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Nitrogen fertilization weakens the linkage between soil carbon and microbial diversity: A global meta‐analysis
Abstract
Soil microbes make up a significant portion of the genetic diversity and play a critical role in belowground carbon (C) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Soil microbial diversity and organic C are often tightly coupled in C cycling processes; however, this coupling can be weakened or broken by rapid global change. A global meta‐analysis was performed with 1148 paired comparisons extracted from 229 articles published between January 1998 and December 2021 to determine how nitrogen (N) fertilization affects the relationship between soil C content and microbial diversity in terrestrial ecosystems. We found that N fertilization decreased soil bacterial (−11%) and fungal diversity (−17%), but increased soil organic C (SOC) (+19%), microbial biomass C (MBC) (+17%), and dissolved organic C (DOC) (+25%) across different ecosystems. Organic N (urea) fertilization had a greater effect on SOC, MBC, DOC, and bacterial and fungal diversity than inorganic N fertilization. Most importantly, soil microbial diversity decreased with increasing SOC, MBC, and DOC, and the absolute values of the correlation coefficients decreased with increasing N fertilization rate and duration, suggesting that N fertilization weakened the linkage between soil C and microbial diversity. The weakened linkage might negatively impact essential ecosystem services under high rates of N fertilization; this understanding is important for mitigating the negative impact of global N enrichment on soil C cycling.
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- Authors
- Yang, Y., Chen, X., Liu, L., Li, T., Dou, Y., Qiao, J., Wang, Y., An, S., & Chang, S. X.
- Venue
- Global Change Biology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2022-08-16
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 6446-6461
- ISSN
- 1354-1013 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2486
- OpenAlex
- W4288714716
- Cited by
- 279
- References
- 108
- FWCI
- 29.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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