Modulation of Litter Decomposition by the Soil Microbial Food Web Under Influence of Land Use Change.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial communities modulate soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics by catalyzing litter decomposition. However, our understanding of how litter-derived carbon (C) flows through the microbial portion of the soil food web is far from comprehensive. This information is necessary to facilitate reliable predictions of soil C cycling and sequestration in response to a changing environment such as land use change in the form of agricultural abandonment. To examine the flow of litter-derived C through the soil microbial food web and it's response to land use change, we carried out an incubation experiment with soils from six fields; three recently abandoned and three long term abandoned fields. In these soils, the fate of ¹³C-labeled plant litter was followed by analyzing phospholip

SUBMITTER: Heijboer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6275175 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature