植物生态学报 ›› 2021, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (5): 539-551.DOI: 10.17521/cjpe.2020.0330

所属专题: 青藏高原植物生态学:群落生态学

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青藏高原禾草混播对土壤微生物多样性的影响

姜鑫, 牛克昌*()   

  1. 南京大学生命科学学院, 南京 210023
  • 收稿日期:2020-10-10 接受日期:2021-02-04 出版日期:2021-05-20 发布日期:2021-03-09
  • 通讯作者: 牛克昌
  • 作者简介:*牛克昌:ORCID: 0000-0002-2131-2279(kechangniu@nju.edu.cn)
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(31870402)

Effects of grass mixed-sowing on soil microbial diversity on the Qingzang (Tibetan) Plateau

JIANG Xin, NIU Ke-Chang*()   

  1. School of Life Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
  • Received:2020-10-10 Accepted:2021-02-04 Online:2021-05-20 Published:2021-03-09
  • Contact: NIU Ke-Chang
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31870402)

摘要:

土壤微生物多样性的形成、维持和变化机理是生态学研究的核心内容, 已有大量研究表明土壤微生物群落构建不仅受到土壤环境的深刻影响, 也与植物群落物种多样性密切相关。由于自然群落中土壤环境和植物多样性协同影响土壤微生物, 难以区分和厘清植物多样性和土壤环境对土壤微生物多样性构建的各自影响。该研究基于在青藏高原高寒草地构建的人工草地群落, 比较分析了3种优势禾本科牧草单播和混播及施肥处理13年后, 土壤细菌和真菌物种多样性及其与植物群落和土壤理化因子的关系。主要结果: 1)与各单播处理相比, 3种牧草两两混播一致显著降低了土壤细菌群落的丰富度和多样性, 其中变形菌门和放线菌门相对丰度显著增加, 而酸杆菌门、拟杆菌门和浮霉菌门相对丰度显著减小; 牧草混播对土壤真菌多样性没有显著影响。2)牧草混播显著降低了土壤pH和土壤全氮含量, 增加了土壤全磷含量; 施肥显著降低土壤pH, 增加了土壤速效磷含量; 但这些土壤理化因子的变化不足以解释土壤细菌和真菌多样性在处理间的差异。3)施肥显著提高了植物群落地上生物量, 降低了植物物种丰富度, 土壤细菌多样性随植物物种丰富度增加而减小, 而与植物生物量变化无关。该研究在野外条件下, 通过长期控制实验揭示了高寒草地禾草混播并不增加土壤微生物多样性, 为高寒地区牧草混播人工草地实践提供了科学依据。

关键词: 植物多样性, 土壤微生物多样性, 混播, 多样性促进多样性

Abstract:

Aims How soil microbial diversity assembly, maintain and change is a key topic of ecology. A large number of studies show that soil microbial biodiversity is controlled not only by soil environment but also by plant species. However, due to strong covariation between the two factors in the field, it remains a challenge to isolate and clarify the role of plant diversity in regulating soil microbial biodiversity. Hence, here, we aim to clarify how plant diversity affects soil microbial diversity in environment-consistent artificial communities.
Methods In this study, we examined differences in species diversity of soil bacteria and fungi among plots subjected single- and mixed-sowing of three grass species with fertilization treatments after 13 years’ experiment on the eastern Qingzang (Tibetan) Plateau. We also analyzed the relationships between soil microbial diversity and edaphic factors as well as plant community attributes.
Important findings (1) The species richness and diversity of soil bacteria, not including soil fungi, significantly and consistently decreased in mixed-sowing plots relative to single-sowing plots, with higher relative abundances in proteobacteria and actinobacteria but lower in acidobacteria, bacteroidetes and planctomycetes in the mixed- sowing plots. (2) Soil pH and total nitrogen content significantly decreased while soil total phosphorus content increased in mixed-sowing plots relative to single-sowing plots. Fertilization significantly increased soil available phosphorus while decreased soil pH and soil humidity. However, variations in these edaphic factors contributed little in variation of soil microbial diversity. (3) Fertilization significantly increased plant aboveground biomass while decreasing richness of present plant species, which was also negatively associated with soil bacterial diversity. In short, this long-term field experiment clearly showed that mixed-sowing of common grass species did not promote diversity of soil microbes. This study provides new insight into management of grasses mixed-sowing artificial grasslands.

Key words: plant diversity, soil microbial diversity, mixed-sowing, diversity begets diversity