Journal
APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 104, Issue 16, Pages 7213-7224Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-020-10761-2
Keywords
Chinese fir; Plantation; Soil nutrient; Phospholipid fatty acids; Illumina sequencing
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- Innovation Fund Designated for Graduate Students of Jiangxi Agricultural University [NDYC2017-B001]
- National Natural Science Foundations of China [31760200, 31730014]
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Bacteria play determining roles in forest soil environment and contribute to essential functions in the cycling of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). Understanding the effects of different fertilizer applications, especially successive fertilization, on soil properties and bacterial community could reveal the impacts of fertilization on forest soil ecology and shed light on the nutrient cycling in forest system. This study aimed to evaluate the impacts of successive mineral N (NH4NO3) and P (NaH2PO4) fertilization at different rates, alone or together, on soil bacterial biomass and communities at 0-5, 5-10, and 10-20 cm. Compared with the control, N fertilization decreased soil pH, but P alone or with N fertilization had negligibly negative impacts on soil pH. Different mineral fertilizer applications, alone or together, showed no significant effects on soil organic matter contents, relative to the control treatment. Bacterial biomass remained stable to different fertilizations but decreased with sampling depths. Sole N or P fertilization, rather than combined fertilizations, significantly changed soil bacterial community structures. Our results demonstrated that mineral N or P fertilization alone significantly affected bacterial community structures rather than biomass in the plantation soils.
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