fungi and protists) and SMF in Pinggu District, China.

Results

Soil microbial diversity index and multifunctionality were the highest in orchards and natural forests compared to plantations and cropland. Also, while soil microbial diversity index and SMF were positively correlated across all land uses and in natural forests. However, this relationship was decoupled within cropland, orchards and plantations. Increases in module richness within ecological networks were also important predictors of SMF, especially in cropland and orchards.

Conclusion

This study provides new insights on the impacts of land use types in changing the fundamental relationship between soil microbial diversity and function.

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Plant and Soil 农林科学-农艺学

CiteScore

8.20

自引率

8.20%

发文量

543

审稿时长

2.5 months

期刊介绍： Plant and Soil publishes original papers and review articles exploring the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, and that enhance our mechanistic understanding of plant-soil interactions. We focus on the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, and seek those manuscripts with a strong mechanistic component which develop and test hypotheses aimed at understanding underlying mechanisms of plant-soil interactions. Manuscripts can include both fundamental and applied aspects of mineral nutrition, plant water relations, symbiotic and pathogenic plant-microbe interactions, root anatomy and morphology, soil biology, ecology, agrochemistry and agrophysics, as long as they are hypothesis-driven and enhance our mechanistic understanding. Articles including a major molecular or modelling component also fall within the scope of the journal. All contributions appear in the English language, with consistent spelling, using either American or British English.