Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
DOI | 10.1007/s40333-014-0035-3 |
Responses of microbial activities and soil physical-chemical properties to the successional process of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang | |
Zhang, BingChang; Zhou, XiaoBing; Zhang, YuanMing![]() | |
通讯作者 | Zhang, YuanMing |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF ARID LAND
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ISSN | 1674-6767 |
EISSN | 2194-7783 |
出版年 | 2015 |
卷号 | 7期号:1页码:101-109 |
英文摘要 | Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are capable of modifying nutrient availability to favor the establishment of biogeochemical cycles. Microbial activities serve as critical roles for both carbon and nutrient transformation in BSCs. However, little is known about microbial activities and physical-chemical properties of BSCs in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang, China. In the present research, a sampling line with 1-m wide and 20-m long was set up in each of five typical interdune areas selected randomly in the Gurbantunggut Desert. Within each sampling line, samples of bare sand sheet, algal crusts, lichen crusts and moss crusts were randomly collected at the depth of 0-2 cm. Variations of microalgal biomass, microbial biomass, enzyme activities and soil physical-chemical properties in different succession of BSCs were analyzed. The relationships between microalgal biomass, microbial biomass, enzymatic activities and soil physical-chemical properties were explored by stepwise regression. Our results indicate that microalgal biomass, microbial biomass and most of enzyme activities increased as the BSCs developed and their highest values occurred in lichen or moss crusts. Except for total K, the contents of most soil nutrients (organic C, total N, total P, available N, available P and available K) were the lowest in the bare sand sheet and significantly increased with the BSCs development, reaching their highest values in moss crusts. However, pH values significantly decreased as the BSCs developed. Significant and positive correlations were observed between chlorophyll a and microbial biomass C. Total P and N were positively associated with chlorophyll a and microbial biomass C, whereas there was a significant and negative correlation between microbial biomass and available P. The growth of cyanobacteria and microorganism contributed C and N in the soil, which offered substrates for enzyme activities thus increasing enzyme activities. Probably, improvement in enzyme activities increased soil fertility and promoted the growth of cyanobacteria, eukaryotic algae and heterotrophic microorganism, with the accelerating succession of BSCs. The present research found that microalgal-microbial biomass and enzyme activities played important roles on the contents of nutrients in the successional stages of BSCs and helped us to understand developmental mechanism in the succession of BSCs. |
英文关键词 | chlorophyll a microbial biomass C soil enzyme physical-chemical properties biological soil crusts |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Peoples R China |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000345082600011 |
WOS关键词 | ENZYME-ACTIVITIES ; NITROGEN-FIXATION ; EXTRACELLULAR ENZYMES ; ENVIRONMENTAL-FACTORS ; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS ; COLORADO PLATEAU ; TENGGER-DESERT ; INNER-MONGOLIA ; BIOMASS ; CARBON |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
来源机构 | 中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所 |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/188370 |
作者单位 | Chinese Acad Sci, Xinjiang Inst Ecol & Geog, Key Lab Biogeog & Bioresources Arid Land, Urumqi 830011, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, BingChang,Zhou, XiaoBing,Zhang, YuanMing. Responses of microbial activities and soil physical-chemical properties to the successional process of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang[J]. 中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所,2015,7(1):101-109. |
APA | Zhang, BingChang,Zhou, XiaoBing,&Zhang, YuanMing.(2015).Responses of microbial activities and soil physical-chemical properties to the successional process of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang.JOURNAL OF ARID LAND,7(1),101-109. |
MLA | Zhang, BingChang,et al."Responses of microbial activities and soil physical-chemical properties to the successional process of biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang".JOURNAL OF ARID LAND 7.1(2015):101-109. |
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