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Regional-scale patterns of soil microbes and nematodes across grasslands on the Mongolian plateau: relationships with climate, soil, and plants
Chen, Dima; Cheng, Junhui; Chu, Pengfei; Hu, Shuijin1; Xie, Yichun2; Tuvshintogtokh, Indree3; Bai, Yongfei
2015
Source PublicationECOGRAPHY
ISSN0906-7590
Volume38Issue:6Pages:622-631
AbstractBelowground communities exert major controls over the carbon and nitrogen balances of terrestrial ecosystems by regulating decomposition and nutrient availability for plants. Yet little is known about the patterns of belowground communities and their relationships with environmental factors, particularly at the regional scale where multiple environmental gradients co-vary. Here, we describe the patterns of belowground communities (microbes and nematodes) and their relationships with environmental factors based on two parallel studies: a field survey with two regional-scale transects across the Mongolia plateau and a water-addition experiment in a typical steppe. In the field survey, soils and plants were collected across two large-scale transects (a 2000-km east-west transect and a 900-km south-north transect). At the regional-scale, the variations in soil microbes (e.g. bacterial PLFA, fungal PLFA, and F/B ratio) were mainly explained by precipitation and soil factors. In contrast, the variation in soil nematodes (e.g. density of trophic groups and the bacterial-feeding/fungal-feeding nematode ratio) were primarily explained by precipitation. These variations of microbe or nematode variables explained by environmental factors at regional scale were derived from different vegetation types. Along the gradient from nutrient-poor to nutrient-rich vegetation types, the total variation in soil microbes explained by precipitation increased and that explained by plant and soil decreased, while the opposite was true for soil nematodes. Experimental water addition, which increased rainfall by 30% during the growing season, increased biomass or density of belowground communities, with the nematodes being more responsive than the microbes. The different responses of soil microbial and nematode communities to environmental gradients at the regional scale likely reflect their different adaptations to climate, soil nutrients, and plants. Our findings suggest that the soil nematode and microbial communities are strongly controlled by bottom-up effects of precipitation alone or in combination with soil conditions.
Subject AreaBiodiversity Conservation ; Ecology
DOI10.1111/ecog.01226
Indexed BySCI
Language英语
WOS KeywordCOMMUNITY STRUCTURE ; LAND-USE ; FUNGAL COMMUNITIES ; WATER AVAILABILITY ; PH GRADIENT ; BOTTOM-UP ; FOOD-WEB ; DIVERSITY ; BACTERIAL ; PRODUCTIVITY
WOS Research AreaScience Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS IDWOS:000355684500008
PublisherWILEY
SubtypeArticle
Publication PlaceHOBOKEN
EISSN1600-0587
Funding OrganizationNatural Science Foundation of China [31030013, 31320103916, 31100335] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA05050400] ; Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [KSCX2-EW-Z-5]
Corresponding Author Emailyfbai@ibcas.ac.cn
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Document Type期刊论文
Identifierhttp://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/25859
Collection植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
Affiliation1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China
2.N Carolina State Univ, Dept Plant Pathol, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
3.Eastern Michigan Univ, Dept Geog & Geol, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 USA
4.Mongolian Acad Sci, Inst Bot, Dept Vegetat Ecol, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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Chen, Dima,Cheng, Junhui,Chu, Pengfei,et al. Regional-scale patterns of soil microbes and nematodes across grasslands on the Mongolian plateau: relationships with climate, soil, and plants[J]. ECOGRAPHY,2015,38(6):622-631.
APA Chen, Dima.,Cheng, Junhui.,Chu, Pengfei.,Hu, Shuijin.,Xie, Yichun.,...&Bai, Yongfei.(2015).Regional-scale patterns of soil microbes and nematodes across grasslands on the Mongolian plateau: relationships with climate, soil, and plants.ECOGRAPHY,38(6),622-631.
MLA Chen, Dima,et al."Regional-scale patterns of soil microbes and nematodes across grasslands on the Mongolian plateau: relationships with climate, soil, and plants".ECOGRAPHY 38.6(2015):622-631.
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