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Responses of edaphic factors and microbial community to terrestrial succession and experimental warming in coastal salt marshes

Journal

PEDOBIOLOGIA
Volume 93-94, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2022.150821

Keywords

Edaphic factors; Microbial community; Terrestrial succession; Warming; Coastal salt marsh

Funding

  1. Shanghai Municipal Natural Science Foundation [22ZR1421500]
  2. Open Project Program of Keylaboratory of Marine Ecological Monitoring and Restoration Technolo-gies [MEMRT202103]
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China [41876093, 31800411]
  4. Designated Resource Monitoring for Shanghai Chongming Dongtan Birds National Nature Reserve [CMDT-JC202101]

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This study investigated the combined effects of terrestrial succession and climate warming on the edaphic factors and microbial community of coastal salt marshes. The results showed significant changes in soil properties and microbial community structure, as well as alterations in the relative abundances of dominant microorganisms and functional groups involved in C and N cycling. The findings suggested the importance of adaptive soil management practices to mitigate soil degradation under predicted climate warming.
To date, how the combined effects of terrestrial succession and climate warming will affect the edaphic factors and microbial community of coastal salt marshes remains unclear. To address this question, we compared the growth traits (i.e., morphology and biomass), edaphic properties, microbial community and function of Phragmites australis and Imperata cylindrica communities under natural vegetation succession (i.e., shift from P. australis to I. cylindrica) with or without warming treatment of I. cylindrica over two growing seasons (2019-2020). The results showed that after terrestrial succession, soil water content (SWC), electrical conductivity, clay content, total organic carbon and total nitrogen decreased significantly, while soil pH and contents of nitrate (NO3--N) and ammonium (NH4+-N) increased. The microbial community structure was greatly altered by terrestrial succession. The combination of terrestrial succession and experimental warming reinforced the change trends of SWC and pH but caused NO3--N and NH4+-N to decline to levels as low as those before succession. Although little response in microbial community structure was detected, the relative abundances of some dominant microorganisms and functional groups involved in C and N cycling were altered under the combination treatment. These variations in dominant microorganisms and predicted functional groups were related to changes in SWC, pH and particle size fractions and further influenced soil aeration and C/N availability. We concluded that in coastal salt marshes, experimental warming could further alter soil edaphic factors after terrestrial succession with little effect on microbial community structure. The changes in microbial community composition and function had a close correlation with edaphic factors. Our results suggested that adaptive soil management practices (i.e., inoculation of important microorganisms) should be considered to mitigate the soil degradation of coastal salt marshes with terrestrial succession under predicted climate warming.

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