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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morriën, Elly
• Hannula, S Emilia
• Snoek, L Basten
• Helmsing, Nico R
• Zweers, Hans
• de Hollander, Mattias
• Soto, Raquel Luján
• Bouffaud, Marie-Lara
• Buée, Marc
• Dimmers, Wim
• Duyts, Henk
• Geisen, Stefan
• Girlanda, Mariangela
• Griffiths, Rob I
• Jørgensen, Helene-Bracht
• Jensen, John
• Plassart, Pierre
• Redecker, Dirk
• Schmelz, Rűdiger M
• Schmidt, Olaf
• Thomson, Bruce C
• Tisserant, Emilie
• Uroz, Stephane
• Winding, Anne
• Bailey, Mark J
• Bonkowski, Michael
• Faber, Jack H
• Martin, Francis
• Lemanceau, Philippe
• de Boer, Wietse
• van Veen, Johannes A
• van der Putten, Wim H

Titel

Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses

Ist Teil von

• Nature communications, 2017-02, Vol.8 (1), p.14349-14349, Article 14349

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Soil organisms have an important role in aboveground community dynamics and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, most studies have considered soil biota as a black box or focussed on specific groups, whereas little is known about entire soil networks. Here we show that during the course of nature restoration on abandoned arable land a compositional shift in soil biota, preceded by tightening of the belowground networks, corresponds with enhanced efficiency of carbon uptake. In mid- and long-term abandoned field soil, carbon uptake by fungi increases without an increase in fungal biomass or shift in bacterial-to-fungal ratio. The implication of our findings is that during nature restoration the efficiency of nutrient cycling and carbon uptake can increase by a shift in fungal composition and/or fungal activity. Therefore, we propose that relationships between soil food web structure and carbon cycling in soils need to be reconsidered.