Journal
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 10, Pages 3854-3863Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12956
Keywords
Global change; microbial functional diversity; MicroResp; nitrogen addition; nutrient cycling; precipitation pattern; soil respiration
Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Education
- Pablo de Olavide University
- Fulbright fellowship of Spanish Ministry of Education
- Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation [SFRH/BDP/87966/2012]
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
- European Social Fund (ESF)
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Climate change and atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition are two of the most important global change drivers. However, the interactions of these drivers have not been well studied. We aimed to assess how the combined effect of soil N additions and more frequent soil drying-rewetting events affects carbon (C) and N cycling, soil:atmosphere greenhouse gas (GHG) exchange, and functional microbial diversity. We manipulated the frequency of soil drying-rewetting events in soils from ambient and N-treated plots in a temperate forest and calculated the Orwin & Wardle Resistance index to compare the response of the different treatments. Increases in drying-rewetting cycles led to reductions in soil NO3- levels, potential net nitrification rate, and soil:atmosphere GHG exchange, and increases in NH4+ and total soil inorganic N levels. N-treated soils were more resistant to changes in the frequency of drying-rewetting cycles, and this resistance was stronger for C- than for N-related variables. Both the long-term N addition and the drying-rewetting treatment altered the functionality of the soil microbial population and its functional diversity. Our results suggest that increasing the frequency of drying-rewetting cycles can affect the ability of soil to cycle C and N and soil:atmosphere GHG exchange and that the response to this increase is modulated by soil N enrichment.
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