植物生态学报 ›› 2026, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (4): 846-858.DOI: 10.17521/cjpe.2025.0108  cstr: 32100.14.cjpe.2025.0108

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热带次生林恢复过程中土壤微生物对不同菌根类型树苗存活和生长性状的影响

封逸凡, 朱时应, 周淑荣, 江乐乐, 陈隆, 王苗, 邓国芳, 刘兰*()   

  1. 海南大学生态学院, 海南省农林环境过程与生态调控重点实验室, 海口 570228
  • 收稿日期:2025-03-25 接受日期:2025-08-25 出版日期:2026-04-20 发布日期:2026-07-15
  • 通讯作者: *刘兰(liulan_sh@qq.com)
  • 基金资助:
    海南省自然科学基金(322RC581)

Impacts of soil microorganisms on survival and growth traits of different mycorrhizal tree seedlings in tropical secondary forest restoration

FENG Yi-Fan, ZHU Shi-Ying, ZHOU Shu-Rong, JIANG Le-Le, CHEN Long, WANG Miao, DENG Guo-Fang, LIU Lan*()   

  1. Key Laboratory of Agro-Forestry Environmental Processes and Ecological Regulation of Hainan Province, School of Ecology, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
  • Received:2025-03-25 Accepted:2025-08-25 Online:2026-04-20 Published:2026-07-15
  • Contact: *LIU Lan(liulan_sh@qq.com)
  • Supported by:
    Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation(322RC581)

摘要:

土壤微生物在植物群落动态中发挥着关键作用。然而, 目前尚不清楚土壤微生物如何影响不同菌根类型树种的存活和生长性状, 以及这些影响是否随植被恢复进程变化, 尤其是在热带森林生态系统中。该研究选择3种丛枝菌根和3种外生菌根热带树种(通过将其种植在原始热带雨林土壤中预先接种菌根真菌), 采用灭菌处理, 研究了植被恢复早期(约20年)和晚期(约60年)土壤中, 微生物的存在与否对树苗存活和生长性状的影响。研究结果表明: 1)灭菌显著提高了恢复早期土壤中丛枝菌根树苗的存活率, 但降低了恢复晚期土壤中外生菌根树苗的存活率。土壤微生物对幼苗性状的影响受到菌根类型和演替阶段的共同作用: 灭菌处理显著增加了恢复早期土壤中丛枝菌根树苗的比叶面积、叶长、叶宽, 以及恢复晚期的叶干质量、叶宽和菌根侵染率, 但降低了恢复早期树苗的叶片厚度和根平均直径; 灭菌还显著降低了恢复早期土壤中外生菌根树苗的比叶面积和根平均直径。在未灭菌条件下, 则促进恢复晚期树苗的地上生物量、叶干质量、叶长和根表面积增加。2)随种植的同种密度的增加, 恢复早期土壤微生物对树苗性状的影响强于恢复晚期: 未灭菌土壤中, 高密度显著促进树苗叶干质量、叶长、叶宽等生长性状。在灭菌土壤中, 除比叶面积以外, 大部分性状都受到抑制。此外, 不同树种的存活率和生长性状也表现出显著差异。因此, 土壤微生物对树苗存活和生长性状的影响因菌根类型、恢复阶段和种植密度不同而异, 将这些因素纳入考虑, 以减少土壤微生物的潜在不利影响, 可能有助于提高热带森林植被恢复的成功率。

关键词: 热带森林, 土壤微生物, 功能性状, 同种密度, 竞争

Abstract:

Aims Soil microorganisms play a key role in plant community dynamics. However, it remains unclear how these microorganisms influence survival and growth traits of different mycorrhizal tree species, and whether these effects vary with vegetation restoration stages, especially in tropical forest ecosystems.

Methods This study selected seedlings of three arbuscular mycorrhizal and three ectomycorrhizal tropical tree species. These seedlings were pre-inoculated with mycorrhizal fungi by planting them into natural tropical rainforest soil. Using sterilization treatments, we investigated the effects of microbial presence/absence on seedling survival and growth traits in soils from early (approximately 20 years) and late (approximately 60 years) vegetation restoration stages.

Important findings 1) Sterilization significantly increased the survival rate of arbuscular mycorrhizal seedlings in early-stage soils but reduced the survival rate of ectomycorrhizal seedlings in late-stage soils. Meanwhile, sterilization significantly increased the specific leaf area, leaf length and leaf width of arbuscular mycorrhizal seedlings in early stage, and leaf dry mass, leaf width and mycorrhizal infection rate of seedlings in late stage, while reducing leaf thickness and mean root diameter in early stage. In addition, sterilization significantly reduced the specific leaf area and mean root diameter of ectomycorrhizal seedlings in early stage. Under unsterilized conditions, above-ground biomass, leaf dry mass, leaf length, and root surface area in later stage increased. 2) With increasing plant density, the influence of soil microorganisms on seedling traits in early stage was stronger than that in late stage. In unsterilized soil, high density significantly promoted leaf dry mass, leaf length, and leaf width, whereas in sterilized soil, most traits, except specific leaf area, were suppressed. Furthermore, differences in the survival rates and growth traits varied significantly among tree species. Therefore, the influence of soil microorganisms on the survival and growth traits of seedlings varies with mycorrhizal types, restoration stages, and planting densities. Taking these factors into account to reduce the potential adverse effects of soil microorganisms may help increase the success rate of tropical forest vegetation restoration.

Key words: tropical forest, soil microbes, functional traits, conspecific density, competition