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Friday 12 August 2016

Effect of different land use and land use change on ammonia oxidiser abundance and N2O emissions

Published Date
May 2016, Vol.96:169175doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.02.005

Title 

Effect of different land use and land use change on ammonia oxidiser abundance and N2O emissions

  • Author 
  • Chaoyu Li a,b
  • Hong J. Di a,,
  • Keith C. Cameron a
  • Andriy Podolyan a
  • Baocheng Zhu b,,
  • aCentre for Soil and Environmental Research, Lincoln University, Lincoln, 7647, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • bCollege of Life Sciences, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding, 071001, People's Republic of China
  • Land use type and change had a major impact on ammonia oxidising bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA).
  • AOB abundance was higher in dairy and sheep farm soils than in a pine plantation soil.
  • AOA was higher in the sheep farm soil than in the dairy and pine plantation soils.
  • Unexpectedly, AOA in the sheep farm soil grew in response to dairy cow urine application.
  • N2O emissions from the pine tree soil were the highest following urine application.

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a major expansion of dairy farming in New Zealand, largely as a result of land use change from forestry and sheep farming to dairy farming. Possible impacts of different land uses and land use change on ammonia oxidising bacteria (AOB) and archaea (AOA) and N2O emissions are not well understood. A field study was carried out to determine the effects on AOB and AOA abundance by three long-term different land uses, pine tree plantation (30+ years), sheep farming (30+ years) and dairy farming (12+ years), located in close proximity on the same soil type. A laboratory incubation study was carried out to determine the impact of dairy cow urine application (simulating the deposition of dairy cattle urine after the conversion of tree plantation and sheep farming to dairy farming) on AOB and AOA growth and N2O emissions. The results showed that AOB abundance was higher in the dairy and sheep farm soils (P < 0.05) than in the pine tree soil but that the AOA abundance was higher in the sheep farm soil than in the dairy and pine tree soils (P < 0.05). When dairy cow urine was applied in the incubation study, the AOB growth was initially faster in the dairy, followed by sheep and then followed by the pine tree soil, but the growth continued for an extended period in the pine tree soil with the amoA gene copy numbers eventually exceeding those in the sheep and dairy pasture soils. AOA grew following urine application in the sheep soil but did not change in the other soils. Total N2O emissions in the pine tree soil was more than twice those from the dairy and sheep farm soils. These results demonstrate the significant impact of land use and land use change on ammonia oxidiser communities and subsequent impacts on nitrogen transformations and N2O emissions. Further research is needed to verify these results in the field.

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Soil suppressiveness and its relations with the microbial community in a Brazilian subtropical agroecosystem under different management systems

Published Date
May 2016, Vol.96:191197doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.02.010

Title 

Soil suppressiveness and its relations with the microbial community in a Brazilian subtropical agroecosystem under different management systems

  • Author 
  • Samanta B. Campos a
  • Bruno B. Lisboa b
  • Flavio A.O. Camargo c
  • Cimelio Bayer c
  • Alexander Sczyrba d
  • Paul Dirksen d
  • Andreas Albersmeier e
  • Jörn Kalinowski e
  • Anelise Beneduzi b
  • Pedro B. Costa f
  • Luciane Maria P. Passaglia f
  • Luciano K. Vargas b,,
  • Volker F. Wendisch a,,
  • aGenetics of Prokaryotes, Faculty of Biology & Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstr. 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
  • bState Foundation for Research in Agriculture (Fundação Estadual de Pesquisa Agropecuária – FEPAGRO), Rua Gonçalves Dias, 570, CEP 90130-060, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
  • cFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Faculty of Agronomy, Department of Soil Science, Av. Bento Gonçalves 7712, CEP 91540-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
  • dComputational Metagenomics, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Sequenz 1, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
  • eTechnology Platform Genomics, Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec), Bielefeld University, Sequenz 1, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
  • fFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Caixa Postal 15.053, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
  • We evaluated how crop and tillage systems affect soil suppressiveness.
  • We related soil suppressiveness with microbial and biochemical indicators of soil quality.
  • No-tillage and high-input crop systems increase soil suppressiveness.
  • Increasing microbial biomass and activity increases soil suppressiveness.
  • Specific bacterial genera are related to soil suppressiveness.

Abstract

The ability of soils to detain the onset of a disease in a susceptible host is called soil suppressiveness. Soil suppressiveness can often be attributed to the activity of soil microorganisms. Considering that soil management can drastically affect microbial soil communities, the objective of this work was to evaluate the impact of different crop systems and tillage practices on the suppression of wheat head blight, caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium graminearum, assessing the relationships between soil suppressiveness and microbial activity and diversity. Samples were taken from a long-term (30 years) experimental set-up in a Paleudult soil under conventional tillage or no-tillage management and three cropping systems: oat (Avena strigosa)/maize (Zea mays); vetch (Vicia sativa)/maize; and black oat + vetch/maize + cowpea (Vigna sinensis). The soil-borne fungus F. graminearum, the causal agent of wheat head blight, was used as model pathogen and wheat (Triticum aestivum) as model host plant. No-tillage soil samples showed the highest level of F. graminearum suppression by significantly reducing plant disease intensity. Of the cropping systems tested, the vetch + black oat/maize + cowpea system showed the highest suppressiveness and the oat/maize system showed the lowest. Microbial biomass, respiratory activity and the activity of the chitin degrading enzyme β-glucosaminidase followed the same trend, being associated to soil organic matter. ChitinophagaceaeAcidobacteriaceaeXanthomonadaceae and Burkholderiaceae were associated to soil suppressiveness.

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    Corresponding author. FEPAGRO, Rua Gonçalves Dias, 570, CEP 90130-060, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
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Linkages between extracellular enzyme activities and the carbon and nitrogen content of grassland soils

Published Date
May 2016, Vol.96:198206doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.02.015

Title 

Linkages between extracellular enzyme activities and the carbon and nitrogen content of grassland soils

  • Author 
  • Valeria L. Cenini a
  • Dario A. Fornara b,,
  • Geoffrey McMullan c
  • Nigel Ternan c
  • Rachael Carolanb
  • Michael J. Crawley d
  • Jean-Christophe Clément e
  • Sandra Lavorel e
  • aEnvironmental Sciences Research Institute, Ulster University, Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK
  • bAgri-Food & Biosciences Institute, BT9 5PX Belfast, UK
  • cSchool of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK
  • dDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK
  • eLaboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, UMR CNRS 5553, Université Grenoble Alpes BP53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

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