Henneron, Ludovic and Kardol, Paul and Wardle, David and Cros, Camille and Fontaine, Sebastien
(2020).
Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies.
New Phytologist. 228
, 1269-1282
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Abstract
Understanding how plant species influence soil nutrient cycling is a major theme in terrestrial ecosystem ecology. However, the prevailing paradigm has mostly focused on litter decomposition, while rhizosphere effects on soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition have attracted little attention. Using a dual(13)C/N-15 labeling approach in a 'common garden' glasshouse experiment, we investigated how the economic strategies of 12 grassland plant species (graminoids, forbs and legumes) drive soil nitrogen (N) cycling via rhizosphere processes, and how this in turn affects plant N acquisition and growth. Acquisitive species with higher photosynthesis, carbon rhizodeposition and N uptake than conservative species induced a stronger acceleration of soil N cycling through rhizosphere priming of SOM decomposition. This allowed them to take up larger amounts of N and allocate it above ground to promote photosynthesis, thereby sustaining their faster growth. The N-2-fixation ability of legumes enhanced rhizosphere priming by promoting photosynthesis and rhizodeposition. Our study demonstrates that the economic strategies of plant species regulate a plant-soil carbon-nitrogen feedback operating through the rhizosphere. These findings provide novel mechanistic insights into how plant species with contrasting economic strategies sustain their nutrition and growth through regulating the cycling of nutrients by soil microbes in their rhizosphere.
Authors/Creators: | Henneron, Ludovic and Kardol, Paul and Wardle, David and Cros, Camille and Fontaine, Sebastien | ||||||
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Title: | Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | New Phytologist | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
Volume: | 228 | ||||||
Page range: | 1269-1282 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||||
Publisher: | WILEY | ||||||
ISSN: | 0028-646X | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Botany | ||||||
Keywords: | decomposition, leaf and root traits, nutrient cycling, photosynthesis, plant economics spectrum, plant-soil interactions, rhizodeposition, rhizosphere priming effect | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-107115 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-107115 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 18726 | ||||||
Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (S) > Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 24 Nov 2020 16:43 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:22 |
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