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Title: Characterizing changes in soil bacterial community structure in response to short-term warming

Abstract

High altitude alpine meadows are experiencing considerably greater than average increases in soil surface temperature, potentially as a result of ongoing climate change. The effects of warming on plant productivity and soil edaphic variables have been established previously, but the influence of warming on soil microbial community structure has not been well characterized. Here, the impact of 15 months of soil warming (both + 1 and + 2 degrees C) on bacterial community structure was examined in a field experiment on a Tibetan plateau alpine meadow using bar-coded pyrosequencing. Warming significantly changed (P < 0.05) the structure of the soil bacterial community, but the alpha diversity was not dramatically affected. Changes in the abundance of the Actinobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria were found to contribute the most to differences between ambient (AT) and artificially warmed conditions. A variance partitioning analysis (VPA) showed that warming directly explained 7.15% variation in bacterial community structure, while warming-induced changes in soil edaphic and plant phenotypic properties indirectly accounted for 28.3% and 20.6% of the community variance, respectively. Interestingly, certain taxa showed an inconsistent response to the two warming treatments, for example Deltaproteobacteria showed a decreased relative abundance at + 1 degrees C, but a return tomore » AT control relative abundance at + 2 degrees C. This suggests complex microbial dynamics that could result from conditional dependencies between bacterial taxa.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [2]
  1. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing China; School of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo China
  2. State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing China
  3. Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou China
  4. Argonne National Laboratory Biosciences Division, Argonne IL USA; Graduate Program in Biophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago IL USA
  5. Argonne National Laboratory Biosciences Division, Argonne IL USA; Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago IL USA
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
OSTI Identifier:
1394039
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 89; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-6496
Publisher:
Federation of European Microbiology Societies
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Tibetan plateau; bacterial community; soil warming

Citation Formats

Xiong, Jinbo, Sun, Huaibo, Peng, Fei, Zhang, Huayong, Xue, Xian, Gibbons, Sean M., Gilbert, Jack A., and Chu, Haiyan. Characterizing changes in soil bacterial community structure in response to short-term warming. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1111/1574-6941.12289.
Xiong, Jinbo, Sun, Huaibo, Peng, Fei, Zhang, Huayong, Xue, Xian, Gibbons, Sean M., Gilbert, Jack A., & Chu, Haiyan. Characterizing changes in soil bacterial community structure in response to short-term warming. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12289
Xiong, Jinbo, Sun, Huaibo, Peng, Fei, Zhang, Huayong, Xue, Xian, Gibbons, Sean M., Gilbert, Jack A., and Chu, Haiyan. 2014. "Characterizing changes in soil bacterial community structure in response to short-term warming". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12289.
@article{osti_1394039,
title = {Characterizing changes in soil bacterial community structure in response to short-term warming},
author = {Xiong, Jinbo and Sun, Huaibo and Peng, Fei and Zhang, Huayong and Xue, Xian and Gibbons, Sean M. and Gilbert, Jack A. and Chu, Haiyan},
abstractNote = {High altitude alpine meadows are experiencing considerably greater than average increases in soil surface temperature, potentially as a result of ongoing climate change. The effects of warming on plant productivity and soil edaphic variables have been established previously, but the influence of warming on soil microbial community structure has not been well characterized. Here, the impact of 15 months of soil warming (both + 1 and + 2 degrees C) on bacterial community structure was examined in a field experiment on a Tibetan plateau alpine meadow using bar-coded pyrosequencing. Warming significantly changed (P < 0.05) the structure of the soil bacterial community, but the alpha diversity was not dramatically affected. Changes in the abundance of the Actinobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria were found to contribute the most to differences between ambient (AT) and artificially warmed conditions. A variance partitioning analysis (VPA) showed that warming directly explained 7.15% variation in bacterial community structure, while warming-induced changes in soil edaphic and plant phenotypic properties indirectly accounted for 28.3% and 20.6% of the community variance, respectively. Interestingly, certain taxa showed an inconsistent response to the two warming treatments, for example Deltaproteobacteria showed a decreased relative abundance at + 1 degrees C, but a return to AT control relative abundance at + 2 degrees C. This suggests complex microbial dynamics that could result from conditional dependencies between bacterial taxa.},
doi = {10.1111/1574-6941.12289},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1394039}, journal = {FEMS Microbiology Ecology},
issn = {0168-6496},
number = 2,
volume = 89,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}