Microscale heterogeneity of the soil nitrogen cycling microbial functional structure and potential metabolism

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Han, Shun

作者： Han, Shun;Hao, Xiuli;Chen, Wenli;Huang, Qiaoyun;Luo, Xuesong;Hao, Xiuli;Zeng, Luyang;Wang, Li;Huang, Qiaoyun;Ouyang, Yang;Van Nostrand, Joy D.;Zhou, Jizhong;Wen, Shilin;Wang, Boren

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期刊名称：ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY （ 影响因子：5.491； 五年影响因子：6.438 ）

ISSN： 1462-2912

年卷期： 2021 年 23 卷 2 期

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摘要： Soil aggregates, with complex spatial and nutritional heterogeneity, are clearly important for regulating microbial community ecology and biogeochemistry in soils. However, how the taxonomic composition and functional attributes of N-cycling-microbes within different soil particle-size fractions under a long-term fertilization treatment remains largely unknown. Here, we examined the composition and metabolic potential for urease activity, nitrification, N2O production and reduction of the microbial communities attached to different sized soil particles (2000-250, 250-53 and <53 mu m) using a functional gene microarray (GeoChip) and functional assays. We found that urease activity and nitrification were higher in <53 mu m fractions, whereas N2O production and reduction rates were greater in 2000-250 and 250-53 mu m across different fertilizer regimes. The abundance of key N-cycling genes involved in anammox, ammonification, assimilatory and dissimilatory N reduction, denitrification, nitrification and N-2-fixation detected by GeoChip increased as soil aggregate size decreased; and the particular key genes abundance (e.g., ureC, amoA, narG, nirS/K) and their corresponding activity were uncoupled. Aggregate fraction exerted significant impacts on N-cycling microbial taxonomic composition, which was significantly shaped by soil nutrition. Taken together, these findings indicate the important roles of soil aggregates in differentiating N-cycling metabolic potential and taxonomic composition, and provide empirical evidence that nitrogen metabolism potential and community are uncoupled due to aggregate heterogeneity.

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