期刊
PEDOBIOLOGIA
卷 57, 期 4-6, 页码 205-213出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2014.10.001
关键词
Protists; Amoebae (Amoebozoa); Biodiversity; Soil moisture; Climate change
资金
- Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts
- Hesse ModellProjekte [155/08-17]
- LOEWE - Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-okonomischer Exzellenz, Forderlinie 3: KMU-Verbundvorhaben (State Offensive for the Development of Scientific and Economic Excellence)
- European Comission [FP7-264465]
Drought and heavy rainfall are contrasting conditions expected to result from increasingly extreme weather during climate change; and both scenarios will strongly affect the functioning of soil systems. However, little is known about the specific responses of soil microorganisms, whose functioning is intimately tied to the magnitude of the water-filled pore space in soil. Soil heterotrophic protists, being important aquatic soil organisms are considered as key-regulators of microbial nutrient turnover. We investigated the responses of distinct protist taxa to changes in soil water availability (SWA) using a modified enumeration technique that enabled quantification of protist taxa up to genus level. Our study revealed a non-linear shift of protist abundance with decreasing SWA and this became apparent at a maximum water-filled pore size of <= 40 mu m. Generally, taxa containing large specimen were more severely affected by drought, but responses to either drought or rewetting of soils were not uniform among taxa. Changes in water availability may thus affect the functioning of key taxa and soil ecosystems long before aboveground drought effects become apparent. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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