Xu Hengkang, Chen Chao, Pang Zhuo, Zhang Guofang, Wu Juying, Kan Haiming
Institute of Grassland, Flowers and Ecology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (BAAFS), No. 9 Shuguang Garden Middle Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100097, China.
J Fungi (Basel). 2022 Oct 25;8(11):1122. doi: 10.3390/jof8111122.
Different vegetation restoration methods may affect the soil’s physicochemical properties and microbial communities. However, it is not known how the microbial network’s complexity of the bacterial and fungal communities respond to short-term vegetation restoration. We conducted a short-term ecological restoration experiment to reveal the response of the soil’s microbial community and microbial network’s stability to initial vegetation restoration during the restoration of the degraded grassland ecosystem. The two restoration methods (sowing alfalfa (Medicago sativa, AF) and smooth brome (Bromus inermis, SB)) had no significant effect on the alpha diversity of the fungal community, but the SB significantly increased the alpha diversity of the soil surface bacterial community (p < 0.01). The results of NMDS showed that the soil’s fungal and bacterial communities were altered by a short-term vegetation restoration, and they showed that the available phosphorus (AP), available potassium (AK), and nitrate nitrogen (nitrate-N) were closely related to changes in bacterial and fungal communities. Moreover, a short-term vegetation restoration significantly increased the complexity and stability of fungi ecological networks, but the opposite was the case with the bacteria. Our findings confirm that ecological restoration by sowing may be favorable to the amelioration of soil fungi complexity and stability in the short-term. Such findings may have important implications for soil microbial processes in vegetation recovery.
不同的植被恢复方法可能会影响土壤的理化性质和微生物群落。然而,尚不清楚细菌和真菌群落的微生物网络复杂性如何响应短期植被恢复。我们进行了一项短期生态恢复实验,以揭示退化草地生态系统恢复过程中土壤微生物群落和微生物网络稳定性对初始植被恢复的响应。两种恢复方法(播种紫花苜蓿(Medicago sativa,AF)和无芒雀麦(Bromus inermis,SB))对真菌群落的α多样性没有显著影响,但SB显著增加了土壤表层细菌群落的α多样性(p < 0.01)。非度量多维尺度分析(NMDS)结果表明,短期植被恢复改变了土壤真菌和细菌群落,结果表明有效磷(AP)、有效钾(AK)和硝态氮(nitrate-N)与细菌和真菌群落的变化密切相关。此外,短期植被恢复显著增加了真菌生态网络的复杂性和稳定性,但细菌的情况则相反。我们的研究结果证实,播种进行生态恢复在短期内可能有利于改善土壤真菌的复杂性和稳定性。这些发现可能对植被恢复中的土壤微生物过程具有重要意义。