Soil biological health assessment based on nematode communities under maize and peanut intercropping

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第一作者： Liang, Siwei

作者： Liang, Siwei;Feng, Chen;Li, Na;Sun, Zhanxiang;Li, Yingbin;Zhang, Xiaoke;Liang, Wenju

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关键词： Exploratory factor analysis; Intercropping; Nematode community; Soil health assessment

期刊名称：ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES （ 影响因子：3.9； 五年影响因子：5.4 ）

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年卷期： 2024 年 13 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： BackgroundCereal/legume intercropping can enhance crop productivity and improve soil health in dryland farming. However, little is known about soil biological health under maize/peanut intercropping. The aim of this study was to assess soil biological health based on nematode communities in a maize/peanut intercropping system.MethodsWe conducted a field experiment with different planting patterns, including monoculture maize (M), monoculture peanut (P), and maize intercropped with peanut (IM, intercropped maize; IP, intercropped peanut) to determine the influence on soil biological health. We measured soil physicochemical properties and nematode communities, and employed exploratory factor analysis combined with cumulative normal distribution curve scoring to identify potential soil biological health traits.ResultsThe intercropped maize gave the highest plant parasitic nematode abundance, trophic diversity index, evenness index, and structure index. The monoculture peanut gave the highest enrichment index and least plant parasitic nematode abundance, trophic diversity index, Shannon diversity index, evenness index, structure index, and channel index. We identified four soil biological health traits, including basic nutrients and biodiversity, food web complexity, slow energy channel, and fast energy channel, mainly represented by soil ammonium nitrogen and Shannon diversity index, structural index and omnivore-predator nematode abundance, fungivorous nematode abundance and plant parasitic nematode abundance, microbial biomass carbon and bacterivorous nematode abundance, respectively. The intercropping systems improved the comprehensive score of soil biological health, especially maize intercropping soil. Intercropping maize and intercropping peanut significantly improved oil biological health traits representing the food web complexity compared with the corresponding monoculture soils.ConclusionsOur results indicate that soil nematode and physicochemical indicators reflect different soil biological health traits. Among those traits, the improvement of basic nutrients and biodiversity and the complexity of the food web were the main reasons for improving soil biological health through the intercropping system.

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