Increasing temperature can modify the effect of straw mulching on soil C fractions, soil respiration, and microbial community composition
Abstract
Straw mulching has been widely adopted in dryland cropping but its effect on soil respiration and microbial communities under warming are not well understood. Soil samples were collected from a corn field with straw mulching (SM) for nine years and without straw mulching (CK), and incubated at 15°C, 25°C, and 35°C for 60 days. Soil respiration, C fractions and bacterial and fungal community structure were measured SM had greater soil organic carbon and potential C mineralization and a similar microbial biomass carbon throughout the incubation when compared with CK. Soil respiration increased with increasing temperature and its temperature sensitivity (Q₁₀) was lower with SM than CK. Similar microbial community composition was found in the soils with SM and CK before incubation. However, SM had a greater bacterial richness and the relative abundances of Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Nitrospirae, Planctomycetes, Bacteroidetes, and Basidiomycota, but lower relative abundances of Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, and Ascomycota than CK after incubation. Bacterial richness and diversity were greater at 15°C and 25°C than 35°C, but there was no difference in fungal richness and diversity among the incubation temperatures. As temperature increased, the relative abundances of Chloroflexi, Acidobacteria, and Bacteroidetes decreased, but Gemmatimonadetes and Ascomycota increased, and were significantly correlated with soil C fractions and respiration. These findings indicated that the effect of straw mulching on soil C cycling and microbial community structure can be highly modified by increasing temperature.
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© 2020 Fu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Received: February 15, 2020; Accepted: July 22, 2020; Published: August 11, 2020. Peer Review History: PLOS recognizes the benefits of transparency in the peer review process; therefore, we enable the publication of all of the content of peer review and author responses alongside final, published articles. The editorial history of this article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237245. Data Availability Statement: The raw sequences for all samples were sent to the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) with the accession numbers SRP260944 for bacteria and SRP261054 for fungi. All other relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting Information files. The study was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences 505 "Light of West China" Program for Introduced Talent in the West, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 507 31570440, 31270484), and the Key International Scientific and Technological Cooperation and Exchange Project of Shaanxi Province, China (grant number 2020KWZ-010). Author Contributions: Data curation: Xin Fu, Mengyi Xie. Formal analysis: Fazhu Zhao. Funding acquisition: Jun Wang. Methodology: Jun Wang, Fazhu Zhao. Resources: Jun Wang. Writing – original draft: Xin Fu. Writing – review & editing: Jun Wang, Russell Doughty. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.Attached Files
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- 2020KWZ-010
- Key International Scientific and Technological Cooperation and Exchange Project of Shaanxi Province
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