Assessing turnover of microbial biomass phosphorus: Combination of an isotopic dilution method with a mass balance model

Microbial biomass phosphorus (P) can play an important role in P cycling and availability to plants by acting as a source (remineralization) or sink (immobilization) of phosphate ions (iP). To assess the role of the microbial P pools, both the dynamics (i.e. the turnover) and the size of the microbi...

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Vydáno v:Soil biology & biochemistry Ročník 42; číslo 12; s. 2231 - 2240
Hlavní autoři: Achat, David L., Morel, Christian, Bakker, Mark R., Augusto, Laurent, Pellerin, Sylvain, Gallet-Budynek, Anne, Gonzalez, Maya
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2010
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ISSN:0038-0717, 1879-3428
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Shrnutí:Microbial biomass phosphorus (P) can play an important role in P cycling and availability to plants by acting as a source (remineralization) or sink (immobilization) of phosphate ions (iP). To assess the role of the microbial P pools, both the dynamics (i.e. the turnover) and the size of the microbial P pools were studied in forest soils. Combining an isotopic dilution method with a modelling approach, we showed the existence of two pools of microbial P with different dynamics and therefore of different importance in soil P availability and cycling. In particular, we showed that the largest pool of microbial P (80%) had a fast turnover (nine days). Microbial P increased with an increase in soil organic matter and represented up to 53% of total P in contrasting forest soils. By combining these results with the turnover times of microbial P obtained in the modelling study, we evaluated that 8.5–17.3 kg P ha −1 of microbial P could turn over in a few days. This suggests that microbial biomass P is a potentially significant source of available iP, and that micro-organisms can play a major role in P cycling in the forest studied here. However, microbial biomass can also be in competition with the trees since most of the remineralized P could be immobilized again in the microbial turnover.
Bibliografie:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.08.023
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ISSN:0038-0717
1879-3428
DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.08.023