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Appraisal of N-15 enrichment and N-15 natural abundance methods for estimating N-2 fixation by understorey Acacia leiocalyx and A. disparimma in a native forest of subtropical Australia

文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Bai, Shahla Hosseini 1 ; Sun, Fangfang 2 ; Xu, Zhihong 1 ; Blumfield, Timothy J. 1 ; Chen, Chengrong 3 ; Wild, Clyd 1 ;

作者机构： 1.Griffith Univ, Environm Futures Ctr, Sch Biomol & Phys Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia

2.Guangdong Acad Agr Sci, Res Ctr Qual Safety & Stand Agr Prod, Guangzhou 510640, Guangdong, Peoples R China

3.Griffith Univ, Environm Futures Ctr, Sch Environm, Brisbane, Qld 4111, Australia

4.Griffith Univ, Environm Futures Ctr, Sch Environm, Gold Coast, Qld 9726, Australia

关键词： N-15 enrichment method;N-15 natural abundance method;Acacia leiocalyx, A;disparimma;N-2 fixation

期刊名称：JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS （ 影响因子：3.308； 五年影响因子：3.586 ）

ISSN： 1439-0108

年卷期： 2012 年 12 卷 5 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： It is anticipated that global climate change will increase the frequency of wildfires in native forests of eastern Australia. Understorey legumes such as Acacia species play an important role in maintaining ecosystem nitrogen (N) balance through biological N fixation (BNF). This is particularly important in Australian native forests with soils of low nutrient status and frequent disturbance of the nutrient cycles by fires. This study aimed to examine N-15 enrichment and N-15 natural abundance techniques in terms of their utilisation for evaluation of N-2 fixation of understorey acacias and determine the relationship between species ecophysiological traits and N-2 fixation. A trial was established at sites 1 and 2 located at Toohey Forest, Queensland, Australia, a eucalypt-dominated native forest, to examine the determination of BNF using N-15 enrichment and N-15 natural abundance methods. Toohey Forest is an urban forest and subjected to frequent fuel reduction burns to protect the adjacent properties. Plant physiological status was measured to determine the relationship between physiological and N-2 fixation activities. Both N-15 enrichment and N-15 natural abundance techniques may be used to estimate N-2 fixation of acacia tree species. The estimation of BNF using N-15 enrichment was higher than those of the N-15 natural abundance method. A grass reference plant, Themeda triandra, as well as tree reference plants provided an appropriate delta N-15 signal. Potential B values for Acacia spp. between -0.3aEuro degrees and 1.0aEuro degrees provided an acceptable BNF estimation. This suburban forest is located nearby a busy highway leading to N deposition over time with consequent negative delta N-15 signal. This N deposition may explain the separation between the delta N-15 signal of the acacias and that of the reference plants which led to the successful use of the N-15 natural abundance technique. Acacia leiocalyx demonstrated greater N-2 fixation as well as photosynthesis and instantaneous water use efficiency than Acacia disparimma. However, no strong relationship between plant photosynthesis and N-2 fixation was observed in this study. A high within-treatment variation may have masked the relationships between plant BNF activities and photosynthesis The N-15 natural abundance technique is preferred to be used for future studies as it is simple and inexpensive compared with N-15 enrichment method. The dependence of both species on BNF at site 2, where fuel reduction burning had not taken place for 8 years, suggests that the frequent burning impoverished the soil, and this has wider implications as higher fire frequencies are to be expected in other Australian ecosystems as a result of global climate change.

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