J 2017

Is glomalin an appropriate indicator of forest soil reactive nitrogen status?

ROTTER, Pavel, Stanislav MALÝ, Ondřej SÁŇKA, Milan SÁŇKA, David ČIŽMÁR et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Is glomalin an appropriate indicator of forest soil reactive nitrogen status?

Authors

ROTTER, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Stanislav MALÝ (203 Czech Republic), Ondřej SÁŇKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Milan SÁŇKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), David ČIŽMÁR (203 Czech Republic), Jiří ZBÍRAL (203 Czech Republic), Jarmila CECHMANKOVA (203 Czech Republic) and Tereza KALÁBOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE, WEINHEIM, WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 2017, 1436-8730

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.163

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094342

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000418420200007

Keywords in English

forest soil; GRSP; nitrogen availability; soil organic carbon

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 5/4/2018 15:59, Ing. Nicole Zrilić

Abstract

V originále

In this paper we address total glomalin-related soil protein (T-GRSP) as a possible indicator of differences in forest soils related to reactive nitrogen and forest composition. We focused especially on the relationship between T-GRSP (g kg(-1)), soil organic carbon (SOC), and reactive nitrogen (N-r) availability among different categories of temperate forests and different horizons. Our study included 105 sampling sites divided into 5 categories, which vary in elevation and tree species composition (coniferous, deciduous, mixed). We detected significantly higher T-GRSP and SOC in the F+H horizon under conifers. We assume that this observation might be attributed to suppression of decomposition of T-GRSP and SOC by nature of coniferous litter. We found a significantly higher content of T-GRSP in the F+H horizon for all studied forest categories. However, the contribution of T-GRSP to SOC is significantly higher in the Ahorizon, which might be caused by stabilization of glomalin by mineral fraction, including clay minerals or by the belowground origin of glomalin. We found the increase of SOC with increasing N-r in the Ahorizon for most categories of forest. T-GRSP follows this trend in the case of deciduous forests (decid), mixed forest (mixed), and mountain forests (mount). On the other hand, we detected a decrease of T-GRSP with increasing N-r in the F+H horizon of coniferous forests (conif). The T-GRSP/SOC decreases with the increase of N-r in the Ahorizon of conif, mixed and mount, which points to the higher sensitivity of forest with prevalence of coniferous trees. Our observations have confirmed an ecosystem-specific relationship between T-GRSP, SOC and N-r. We concluded that T-GRSP in combination with T-GRSP/SOC has the potential to reveal qualitative changes in soil organic matter (SOM) connected with increasing N-r.

Links

LM2015051, research and development project
Name: Centrum pro výzkum toxických látek v prostředí (Acronym: RECETOX RI)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
LO1214, research and development project
Name: Centrum pro výzkum toxických látek v prostředí (Acronym: RECETOX)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
QI112A201, research and development project
Name: Metody hodnocení zátěže lesních půd rizikovými látkami a identifikace ekologických rizik kontaminace lesních půd (Acronym: KOLEP)
Investor: Ministry of Agriculture of the CR, Rural development