Abstract
Purpose
This study was conducted to investigate shifts in the bacterial community structure and soil enzyme activities during long-term reclamation of different land use types in a freshwater wetland.
Materials and methods
Illumina 16S rRNA gene amplification and sequencing and soil extracellular enzymes were used to evaluate changes in bacterial community structure and potential function under four different land use types after 38 years of reclamation: abandoned wetland (AW), vegetable field (VF), pond sediment (PS), rice field (RF) and natural wetland (NW).
Results and discussion
Although bacterial rRNA gene alpha diversity remained unchanged, the bacterial community composition changed significantly under different land uses according to hydrological conditions. Under drying-wetting cycle conditions, RF harbored a similar bacterial community composition as NW, with Acidobacteriales, Holophagae, Planctomycetes, and Spirochaetae being dominant in both. Additionally, AW and VF as upland soil had significantly higher abundance of Gemmatimonadates and Actinobacteria. The composition of permanently flooded soil (PS) had unique features and significantly enriched levels of Chlorobi. The shifts in bacterial community structure were mainly driven by soil moisture content, as well as total organic C and N. However, variations in potential enzyme activities were better explained by soil properties than microbial community composition, suggesting high plasticity of the resident microbial community to environmental conditions.
Conclusions
Rice field harbored a similar bacterial community structure as natural wetland, while the responses of enzyme activities for all land use types differed significantly. The distributions of bacterial community might be influenced by hydrology, while extracellular enzyme activities were closely related to soil properties. Our results suggest that the function of the active microbial community should also be considered in environmental risk models as indicators of ecosystem conversion caused by land use and anthropogenic activity.
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We thank Jeremy Kamen, MSc, from Liwen Bianji, Edanz Group China (www.liwenbianji.cn/ac), for editing the English text of a draft of this manuscript.
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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundations of China (Grant No. 31660149, 31360127 and 30860062) and Nanchang University Seed Grant 358 for Biomedicine (9202-0210210807).
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Fig. S1
The rarefaction curves for natural wetland and four long-term reclaimed lands. Note: AW: abandoned wetland; VF: vegetable field; PS: pond sediment; RF: rice paddy field; NW: natural wetland (PNG 29 kb)
Fig. S2
A 100% stacked column chart of relative abundances of the dominant bacterial phyla derived from 16S rRNA genes at five sampling sites. The relative abundance of the targeted sequences to the total high-quality bacterial sequences (abundance > 1%) from natural wetland and four long-term reclaimed lands. Note: AW: abandoned wetland; VF: vegetable field; PS: pond sediment; RF: rice paddy field; NW: natural wetland (PNG 25 kb)
Fig. S3
The PCA analysis of soil extracellular enzyme from natural wetland and four long-term reclaimed lands. Note: AW: abandoned wetland; VF: vegetable field; PS: pond sediment; RF: rice paddy field; NW: natural wetland. Phox: phenol oxidase; Pero: peroxidase; Bglu: β-D-glucosidase; Bxyl: β-D-xylanase; NAG: N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase; Phos: phosphatase (PNG 36 kb)
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Huang, L., Hu, W., Tao, J. et al. Soil bacterial community structure and extracellular enzyme activities under different land use types in a long-term reclaimed wetland. J Soils Sediments 19, 2543–2557 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-019-02262-1
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