Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa
Changes in the water regime are among the crucial factors controlling soil carbon dynamics. However, at the aggregate scale, the microbial mechanisms that regulate soil respiration under flooding and drying conditions are obscure. In this research, we investigated how the shift from flooding to dryi...
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| description | Changes in the water regime are among the crucial factors controlling soil carbon dynamics. However, at the aggregate scale, the microbial mechanisms that regulate soil respiration under flooding and drying conditions are obscure. In this research, we investigated how the shift from flooding to drying changes the microbial respiration of soil aggregates by affecting microbial community composition and their co-occurrence patterns. Soils collected from a riparian zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China, were subjected to a wet-and-dry incubation experiment. Our data illustrated that the shift from flooding to drying substantially enhanced soil respiration for all sizes of aggregate fractions. Moreover, soil respiration declined with aggregate size in both flooding and drying treatments. The keystone taxa in bacterial networks were found to be Acidobacteriales, Gemmatimonadales, Anaerolineales, and Cytophagales during the flooding treatment, and Rhizobiales, Gemmatimonadales, Sphingomonadales, and Solirubrobacterales during the drying treatment. For fungal networks, Hypocreales and Agaricalesin were the keystone taxa in the flooding and drying treatments, respectively. Furthermore, the shift from flooding to drying enhanced the microbial respiration of soil aggregates by changing keystone taxa. Notably, fungal community composition and network properties dominated the changes in the microbial respiration of soil aggregates during the shift from flooding to drying. Thus, our study highlighted that the shift from flooding to drying changes keystone taxa, hence increasing aggregate-scale soil respiration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a0d64be686164378ab938c3593b2dc572023-05-12T09:03:14ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Microbiology1664-302X2023-05-011410.3389/fmicb.2023.11673531167353Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxaKai ZhuWeitao JiaYu MeiShengjun WuPing HuangChanges in the water regime are among the crucial factors controlling soil carbon dynamics. However, at the aggregate scale, the microbial mechanisms that regulate soil respiration under flooding and drying conditions are obscure. In this research, we investigated how the shift from flooding to drying changes the microbial respiration of soil aggregates by affecting microbial community composition and their co-occurrence patterns. Soils collected from a riparian zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, China, were subjected to a wet-and-dry incubation experiment. Our data illustrated that the shift from flooding to drying substantially enhanced soil respiration for all sizes of aggregate fractions. Moreover, soil respiration declined with aggregate size in both flooding and drying treatments. The keystone taxa in bacterial networks were found to be Acidobacteriales, Gemmatimonadales, Anaerolineales, and Cytophagales during the flooding treatment, and Rhizobiales, Gemmatimonadales, Sphingomonadales, and Solirubrobacterales during the drying treatment. For fungal networks, Hypocreales and Agaricalesin were the keystone taxa in the flooding and drying treatments, respectively. Furthermore, the shift from flooding to drying enhanced the microbial respiration of soil aggregates by changing keystone taxa. Notably, fungal community composition and network properties dominated the changes in the microbial respiration of soil aggregates during the shift from flooding to drying. Thus, our study highlighted that the shift from flooding to drying changes keystone taxa, hence increasing aggregate-scale soil respiration.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1167353/fullsoil respirationsoil aggregateswater regime changesmicrobial communityco-occurrence networkkeystone taxa |
| spellingShingle | Kai Zhu Weitao Jia Yu Mei Shengjun Wu Ping Huang Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa Frontiers in Microbiology soil respiration soil aggregates water regime changes microbial community co-occurrence network keystone taxa |
| title | Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa |
| title_full | Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa |
| title_fullStr | Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa |
| title_short | Shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa |
| title_sort | shift from flooding to drying enhances the respiration of soil aggregates by changing microbial community composition and keystone taxa |
| topic | soil respiration soil aggregates water regime changes microbial community co-occurrence network keystone taxa |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1167353/full |
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