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Long-term nitrogen fertilization, but not short-term tillage reversal, affects bacterial community structure and function in a no-till soil
- Source :
- Journal of Soils and Sediments. 22:630-639
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- No-till (NT) and fertilization are common land management practices in agricultural production systems to increase soil quality and crop yield. No-till can be reversed to tillage (termed tillage reversal, TR, in this paper) due to changes in management objectives. The impact of NT, TR, and TR plus nitrogen (N) fertilization (TRN) treatments on the composition and structure of bacterial communities in a Gray Luvisol was studied in west-central Alberta, Canada. The structure of bacterial communities was not affected by the TR treatment (compared with NT). The TRN treatment increased the relative abundance of some bacterial taxa groups, e.g., Gemmatimonadetes, Thermoleophilia and Solibacteres, that have chemolithotrophic nitrifying functions as compared with the TR treatment. The decreased relative abundance of some bacterial taxa groups, such as Alphaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria, Spartobacteria, and Planctomycetia that have denitrifying functions, would change the soil’s denitrification function in the TRN as compared to the TR treatment. There were more dominant bacterial taxa groups, and the bacterial community had greater inter-annual variations in the TRN than in the NT and TR treatments. Moreover, the function of bacterial communities was affected by the TRN as compared to the NT and TR treatments, based on the predicted metagenomes. We conclude that when TR was applied to the soil with long-term N fertilization, which eliminates N limitation, altered soil bacterial community structure and function over TR applied to the studied Gray Luvisol without long-term N fertilization. Findings from our study have important implications for improving land management practices through tillage and N fertilization to enhance the soil’s function and quality in agroecosystems.
- Subjects :
- 2. Zero hunger
Agroecosystem
0303 health sciences
Stratigraphy
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
15. Life on land
Biology
biology.organism_classification
Soil quality
6. Clean water
Tillage
03 medical and health sciences
No-till farming
Denitrifying bacteria
Human fertilization
Agronomy
040103 agronomy & agriculture
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Gemmatimonadetes
Relative species abundance
030304 developmental biology
Earth-Surface Processes
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16147480 and 14390108
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Soils and Sediments
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a1776e3dda7b5ee13c19b8458365a441