ArticleThe New phytologist2013
Responses of belowground carbon allocation dynamics to extended shading in mountain grassland.
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- Drought and recovery effects on belowground respiration dynamics and the partitioning of recent carbon in managed and abandoned grassland.Global change biology · 2020Article
- Land use in mountain grasslands alters drought response and recovery of carbon allocation and plant-microbial interactions.The Journal of ecology · 2018Article
- Drought-Induced Accumulation of Root Exudates Supports Post-drought Recovery of Microbes in Mountain Grassland.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Article
- Tillage and nitrogen fertilization enhanced belowground carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in a semi-arid canola crop-soil system.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Drought history affects grassland plant and microbial carbon turnover during and after a subsequent drought event.The Journal of ecology · 2016Article
- Habitat Fragmentation can Modulate Drought Effects on the Plant-soil-microbial System in Mediterranean Holm Oak (Quercus ilex) Forests.Microbial ecology · 2015Article
- Exploring the transfer of recent plant photosynthates to soil microbes: mycorrhizal pathway vs direct root exudation.The New phytologist · 2015Article
- Summer drought alters carbon allocation to roots and root respiration in mountain grassland.The New phytologist · 2015Article
- Rhizosphere bacterial carbon turnover is higher in nucleic acids than membrane lipids: implications for understanding soil carbon cycling.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
- Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities.Annals of botany · 2014Article
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- Experimental drought reduces the transfer of recently fixed plant carbon to soil microbes and alters the bacterial community composition in a mountain meadow.The New phytologist · 2014Article
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Abstract
Carbon (C) allocation strongly influences plant and soil processes. Short-term C allocation dynamics in ecosystems and their responses to environmental changes are still poorly understood. Using in situ (13) CO(2) pulse labeling, we studied the effects of 1 wk of shading on the transfer of recent photoassimilates between sugars and starch of above- and belowground plant organs and to soil microbial communities of a mountain meadow. C allocation to roots and microbial communities was rapid. Shading strongly reduced sucrose and starch concentrations in shoots, but not roots, and affected tracer dynamics in sucrose and starch of shoots, but not roots: recent C was slowly incorporated into root starch irrespective of the shading treatment. Shading reduced leaf respiration more strongly than root respiration. It caused no reduction in the amount of (13) C incorporated into fungi and Gram-negative bacteria, but increased its residence time. These findings suggest that, under interrupted C supply, belowground C allocation (as reflected by the amount of tracer allocated to root starch, soil microbial communities and belowground respiration) was maintained at the expense of aboveground C status, and that C source strength may affect the turnover of recent plant-derived C in soil microbial communities.
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