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Journal Article
Soil microbial character response to plant community variation after grazing prohibition for 10 years in a Qinghai-Tibetan alpine meadow
2021
Overview
Background and aims
In addition to improving vegetation, grazing prohibition changes the soil micro-environment. Soil enzymes and microbes, which are the chief constituents responsible for mediation of most of the processes involved in energy and material fluxes of ecosystems, are very sensitive to changing environments. This study aimed to illustrate the effects of grazing prohibition on vegetation and soil enzyme characteristics, and to elucidate the responses of soil fungal and bacterial function and community composition on grazing prohibition for 10 years in a Qinghai-Tibetan alpine meadow.
Methods
About 6 hm
2
lightly degraded alpine meadows were selected in 2006, and half of which were fenced to completely prohibit grazing throughout the year, while the other half were subjected to free yak grazing. Four different plots in each site were selected as experimental fields in 2016. Soil microbial characteristics were analyzed by high-throughput gene detection.
Results
Grazing prohibition had no significant impact on vegetable Shannon-Wiener diversities or below-ground biomass, but dramatically changed the above-ground biomass and soil phosphatase activity. In the Qinghai-Tibetan alpine meadow, bacteria are dominant members of the soil microbial community. Grazing prohibition significantly increased the fungal species diversity and the abundance of pathotrophs, saprotrophs and symbiotrophs, while it had no effect on soil bacterial diversity and functional structure. A total of 100.0% of the variations in fungi and bacteria could be explained by plant variables. The reciprocal action among plant biomass (i.e. above-ground biomass, below-ground biomass), plant diversities (i.e. Shannon-wiener diversity, species number, coverage) and species important value have a great impact on soil microbial composition variations.
Conclusion
Long-term grazing prohibition restrained the phosphatase activity and increased the abundance of pathotrophic fungi but had no effect on the abundance of functional bacteria, which participate in the soil biogeochemistry cycling process. Grazing prohibition for 10 years did not improve the community structure of functional microorganisms related to carbon, nitrogen and sulfur, and appropriate grazing could maintain the sustainable utilization of grassland resources.
Publisher
Springer Science + Business Media,Springer International Publishing,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
