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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 5, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/srep07854
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC-31290222, 31130011, 31425005]
- Major State Basic Research Development Program (973 Planning Program) [2011CB403206]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong province [S2012020011084]
To explore the importance of soil microbial community composition on explaining the difference in heterotrophic soil respiration (R-h) across forests, a field investigation was conducted on R-h and soil physiochemical and microbial properties in four subtropical forests in southern China. We observed that R-h differed significantly among forests, being 2.48 +/- 0.23, 2.31 +/- 0.21, 1.83 +/- 0.08 and 1.56 +/- 0.15 mu mol m(-2) s(-1) in the climax evergreen broadleaf forest (BF), the mixed conifer and broadleaf forest (CF), the conifer plantation (CP), and the native broadleaved species plantation (BP), respectively. Both linear mixed effect model and variance decomposition analysis indicated that soil microbial community composition derived from phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) was not the first-order explanatory variable for the R-h variance across the forests, with the explanatory power being 15.7%. Contrastingly, vegetational attributes such as root biomass (22.6%) and soil substrate availability (18.6%) were more important for explaining the observed R-h variance. Our results therefore suggest that vegetation attributes and soil carbon pool size, rather than soil microbial community composition, should be preferentially considered to understand the spatial R-h variance across the subtropical forests in southern China.
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