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Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests
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Mushinski, Ryan , Payne, Zachary C., Raff, Jonathan D., Craig, Matthew E., Pusede, Sally E, Rusch, Douglas B., White, Jeffrey R. and Phillips, Richard P. (2021) Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests. Global Change Biology, 27 (5). pp. 1068-1082. doi:10.1111/gcb.15439
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15439
Abstract
Volatile nitrogen oxides (N2O, NO, NO2, HONO, …) can negatively impact climate, air quality, and human health. Using soils collected from temperate forests across the eastern United States, we show microbial communities involved in nitrogen (N) cycling are structured, in large part, by the composition of overstory trees, leading to predictable N‐cycling syndromes, with consequences for emissions of volatile nitrogen oxides to air. Trees associating with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi promote soil microbial communities with higher N‐cycle potential and activity, relative to microbial communities in soils dominated by trees associating with ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi. Metagenomic analysis and gene expression studies reveal a 5 and 3.5 times greater estimated N‐cycle gene and transcript copy numbers, respectively, in AM relative to ECM soil. Furthermore, we observe a 60% linear decrease in volatile reactive nitrogen gas flux (NOy ≡ NO, NO2, HONO) as ECM tree abundance increases. Compared to oxic conditions, gas flux potential of N2O and NO increase significantly under anoxic conditions for AM soil (30‐ and 120‐fold increase), but not ECM soil—likely owing to small concentrations of available substrate () in ECM soil. Linear mixed effects modeling shows that ECM tree abundance, microbial process rates, and geographic location are primarily responsible for variation in peak potential NOy flux. Given that nearly all tree species associate with either AM or ECM fungi, our results indicate that the consequences of tree species shifts associated with global change may have predictable consequences for soil N cycling.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QD Chemistry Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology Q Science > QK Botany S Agriculture > SD Forestry |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Forest soils, Mycorrhizas, Nitrogen cycle, Nitrogen oxides | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Global Change Biology | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1354-1013 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 5 March 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 January 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 27 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Number: | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1068-1082 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/gcb.15439 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | |||||||||||||||||||||
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