Size and functional diversity of microbe populations control plant persistence and long‐term soil carbon accumulation

By S. Fontaine, S. Barot. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Revisiting the hypothesis that fungal-to-bacterial dominance characterizes turnover of soil organic matter and nutrients (2015, methodology): “…has been thought to capture disparate life strategies for soil microbial decomposers, associating bacteria with an rselected strategy for C and nutrient use, and fungi with a K-selected strategy (Fontaine et al. 2003, Fontaine and Barot 2005, Blagodatskaya and Kuzyakov 2008, Fierer et al. 2009).”
Microbial nitrogen limitation increases decomposition. (2007, background): “…effects that are driven by the relative availability of N and labile C. Increasing litter substrate N or increasing the external N supply could decrease the availability of labile C to those microbes responsible for decomposing recalcitrant C (Fontaine and Barot 2005, Moorhead and Sinsabaugh 2006).”
Grass invasion of a hardwood forest is associated with declines in belowground carbon pools (2010, background): “On one hand evidence suggests that increased degradability of C inputs, as perceived by the microbial community (Strickland et al., 2009), will have a negligible and in some cases a positive impact on belowground C pools (Dalenberg & Jager, 1981; Wu et al., 1993; Fontaine & Barot, 2005).”
Soil carbon stocks in experimental mesocosms are dependent on the rate of labile carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to soils (2008, positive): “1993; Fontaine & Barot 2005) contrasts with priming effect theory because the latter proposes that the increase in microbial activity with elevated labile C inputs will concomitantly stimulate SOC decomposition.”
Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients (2011, background): “…overall rates of heterotrophic respiration as the communities preferentially consume more labile substrates over the more recalcitrant organic C substrates that make up the bulk of the soil organic C pool (akin to eating dessert and ignoring the other meal courses) (Fontaine and Barot, 2005).”
Microbial hotspots and hot moments in soil: Concept & review (2015, background): “This dominance, however, is not directly related to phylogenic structure of microbial community because both r- and K-strategists are abundant within bacterial and fungal phyla as well as within Gramþ and Gram-bacteria groups (Fierer et al., 2007).”
Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change (2009, background): “The presence of an active rhizosphere alters decomposition rates in a number of ecosystems (Fontaine & Barot 2005; Subke et al. 2004; Trueman & Gonzalez-Meler 2005), and these " priming " effects could be altered by soil nutrient status (Kuzyakov 2002; Fontaine & Barot 2005), and potentially by the…”
Microbial communities and their relevance for ecosystem models: Decomposition as a case study (2010, background): “Specifically, the rate-limiting variables for recalcitrant C pools may be the enzymatic capabilities of the resident microbial community (Fontaine and Barot, 2005).”
The Role of Microbial Communities in the Formation and Decomposition of Soil Organic Matter (2010, background): “Microbial nitrogen mining hypothesis: In sharp contrast to the basic stoichiometric decomposition theory, the microbial nitrogen mining hypothesis predicts that when mineral nitrogen becomes scarce in the soil, the population size of decomposers and the net decomposition rates of soil organic matter”
Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks (2008, background): “…mineralization of recent and old soil organic carbon (Zak et al., 1993; Freeman et al., 2004b; Heath et al., 2005), a phenomenon known as ‘priming’ (Fontaine and Barot 2005; Kuzyakov, 2006; Dijkstra and Cheng, 2007); (ii) stimulation of microbial biomass and immobilization of soil N, thereby…”
Contrasting effects of glucose, living roots and maize straw on microbial growth kinetics and substrate availability in soil (2009, methodology): “Fontaine et al. (2003) and Fontaine & Barot (2005) put forward a theory linking the ‘real’ priming effect (i.e. accel- eration of recalcitrant SOM turnover) with development of Correspondence: E. V. Blagodatskaya.”
Earthworm burrows: Kinetics and spatial distribution of enzymes of C-, N- and P- cycles (2016, background): “Thus, the Km increase likely indicated a shift in the functional structure of the microbial community toward the domination by fast-growing but less efficient populationswith lower substrate affinities (Fontaine and Barot, 2005; Blagodatskaya et al., 2009; Blagodatskaya and Kuzyakov, 2013).”