| Literature DB >> 35784037 |
Weixing Liu1,2, Xian Yang3,4, Lin Jiang4, Lulu Guo1,2, Yaru Chen1,2, Sen Yang1,2, Lingli Liu1,2.
Abstract
Nitrogen (N) deposition poses a serious threat to terrestrial biodiversity and alters plant and soil microbial community composition. Species turnover and nestedness reflect the underlying mechanisms of variations in community composition. However, it remains unclear how species turnover and nestedness contribute to different responses of taxonomic groups (plants and soil microbes) to N enrichment. Here, based on a 13-year consecutive multi-level N addition experiment in a semiarid steppe, we partitioned community β-diversity into species turnover and nestedness components and explored how and why plant and microbial communities reorganize via these two processes following N enrichment. We found that plant, soil bacterial, and fungal β-diversity increased, but their two components showed different patterns with increasing N input. Plant β-diversity was mainly driven by species turnover under lower N input but by nestedness under higher N input, which may be due to a reduction in forb species, with low tolerance to soil Mn2+, with increasing N input. However, turnover was the main contributor to differences in soil bacterial and fungal communities with increasing N input, indicating the phenomenon of microbial taxa replacement. The turnover of bacteria increased greatly whereas that of fungi remained within a narrow range with increasing N input. We further found that the increased soil Mn2+ concentration was the best predictor for increasing nestedness of plant communities under higher N input, whereas increasing N availability and acidification together contributed to the turnover of bacterial communities. However, environmental factors could explain neither fungal turnover nor nestedness. Our findings reflect two different pathways of community changes in plants, soil bacteria, and fungi, as well as their distinct community assembly in response to N enrichment. Disentangling the turnover and nestedness of plant and microbial β-diversity would have important implications for understanding plant-soil microbe interactions and seeking conservation strategies for maintaining regional diversity.Entities:
Keywords: N deposition; community assembly; community dissimilarity; nestedness; partitioning β‐diversity; replacement; turnover
Year: 2022 PMID: 35784037 PMCID: PMC9205676 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ecol Evol ISSN: 2045-7758 Impact factor: 3.167
FIGURE 1Two‐dimensional nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination based on Sørensen dissimilarly displaying differences in community composition of plants (a), soil bacteria (b), and fungi (c) in response to N input
FIGURE 2The relationships between total beta‐diversity measured as Sørensen dissimilarity and N input level. The Sørensen dissimilarity indices were calculated between each N input treatment and the ambient. The values of x‐axis mean logarithm of N input level to base 2. Significant linear regression lines are shown (p < .05)
FIGURE 3Species turnover and nestedness components of community dissimilarity of plants (a), soil bacteria (b), and fungi (c) between each N input treatment and the ambient treatment, respectively. Each bar represents the mean (± SE, n = 4) values for each N input treatment
FIGURE 4Effects of environmental variables on plant nestedness (a, b), bacterial (c, d), and fungal (e, f) turnover. The average parameter estimate (standardized regression coefficients) of the model predictors and their associated 95% confidence intervals are shown. The red and blue points represent the significant positive and negative predictors in the models. N: Soil total nitrogen; DIN: Soil dissolved inorganic nitrogen
FIGURE 5A conceptual figure showing species turnover and nestedness processes driving shifts in community composition of plants, soil bacteria, and fungi along an N input gradient in a semiarid steppe