Impact of carbon and flooding on the metabolic diversity of microbial communities in soils.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
D A Bossio, K M Scow

Abstract

The assumption that carbon and soil water content are major determinants of microbial community structure and function is rarely questioned because of substantial evidence of the impacts of these variables on specific populations and functions. The significance of carbon and water for metabolic diversity at the microbial community level was tested on the field scale in agricultural plots varying in carbon inputs and in whether they were flooded. Surface soils in which rice straw was incorporated or burned and which were flooded or unflooded were sampled at monthly intervals three times during the flooded winter period (January to March) and again 1 month postdraining. Biomass carbon and nitrogen were not affected by treatments, active bacterial counts showed slight increases, and respiration rates were increased by carbon inputs and flooding. Biolog microplates were inoculated with soil extracts to quantify the metabolic diversity of the soil microbial community. Canonical correspondence analysis and the Monte Carlo permutation testing showed that differences in substrate utilization patterns were significantly related (P < 0.001) to carbon and flooding treatments. Biolog substrates whose metabolism was altered by the treatment...Continue Reading

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