Quantitative response relationships between net nitrogen transformation rates and nitrogen functional genes during artificial vegetation restoration following agricultural abandonment

A comprehensive understanding of how microbial associated with nitrogen (N) cycling respond to artificial vegetation restoration is still lacking, particularly in arid to semi-arid degraded ecosystems. We compared soil net N mineralization rates and the abundance of bacteria, archaea, and eleven N microbial genes on the northern Loess Plateau of China during the process of artificial vegetation restoration. The quantitative relationships between net N mineralization rates and N microbial genes were determined. We observed a significant difference of net transformation rates of NH4+-N (Ra), NO3−-N (Rd), and total mineralization (Rm), which rapidly decreased in 10-year soils and steadily increased in the 10–30-year soils. Different N functional microbial groups responded to artificial vegetation restoration distinctly and differentially, especially for denitrifying bacteria. Stepwise regression analysis suggested that Ra was collectively controlled by AOA-amoA and Archaea; Rd was jointly governed by narG, napA, nxrA, and bacreria; and Rm was jointly controlled by napA, narG, nirK, nirS, norB, nosZ, and nxrA.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Scientific Reports

• Publication date

  2017-08-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-08016-8PMID 28798309PMCID 5552692
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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