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Critical transition of soil bacterial diversity and composition triggered by nitrogen enrichment
作   者: Liu WX, Jiang L, Yang S, Wang Z, Tian R, Peng ZY, Chen YL, Zhang XX, Kuang JL, Ling N, Wang SP, Liu LL*
期刊名称: Ecology
影响因子: 4.7
出版年份: 2020
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页     码: DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3053
论文摘要:
Soil bacterial communities are pivotal in regulating terrestrial biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem functions. The increase in global nitrogen (N) deposition has impacted various aspects of terrestrial ecosystems, but we still have a rudimentary understanding of whether there is a threshold for N input level beyond which soil bacterial communities will experience critical transitions. Using highthroughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, we examined soil bacterial responses to a longterm (13 yr), multilevel, N addition experiment in a temperate steppe of northern China. We found that plant diversity decreased in a linear fashion with increasing N addition. However, bacterial diversity responded nonlinearly to N addition, such that it was unaffected by N input below 16 g N·m-2·yr-1, but decreased substantially when N input exceeded 32 g N·m-2·yr-1. A metaanalysis across four N addition experiments in the same study region further confirmed this nonlinear response of bacterial diversity to N inputs. Substantial changes in soil bacterial community structure also occurred between N input levels of 16 to 32 g N·m-2·yr-1. Further analysis revealed that the loss of soil bacterial diversity was primarily attributed to the reduction in soil pH, whereas changes in soil bacterial community were driven by the combination of increased N availability, reduced soil pH, and changes in plant community structure. In addition, we found that N addition shifted bacterial communities toward more putatively copiotrophic taxa. Overall, our study identified a threshold of N input level for bacterial diversity and community composition. The nonlinear response of bacterial diversity to N input observed in our study indicates that although bacterial communities are resistant to low levels of N input, further increase in N input could trigger a critical transition, shifting bacterial communities to a lowdiversity state.

原文链接:https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.3053