NDLI: Modelling the effect of active roots on soil organic matter turnover

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Author	Bottner, Pierre Pansu, Marc Sallih, Zaher
Copyright Year	1999
Abstract	The aim of this experiment was to study the effect of living roots on soil carbon metabolism at different decomposition stages during a long-term incubation. Plant material labelled with $^{14}$C and $^{15}$N was incubated in two contrasting soils under controlled laboratory conditions, over two years. Half the samples were cropped with wheat (Triticum aestivum) 11 times in succession. At earing time the wheat was harvested, the roots were extracted from the soil and a new crop was started. Thus the soils were continuously occupied by active root systems. The other half of the samples was maintained bare, without plants under the same conditions. Over the 2 years, pairs of cropped and bare soils were analysed at eight sampling occasions (total-, plant debris-, and microbial biomass-C and -$^{14}$C). A five compartment (labile and recalcitrant plant residues, labile microbial metabolites, microbial biomass and stabilised humified compounds) decomposition model was fitted to the labelled and soil native organic matter data of the bare and cropped soils. Two different phases in the decomposition processes showed a different plant effect. (1) During the initial fast decomposition stage, labile $^{14}$C-material stimulated microbial activities and N immobilisation, increasing the $^{14}$C-microbial biomass. In the presence of living roots, competition between micro-organisms and plants for inorganic N weakly lowered the measured and predicted total-$^{14}$C mineralisation and resulted in a lower plant productivity compared to subsequent growths. (2) In contrast, beyond 3–6 months, when the labile material was exhausted, during the slow decomposition stage, the presence of living roots stimulated the mineralisation of the recalcitrant plant residue-$^{14}$C in the sandy soil and of the humified-$^{14}$C in the clay soil. In the sandy soil, the presence of roots also substantially stimulated decomposition of old soil native humus compounds. During this slow decomposition stage, the measured and predicted plant induced decrease in total-$^{14}$C and -C was essentially explained by the predicted decrease in humus-$^{14}$C and -C. The $^{14}$C-microbial biomass (MB) partly decayed or became inactive in the bare soils, whereas in the rooted soils, the labelled MB turnover was accelerated: the MB-$^{14}$C was replaced by unlabelled-C from C derived from living roots. At the end of experiment, the MB-C in the cropped soils was 2.5–3 times higher than in the bare soils. To sustain this biomass and activity, the model predicted a daily root derived C input (rhizodeposition), amounting to 5.4 and 3.2% of the plant biomass-C or estimated at 46 and 41% of the daily net assimilated C (shoot + root + rhizodeposition C) in the clay and sandy soil, respectively.
Starting Page	15
Ending Page	25
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0032079X
Journal	Plant and Soil
Volume Number	216
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	15735036
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	1999-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ecology Plant Sciences Plant Physiology Soil Science & Conservation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Soil Science Plant Science

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