NDLI: Assessing soil microbial respiration capacity using rDNA- or rRNA-based indices: a review

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Author	Che, Rongxiao Wang, Weijin Zhang, Jing Nguyen, Thi Thu Nhan Tao, Juan Wang, Fang Wang, Yanfen Xu, Zhihong Cui, Xiaoyong
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Understanding soil heterotrophic respiration in relation to microbial properties is not only fundamental to soil respiration modelling, prediction, and regulation through management, but also essential to interpreting microbial community dynamics from an ecologically meaningful perspective. This paper reviewed the recent advances in knowledge and proposed future directions for exploring the respiration-microbe relationships by means of rDNA- or rRNA-based indices (i.e. rDNA copies, rRNA copies, and rDNA- or rRNA-based community structures).We first elucidated the theoretical basis for using rDNA- or rRNA-based indices to probe into soil microbial respiration. Then, the published studies that simultaneously measured soil microbial respiration and the rDNA- or rRNA-based indices were synthesized, extracted, and analysed to further explore the respiration-microbe relationships. At last, the uncertainties and perspectives for establishing the respiration-microbe links were proposed and discussed.The rDNA- or rRNA-based indices are theoretically promising for pinpointing the relationships between soil heterotrophic respiration and microbial properties. Our systematic review suggested that the correlations between bacterial rDNA copies and microbial respiration are inconsistent across studies, while the fungal and archaeal rDNA (or ITS) copies showed moderately positive and negative correlations with soil microbial respiration, respectively. Bacterial 16S rDNA-based community structures were significantly correlated with soil microbial respiration in some studies, but not in some short-term situations. Although rRNA copies are widely used as the proxies of microbial activity, no significant correlations between rRNA copies and soil microbial respiration have been found in previous studies. Bacterial 16S rRNA-based community structures were correlated well with the short-term responses of soil microbial respiration to rewetting or labile carbon amendments and clearly outperformed other rDNA- or rRNA-based indices. As respiration-microbe relationships can be affected by many factors, such as soil physicochemical properties and even the analysis methods of microbial indices, the 69 previous studies included in this review actually provided limited information on them, and the aforementioned results still need to be further confirmed in future studies.Overall, the relationships between soil microbial respiration and rDNA- or rRNA-based indices are still far from being well established. Future research should be directed to systematically understanding the respiration-microbe links, with more attention to the fungus-, archaea- and RNA-related molecular indices. The relationships between microbial specific lineages and total respiration rates should be explored in future studies, and the effects of edaphic properties on the respiration-microbe relationships should also be evaluated.
Starting Page	2698
Ending Page	2708
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14390108
Journal	Journal of Soils and Sediments
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	12
e-ISSN	16147480
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2016-09-20
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Soil microorganism Carbon cycle Microbial respiration rRNA Microbial activity Soil Science & Conservation Environment Environmental Physics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Stratigraphy Earth-Surface Processes

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