Contrasting Soil pH Effects on Fungal and Bacterial Growth Suggest Functional Redundancy in Carbon Mineralization

By J. Rousk, P. Brookes, E. Bååth. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science

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In Ecology

1. Noah Fierer
2. Rob Knight
3. C. Lauber
4. K. Treseder
5. J. Rousk
6. M. Bradford
7. Y. Kuzyakov
8. J. Gregory Caporaso

In Environmental Chemistry

1. J. Rousk
2. Y. Kuzyakov
3. E. Blagodatskaya
4. K. Treseder
5. E. Bååth
6. Serita Frey
7. C. Lauber
8. S. Kivlin

In Soil Science

1. Y. Kuzyakov
2. K. Treseder
3. J. Rousk
4. E. Blagodatskaya
5. M. Bradford
6. J. Schimel
7. E. Bååth
8. Noah Fierer

Citations in the corpus

• Long-term and legacy effects of manure application on soil microbial community composition (2018, background): “Similar to manure effects on soil microbial diversity, soil pH has been suggested to be the major factor that drives soil bacterial community composition (Pietri and Brookes 2008; Rousk et al. 2009, 2010; Zhang et al. 2017).”
• Soil microbial recolonisation after a fire in a Mediterranean forest (2011, background): “2005; BárcenasMoreno and Bååth 2009), possibly due to a high pH favouring bacterial growth (Rousk et al. 2009) and increasing concentration of dissolved organic C due to the heating treatments inducing rapid growth.”
• Molecular approaches unravel the mechanism of acid soil tolerance in plants (2013, background): “Soil pH has significant adverse effects on the availability of plant nutrients [3], solubility of toxic heavy metals [4], soil microorganism activity [5], breakdown of root cells [6], and cation exchange capacity in soils [7].”
• Active microorganisms in soil: Critical review of estimation criteria and approaches (2013, background): “A 10- and 30-fold increase in substrateinduced respiration and in the fungal:bacterial growth ratio corresponded only to a 2- to 3-fold increase in total and in bacterial/ fungal PLFAs (Rousk et al., 2009, 2010-b).”
• Loss in microbial diversity affects nitrogen cycling in soil (2013, background): “Similarly, minor changes in carbon mineralization despite important shifts in bacterial and fungal growth also suggest functional redundancy (Rousk et al., 2009).”
• Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil (2010, methodology): “Fungal and bacterial biomass (estimated using PLFA and ergosterol; Rousk et al., 2009) and total microbial biomass C and N (measured using a variety of methods; Aciego Pietri and Brookes, 2007b, 2009; Rousk et al.”
• Effects and mechanisms of biochar-microbe interactions in soil improvement and pollution remediation: A review. (2017, methodology): “Fungi and bacteria have different sensitivities to soil pH (Rousk et al., 2009), and bacteria are generally more tolerant to a narrower range of pH and are more sensitive to soil pH changes than fungi are (Rousk et al., 2010).”
• Revisiting the hypothesis that fungal-to-bacterial dominance characterizes turnover of soil organic matter and nutrients (2015, methodology): “…PLFA composition, and total respiration Bacterial growth was measured using the leucine (Leu) incorporation method (Kirchman et al. 1985) adapted for soil (Bååth et al. 2001) with modifications (Rousk et al. 2009), which estimates the rate of protein synthesis as a measure of bacterial growth.”