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Shift of fungal community composition in response to exogenous C application associated with soil properties after 10-year field experiment in black soil of China

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Abstract

Purpose

Soil fungi are responsible for mediating carbon (C) and nutrient cycling processes, and the types of exogenous C inputs likely affect the abundance and diversity of soil fungi and the soil function fungal community provided. Therefore, it is vital to understand how different exogenous C inputs influence fungal communities.

Methods

We surveyed soil fungal community compositions and relationships with soil properties of agricultural soil in black soil of China that received either straw (SR), manure (MR), or straw biochar (BR) for 10 years.

Results

All three exogenous materials increased soil carbon storage (CS) in the order of BR > MR = SR and altered fungal community composition in MR > SR > BR order compared to control treatment. According to principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), manure inputs explained 52% of the variation in fungal community composition, followed by straw and straw biochar, which explained 31 and 21%, respectively. Network analysis indicated strong correlation between fungal relative abundances and mean weight diameters (MWDs) of soil aggregates and bulk density (BD), but only weak correlations with soil nutrients measured.

Conclusion

We concluded that exogenous C materials play a key role in shifting fungal community composition and soil physical properties. Our results showed not only how different C inputs affect soil properties, such as bulk density and MWD, and how these inputs alter fungal species composition. The result would be useful to recover and rebuilt the healthy soil of worldwide.

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The research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (42177279).

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  1. School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, No. 219 Ningliu Road, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Yun-Fa Qiao & Shu-Jie Miao

  2. Guangdong Xin’an Vocational Technical College, No. 259 Hedong Road, Shenzhen, 518109, China

    Xu-Cheng Miao

  3. Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    Martin Burger

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Qiao, YF., Miao, XC., Burger, M. et al. Shift of fungal community composition in response to exogenous C application associated with soil properties after 10-year field experiment in black soil of China. J Soils Sediments 22, 2281–2289 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-022-03226-8

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