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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 ISSN 1354-1013.

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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
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Q Science > QK Botany
S Agriculture > SD Forestry
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > 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
Dates:
DateEvent
5 March 2021Published
15 December 2020Available
26 October 2020Accepted
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 (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 6 January 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 7 January 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
2013-67011-21095U.S. Department of Agriculturehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000199
DE-AC02-05CH11231U.S. Department of Energyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000015
DE-SC0014443U.S. Department of Energyhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000015
2018-08037U.S. Department of Agriculturehttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000199
AGS-1352375National Science Foundationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008982
DE-AC05-00OR22725Oak Ridge National Laboratoryhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100006228
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