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Data from: Bouncing Back: plant-associated soil microbes respond rapidly to prairie establishment
Abstract
It is well established that soil microbial communities change in response to altered land use and land cover, but less is known about the timing of these changes. Understanding temporal patterns in recovering microbial communities is an important part of improving how we assess and manage reconstructed ecosystems. We assessed patterns of community-level microbial diversity and abundance in corn and prairie plots 2 to 4 years after establishment in agricultural fields, using phospholipid fatty acid biomarkers. Principal components analysis of the lipid biomarkers revealed differing composition between corn and prairie soil microbial communities. Despite no changes to the biomass of Gram-positive bacteria and actinomycetes, total biomass, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi biomass, and Gram-negative bacteria biomass were significantly higher in restored prairie plots, approaching levels found in long-established prairies. These results indicate that plant-associated soil microbes in agricultural soils can shift in less than 2 years after establishment of perennial grasslands.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); OSTI
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC02-07ER64494
- Research Org.:
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Madison, WI (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1873862
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rk384
Citation Formats
Jackson, Randall D., Herzberger, Anna J., and Duncan, David S. Data from: Bouncing Back: plant-associated soil microbes respond rapidly to prairie establishment. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.5061/dryad.rk384.
Jackson, Randall D., Herzberger, Anna J., & Duncan, David S. Data from: Bouncing Back: plant-associated soil microbes respond rapidly to prairie establishment. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rk384
Jackson, Randall D., Herzberger, Anna J., and Duncan, David S. 2015.
"Data from: Bouncing Back: plant-associated soil microbes respond rapidly to prairie establishment". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rk384. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1873862. Pub date:Fri Jan 23 04:00:00 UTC 2015
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title = {Data from: Bouncing Back: plant-associated soil microbes respond rapidly to prairie establishment},
author = {Jackson, Randall D. and Herzberger, Anna J. and Duncan, David S.},
abstractNote = {It is well established that soil microbial communities change in response to altered land use and land cover, but less is known about the timing of these changes. Understanding temporal patterns in recovering microbial communities is an important part of improving how we assess and manage reconstructed ecosystems. We assessed patterns of community-level microbial diversity and abundance in corn and prairie plots 2 to 4 years after establishment in agricultural fields, using phospholipid fatty acid biomarkers. Principal components analysis of the lipid biomarkers revealed differing composition between corn and prairie soil microbial communities. Despite no changes to the biomass of Gram-positive bacteria and actinomycetes, total biomass, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi biomass, and Gram-negative bacteria biomass were significantly higher in restored prairie plots, approaching levels found in long-established prairies. These results indicate that plant-associated soil microbes in agricultural soils can shift in less than 2 years after establishment of perennial grasslands.},
doi = {10.5061/dryad.rk384},
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year = {Fri Jan 23 04:00:00 UTC 2015},
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