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Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming

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dc.contributor.author Cui J.
dc.contributor.author Zhu Z.
dc.contributor.author Xu X.
dc.contributor.author Liu S.
dc.contributor.author Jones D.L.
dc.contributor.author Kuzyakov Y.
dc.contributor.author Shibistova O.
dc.contributor.author Wu J.
dc.contributor.author Ge T.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-24T20:33:53Z
dc.date.available 2021-02-24T20:33:53Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.issn 0038-0717
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/160920
dc.description.abstract © 2020 Elsevier Ltd The impact of increasing amounts of labile C input on priming effects (PE) on soil organic matter (SOM) mineralization remains unclear, particularly under anoxic conditions and under high C input common in microbial hotspots. PE and their mechanisms were investigated by a 60-day incubation of three flooded paddy soils amended with13C-labeled glucose equivalent to 50–500% of microbial biomass C (MBC). PE (14–55% of unamended soil) peaked at moderate glucose addition rates (i.e., 50–300% of MBC). Glucose addition above 300% of MBC suppressed SOM mineralization but intensified microbial N acquisition, which contradicted the common PE mechanism of accelerating SOM decomposition for N-supply (frequently termed as “N mining”). Particularly at glucose input rate higher than 3 g kg−1 (i.e., 300–500% of MBC), mineral N content dropped on day 2 close to zero (1.1–2.5 mg N kg−1) because of microbial N immobilization. To cope with the N limitation, microorganisms greatly increased N-acetyl glucosaminidase and leucine aminopeptidase activities, while SOM decomposition decreased. Several discrete peaks of glucose-derived CO2 (contributing >80% to total CO2) were observed between days 13–30 under high glucose input (300–500% of MBC), concurrently with CH4 peaks. Such CO2 dynamics was distinct from the common exponential decay pattern, implicating the recycling and mineralization of 13C-enriched microbial necromass driven by glucose addition. Therefore, N recycling from necromass was hypothesized as a major mechanism to alleviate microbial N deficiency without SOM priming under excess labile C input. Compound-specific 13C-PLFA confirmed the redistribution of glucose-derived C among microbial groups, i.e., necromass recycling. Following glucose input, more than 4/5 of total 13C-PLFA was in the gram-negative and some non-specific bacteria, suggesting these microorganisms as r-strategists capable of rapidly utilizing the most labile C. However, their 13C-PLFA content decreased by 70% after 60 days, probably as a result of death of these r-strategists. On the contrary, the 13C-PLFA in gram-positive bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi (K-strategists) was initially minimal but increased by 0.5–5 folds between days 2 and 60. Consequently, the necromass of dead r-strategists provided a high-quality C–N source to the K-strategists. We conclude that under severe C excess, N recycling from necromass is a much more efficient microbial strategy to cover the acute N demand than N acquisition from the recalcitrant SOM.
dc.relation.ispartofseries Soil Biology and Biochemistry
dc.subject Compound-specific C-PLFA analysis 13
dc.subject Glucose mineralization
dc.subject Necromass recycling
dc.subject Priming effects
dc.subject Soil carbon
dc.subject Stoichiometric imbalance
dc.title Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 142
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.source.id SCOPUS00380717-2020-142-SID85078001183


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