401. Response of native soil microbial functions to the controlled mycorrhization of an exotic tree legume, Acacia holosericea in a Sahelian ecosystem
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Amadou Bâ, Mohamed Hafidi, Victor Hien, Sheikh K. Sangare, Antoine Galiana, Ezekeil Baudoin, A. Bilgo, Robin Duponnois, Y. Prin, Jean Thioulouse, Ecologie quantitative et évolutive des communautés, Département écologie évolutive [LBBE], Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive - UMR 5558 (LBBE), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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EXTERNAL HYPHAE ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,F62 - Physiologie végétale - Croissance et développement ,Plant Science ,Functional diversity ,Plant Roots ,Mycorhizé à vésicule et arbuscule ,Exotic tree species ,Trees ,BIOMASS ,Glomeromycota ,Soil ,Africa, Northern ,Soil functions ,Mycorrhizae ,Acacia holosericea ,Soil Microbiology ,2. Zero hunger ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Acacia ,Mycorrhizal soil potential ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,General Medicine ,Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis ,Soil microbial communities ,communities ,Disponibilité d'élément nutritif ,Glomus intraradices ,Fertilizer ,Micro-organisme du sol ,CATABOLIC DIVERSITY ,Soil microbiology ,Écosystème ,Reconstitution forestière ,Symbiose ,engineering.material ,03 medical and health sciences ,food ,ORGANIC-CARBON ,Soil microbial ,Fertilité du sol ,Genetics ,Ecosystem ,Fertilizers ,Molecular Biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,LAND-USE ,P35 - Fertilité du sol ,P34 - Biologie du sol ,FUNGI ,AUSTRALIAN ACACIA ,15. Life on land ,INOCULATION ,biology.organism_classification ,food.food ,K10 - Production forestière ,Agronomy ,PLANT-GROWTH ,Soil water ,040103 agronomy & agriculture ,engineering ,0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries ,COMMUNITIES - Abstract
International audience; Fifty years of overexploitation have disturbed most forests within Sahelian areas. Exotic fast growing trees (i.e., Australian Acacia species) have subsequently been introduced for soil improvement and fuelwood production purposes. Additionally, rhizobial or mycorrhizal symbioses have sometimes been favored by means of controlled inoculations to increase the performance of these exotic trees in such arid and semiarid zones. Large-scale anthropogenic introduction of exotic plants could also threaten the native biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. We carried out an experimental reforestation in Burkina Faso in order to study the effects of Acacia holosericea mycorrhizal inoculation on the soil nutrient content, microbial soil functionalities and mycorrhizal soil potential. Treatments consisted of uninoculated A. holosericea, preplanting fertilizer application and arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation with Glomus intraradices. Our results showed that (i) arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) inoculation and prefertilizer application significantly improved A. holosericea growth after 4 years of plantation and (ii) the introduction of A. holosericea trees significantly modified soil microbial functions. The results clearly showed that the use of exotic tree legume species should be directly responsible for important changes in soil microbiota with great disturbances in essential functions driven by microbial communities (e.g., catabolic diversity and C cycling, phosphatase activity and P availability). They also highlighted the importance of AM symbiosis in the functioning of soils and forest plantation performances. The AM effect on soil functions was significantly correlated with the enhanced mycorrhizal soil potential recorded in the AM inoculation treatment.
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- 2012