Functional Soil Organic Matter Fractions, Microbial Community, and Enzyme Activities in a Mollisol Under 35 Years Manure and Mineral Fertilization

Fertilization is a worldwide practice to maintain and increase crop productivity and improve soil quality in agricultural ecosystems. The interactive mechanisms of long-term fertilization affecting the functional soil organic matter (SOM) fractions, microbial community, and enzyme activities are unclear. We investigated the effects of manure and mineral fertilization on six SOM fractions (non-protected, physically, chemically, biochemically, physical-chemically, and physical-biochemically protected), microbial community structure, and enzyme activities based on a 35-year fertilization experiment. The combined application of manure and mineral fertilizers (NPKM) increased the soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN) in the biochemically (28.6–43.9%) and physically (108–229%) protected fractions, compared to their content in the unfertilized soil (CK). The total phospholipid fatty acid content, Gram(−) bacteria, and actinomycetes, as well as the activities of α-1,4-glucosidase, β-1,4-N-acetylglucosaminidase, β-1,4-xylosidase, and cellobiohydrolase were highest under NPKM fertilization. The protected SOM fractions (physical, biochemical, physical-chemical, and physical-biochemical) were closely related to microbial community composition (accounting for 67.6% of the variance). Bacteria were sensitive to changes in the physically and biochemically protected fractions, whereas fungi responded more to the changes in the chemically protected fraction. In summary, long-term mineral and organic fertilization has a strong effect on microbial communities and activities through the changes in the functional SOM fractions. © 2019, Sociedad Chilena de la Ciencia del Suelo.

Authors
Yang F. 1 , Tian J.1 , Fang H.4 , Gao Y.4 , Xu M.6 , Lou Y.7 , Zhou B.8 , Kuzyakov Y. 9, 10, 11
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Number of issue
2
Language
English
Pages
430-439
Status
Published
Volume
19
Year
2019
Organizations
  • 1 College of Resources and Environmental Sciences
  • 2 National Academy of Agriculture Green Development
  • 3 Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
  • 4 Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
  • 5 State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, 712100, China
  • 6 National Engineering Laboratory for Improving Quality of Arable Land, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
  • 7 Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China
  • 8 Institute of Soil Fertilizer and Environment Resources, Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haerbin, 150086, China
  • 9 Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, Department of Agricultural Soil Science, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, 37077, Germany
  • 10 Institute of Environmental Sciences, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, 420049, Russian Federation
  • 11 Agro-Technological Institute, RUDN University, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation
Keywords
Enzyme activities; Long-term fertilization; Microbial community composition; Soil aggregation; Soil organic matter fractions
Date of creation
20.07.2021
Date of change
20.07.2021
Short link
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