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Title: Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. II. Change in Microbial Function Impacts Carbon Composition

Abstract

Climate model projections for tropical regions show clear perturbation of precipitation patterns leading to increased frequency and severity of drought in some regions. Previous work has shown declining soil moisture to be a strong driver of changes in microbial trait distribution, however, the feedback of any shift in functional potential on ecosystem properties related to carbon cycling are poorly understood. Here we show that drought-induced changes in microbial functional diversity and activity shape, and are in turn shaped by, the composition of dissolved and soil-associated carbon. We also demonstrate that a shift in microbial functional traits that favor the production of hygroscopic compounds alter the efflux of carbon dioxide following soil rewetting. Under drought the composition of the dissolved organic carbon pool changed in a manner consistent with a microbial metabolic response. We hypothesize that this microbial ecophysiological response to changing soil moisture elevates the intracellular carbon demand stimulating extracellular enzyme production, that prompts the observed decline in more complex carbon compounds (e.g., cellulose and lignin). Furthermore, a metabolic response to drought appeared to condition (biologically and physically) the soil, notably through the production of polysaccharides, particularly in experimental plots that had been pre-exposed to a short-term drought. This hystereticmore » response, in addition to an observed drought-related decline in phosphorus concentration, may have been responsible for a comparatively modest CO 2 efflux following wet-up in drought plots relative to control plots.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [4];  [3];  [5]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Climate and Ecosystem Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences
  2. US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Rio Piedras, PR (United States); Puerto Rican Foundation of Conservation, San Juan, PR (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Environmental Science
  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Climate and Ecosystem Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Environmental Science
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1379159
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Frontiers in Microbiology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: MAR; Journal ID: ISSN 1664-302X
Publisher:
Frontiers Research Foundation
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; tropical forest; drought; microbial functions; carbon dioxide; soil carbon

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Bouskill, Nicholas J., Wood, Tana E., Baran, Richard, Hao, Zhao, Ye, Zaw, Bowen, Ben P., Lim, Hsiao Chien, Nico, Peter S., Holman, Hoi-Ying, Gilbert, Benjamin, Silver, Whendee L., Northen, Trent R., and Brodie, Eoin L. Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. II. Change in Microbial Function Impacts Carbon Composition. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00323.
Bouskill, Nicholas J., Wood, Tana E., Baran, Richard, Hao, Zhao, Ye, Zaw, Bowen, Ben P., Lim, Hsiao Chien, Nico, Peter S., Holman, Hoi-Ying, Gilbert, Benjamin, Silver, Whendee L., Northen, Trent R., & Brodie, Eoin L. Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. II. Change in Microbial Function Impacts Carbon Composition. United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00323
Bouskill, Nicholas J., Wood, Tana E., Baran, Richard, Hao, Zhao, Ye, Zaw, Bowen, Ben P., Lim, Hsiao Chien, Nico, Peter S., Holman, Hoi-Ying, Gilbert, Benjamin, Silver, Whendee L., Northen, Trent R., and Brodie, Eoin L. Tue . "Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. II. Change in Microbial Function Impacts Carbon Composition". United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00323. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1379159.
@article{osti_1379159,
title = {Belowground Response to Drought in a Tropical Forest Soil. II. Change in Microbial Function Impacts Carbon Composition},
author = {Bouskill, Nicholas J. and Wood, Tana E. and Baran, Richard and Hao, Zhao and Ye, Zaw and Bowen, Ben P. and Lim, Hsiao Chien and Nico, Peter S. and Holman, Hoi-Ying and Gilbert, Benjamin and Silver, Whendee L. and Northen, Trent R. and Brodie, Eoin L.},
abstractNote = {Climate model projections for tropical regions show clear perturbation of precipitation patterns leading to increased frequency and severity of drought in some regions. Previous work has shown declining soil moisture to be a strong driver of changes in microbial trait distribution, however, the feedback of any shift in functional potential on ecosystem properties related to carbon cycling are poorly understood. Here we show that drought-induced changes in microbial functional diversity and activity shape, and are in turn shaped by, the composition of dissolved and soil-associated carbon. We also demonstrate that a shift in microbial functional traits that favor the production of hygroscopic compounds alter the efflux of carbon dioxide following soil rewetting. Under drought the composition of the dissolved organic carbon pool changed in a manner consistent with a microbial metabolic response. We hypothesize that this microbial ecophysiological response to changing soil moisture elevates the intracellular carbon demand stimulating extracellular enzyme production, that prompts the observed decline in more complex carbon compounds (e.g., cellulose and lignin). Furthermore, a metabolic response to drought appeared to condition (biologically and physically) the soil, notably through the production of polysaccharides, particularly in experimental plots that had been pre-exposed to a short-term drought. This hysteretic response, in addition to an observed drought-related decline in phosphorus concentration, may have been responsible for a comparatively modest CO 2 efflux following wet-up in drought plots relative to control plots.},
doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2016.00323},
journal = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
number = MAR,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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