Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply
The supply of recent photosynthate from plants to soils is thought to be a critical mechanism regulating the activity and diversity of soil biota. In the Arctic, large-scale vegetation transitions are underway in response to warming, and there is an urgent need to understand how these changes affect...
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canopy disturbance fungi metabarcoding mycorrhizal fungi Plant–soil (below-ground) interactions soil fauna subarctic Parker, Thomas C Chomel, Mathilde Clemmensen, Karina E Friggens, Nina L Hartley, Iain P Johnson, David Kater, Ilona Krab, Eveline J Lindahl, Björn D Street, Lorna E Subke, Jens‐Arne Wookey, Philip A Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply |
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The supply of recent photosynthate from plants to soils is thought to be a critical mechanism regulating the activity and diversity of soil biota. In the Arctic, large-scale vegetation transitions are underway in response to warming, and there is an urgent need to understand how these changes affect soil biodiversity and function. We investigated how abundance and diversity of soil fungi and invertebrates responded to a reduction in fresh below-ground photosynthate supply in treeline birch and willow, achieved using stem girdling. We hypothesised that birch forest would support greater abundance of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal species and fauna than willow shrubs, and that girdling would result in a rapid switch from ECM fungi to saprotrophs as canopy supply of C was cut, with a concomitant decline in soil fauna. Birch forest had greater fungal and faunal abundance with a large contribution of root-associated ascomycetes (ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and root endophytes) compared to willow shrub plots, which had a higher proportion of saprotrophs and, contrary to our expectations, ECM fungi. Broad-scale soil fungal and faunal functional group composition was not significantly changed by girdling, even in the third year of treatment. Within the ECM community, there were some changes, with genera that are believed to be particularly C-demanding declining in girdled plots. However, it was notable how most ECM fungi remained present after 3 years of isolation of the below-ground compartment from contemporary photosynthate supply. Synthesis. In a treeline/tundra ecosystem, distinct soil communities existed in contrasting vegetation patches within the landscape, but the structure of these communities was resistant to canopy disturbance and concomitant reduction of autotrophic C inputs. |
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Parker, Thomas C Chomel, Mathilde Clemmensen, Karina E Friggens, Nina L Hartley, Iain P Johnson, David Kater, Ilona Krab, Eveline J Lindahl, Björn D Street, Lorna E Subke, Jens‐Arne Wookey, Philip A |
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Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply |
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Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply |
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Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply |
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Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply |
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Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply |
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resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply |
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ftunivstirling:oai:dspace.stir.ac.uk:1893/34787 2023-05-15T14:28:02+02:00 Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply Parker, Thomas C Chomel, Mathilde Clemmensen, Karina E Friggens, Nina L Hartley, Iain P Johnson, David Kater, Ilona Krab, Eveline J Lindahl, Björn D Street, Lorna E Subke, Jens‐Arne Wookey, Philip A NERC Natural Environment Research Council Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Manchester Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences University of Exeter University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh orcid:0000-0002-3648-5316 orcid:0000-0001-5110-2355 orcid:0000-0002-9627-6428 orcid:0000-0002-5536-6312 orcid:0000-0002-9183-6617 orcid:0000-0003-2299-2525 orcid:0000-0002-2910-1337 orcid:0000-0001-8262-0198 orcid:0000-0002-3384-4547 orcid:0000-0001-9570-7479 orcid:0000-0001-9244-639X orcid:0000-0001-5957-6424 2022-12 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34787 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13994 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/5a66e4c0-7d3e-456c-ae93-d070fd1fea45/Journal%20of%20Ecology%20-%202022%20-%20Parker%20-%20Resistance%20of%20subarctic%20soil%20fungal%20and%20invertebrate%20communities%20to%20disruption%20of.pdf en eng Wiley Parker TC, Chomel M, Clemmensen KE, Friggens NL, Hartley IP, Johnson D, Kater I, Krab EJ, Lindahl BD, Street LE, Subke J & Wookey PA (2022) Resistance of subarctic soil fungal and invertebrate communities to disruption of below‐ground carbon supply. Journal of Ecology , 110 (12), pp. 2883-2897. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13994 Will more productive Arctic ecosystems sequester less soil carbon? A key role for priming in the rhizosphere ("PRIME-TIME") NE/P002722/2 http://hdl.handle.net/1893/34787 doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13994 WOS:000868770400001 2-s2.0-85139961339 1861984 http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/retrieve/5a66e4c0-7d3e-456c-ae93-d070fd1fea45/Journal%20of%20Ecology%20-%202022%20-%20Parker%20-%20Resistance%20of%20subarctic%20soil%20fungal%20and%20invertebrate%20communities%20to%20disruption%20of.pdf © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY canopy disturbance fungi metabarcoding mycorrhizal fungi Plant–soil (below-ground) interactions soil fauna subarctic Journal Article VoR - Version of Record 2022 ftunivstirling https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13994 2023-02-09T23:17:17Z The supply of recent photosynthate from plants to soils is thought to be a critical mechanism regulating the activity and diversity of soil biota. In the Arctic, large-scale vegetation transitions are underway in response to warming, and there is an urgent need to understand how these changes affect soil biodiversity and function. We investigated how abundance and diversity of soil fungi and invertebrates responded to a reduction in fresh below-ground photosynthate supply in treeline birch and willow, achieved using stem girdling. We hypothesised that birch forest would support greater abundance of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal species and fauna than willow shrubs, and that girdling would result in a rapid switch from ECM fungi to saprotrophs as canopy supply of C was cut, with a concomitant decline in soil fauna. Birch forest had greater fungal and faunal abundance with a large contribution of root-associated ascomycetes (ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and root endophytes) compared to willow shrub plots, which had a higher proportion of saprotrophs and, contrary to our expectations, ECM fungi. Broad-scale soil fungal and faunal functional group composition was not significantly changed by girdling, even in the third year of treatment. Within the ECM community, there were some changes, with genera that are believed to be particularly C-demanding declining in girdled plots. However, it was notable how most ECM fungi remained present after 3 years of isolation of the below-ground compartment from contemporary photosynthate supply. Synthesis. In a treeline/tundra ecosystem, distinct soil communities existed in contrasting vegetation patches within the landscape, but the structure of these communities was resistant to canopy disturbance and concomitant reduction of autotrophic C inputs. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Subarctic Tundra University of Stirling: Stirling Digital Research Repository Arctic Journal of Ecology 110 12 2883 2897 |