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Compounded Disturbance Chronology Modulates the Resilience of Soil Microbial Communities and N-Cycle Related Functions

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Calderón, Kadiya, Philippot, Laurent, Bizouard, Florian, Breuil, Marie-Christine, Bru, David, Spor, Aymé·2018·Frontiers in Microbiology
DOI 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02721PMC PMC6232425
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There is a growing interest of overcoming the uncertainty related to the cumulative impacts of multiple disturbances of different nature in all ecosystems. With global change leading to acute environmental disturbances, recent studies demonstrated a significant increase in the possible number of interactions between disturbances that can generate complex, non-additive effects on ecosystems functioning. However, how the chronology of disturbances can affect ecosystems functioning is unknown even though there is increasing evidence that community assembly history dictates ecosystems functioning. Here, we experimentally examined the importance of the disturbances chronology in modulating the resilience of soil microbial communities and N-cycle related functions. We studied the impact of 3-way combinations of global change related disturbances on total bacterial diversity and composition, on the abundance of N-cycle related guilds and on N-cycle related activities in soil microcosms. The model pulse disturbances, i.e., short-term ceasing disturbances studied were heat, freeze-thaw and anaerobic cycles. We determined that repeated disturbances of the same nature can either lead to the resilience or to shifts in N-cycle related functions concomitant with diversity loss. When considering disturbances of different nature, we demonstrated that the chronology of compounded disturbances impacting an ecosystem determines the aggregated impact on ecosystem properties and functions. Thus, after 3 weeks the impact of the 'anoxia/heat/freeze-thaw' sequence was almost two times stronger than that of the 'heat/anoxia/freeze-thaw' sequence. Finally, we showed that about 29% of the observed variance in ecosystem aggregated impact caused by series of disturbances could be attributed to changes in the microbial community composition measured by weighted UniFrac distances. This indicates that surveying changes in bacterial community composition can help predict the strength of the impact of compounded disturbances on N-related functions and properties.

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  • Most research on global environmental change concentrates on one or two variables, rendering the impacts of compounded perturbations on the composition of microbial functions ambiguous and contentious.

    “Most research on global environmental change concentrates on one or two variables, rendering the impacts of compounded perturbations on the composition of microbial functions ambiguous and contentious [51].”

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    The Introduction (page unavailable) says most ecosystem-stability studies examined a single disturbance and that the effects of sequential disturbances on ecosystem functioning remain unclear. It does not say that the effects on the composition of microbial functions are contentious; its discussion of controversy concerns functional redundancy, a different question. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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Calderón, K., Philippot, L., Bizouard, F., Breuil, M.-C., Bru, D., & Spor, A.
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Université de Bourgogne (FR)
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Frontiers in Microbiology
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Published
2018-11-06
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9
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2721-2721
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1664-302X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3389/fmicb.2018.02721
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PMC6232425
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  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Keywords
soil microbial communities, microbial resilience, bacterial diversity, bacterial community composition, anoxia, pulse disturbances, global change, soil microcosms

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