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The impact of Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea L.) colony on soil biogeochemistry and vegetation: a natural long-term in situ experiment in a planted pine forest

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dc.contributor Казанский федеральный университет
dc.contributor.author Bogachev Mikhail Igorevich
dc.contributor.author Tishin Denis Vladimirovich
dc.contributor.author Gafurov Artur Maratovich
dc.contributor.author Gareev Bulat Irekovich
dc.contributor.author Imaev Rasul Gabdrafikovich
dc.contributor.author Kaplun Dmitriy Ilich
dc.contributor.author Markelova Maria Ivanovna
dc.contributor.author Pyko Nikita Sergeevich
dc.contributor.author Pyko Svetlana Anatolevna
dc.contributor.author Romanova Valeriia Aleksandrovna
dc.contributor.author Safonova Anastasiya Nikolaevna
dc.contributor.author Sinica Aleksandr Mikhaylovich
dc.contributor.author Usmanov Bulat Mansurovich
dc.contributor.author Kayumov Ayrat Rashitovich
dc.date.accessioned 2023-09-12T06:59:29Z
dc.date.available 2023-09-12T06:59:29Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.identifier.citation The impact of Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea L.) colony on soil biogeochemistry and vegetation: a natural long-term in situ experiment in a planted pine forest / M.I. Bogachev [et al.] // Front. Environ. Sci. - 2023. - Vol.11. - Art. 1197657.
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/176851
dc.description.abstract Increased anthropogenic pressure including intensification of agricultural activities leads to long-term decline of natural biotopes, with planted forests often considered as promising compensatory response, although reduced biodiversity and ecosystem stability represent their common drawbacks. Here we present a complex investigation of the impact of a large Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea L.) colony on soil biogeochemistry and vegetation in a planted Scots pine forest representing a natural in situ experiment on an engineered ecosystem. After settling around 2006, the colony expanded for 15 years, leading to the intensive deposition of nutrients with feces, food remains and feather thereby considerably altering the local soil biogeochemistry. Thus, lower pH levels around 4.5, 10- and 2-fold higher concentrations of phosphorous and nitrogen, as well as 1.2-fold discrepancies in K, Li, Mn, Zn and Co., respectively, compared to the surrounding control forest area could be observed. Unaltered total organic carbon (Corg) suggests repressed vegetation, as also reflected in the vegetation indices obtained by remote sensing. Moreover, reduced soil microbial diversity with considerable alternations in the relative abundance of Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Acidobacteriota, Actinobacteriota, Verrucomicrobiota, Gemmatimonadota, Chujaibacter, Rhodanobacter, and Bacillus has been detected. The above alterations to the ecosystem also affected climate stress resilience of the trees indicated by their limited recovery from the major 2010 drought stress, in marked contrast to the surrounding forest (p = 3∙10-5). The complex interplay between geographical, geochemical, microbiological and dendrological characteristics, as well as their manifestation in the vegetation indices is explicitly reflected in the Bayesian network model. Using the Bayesian inference approach, we have confirmed the predictability of biodiversity patterns and trees growth dynamics given the concentrations of keynote soil biogeochemical alternations with correlations R ) 0.8 between observations and predictions, indicating the capability of risk assessment that could be further employed for an informed forest management.
dc.language.iso en
dc.relation.ispartofseries FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
dc.rights открытый доступ
dc.subject Grey Heron
dc.subject biogeochemistry
dc.subject soil metagenome
dc.subject tree ring width
dc.subject vegetation indices
dc.title The impact of Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea L.) colony on soil biogeochemistry and vegetation: a natural long-term in situ experiment in a planted pine forest
dc.type Article
dc.contributor.org Институт экологии и природопользования
dc.description.pages 1-16
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 11
dc.pub-id 285511
dc.identifier.doi 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1197657


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