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ArticleScientific reports2018

Vegetation succession influences soil carbon sequestration in coastal alkali-saline soils in southeast China.

Niu Li, Tianyun Shao, Tingshuo Zhu, Xiaohua Long, Xiumei Gao, Zhaopu Liu, Hongbo Shao, Zed Rengel

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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8 authors.

Niu LiCollege of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Tianyun ShaoCollege of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Tingshuo ZhuCollege of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Xiaohua LongCollege of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. longxiaohua@njau.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-8730-5373
Xiumei GaoCollege of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Zhaopu LiuCollege of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China.
Hongbo ShaoSalt-soil Agricultural Center, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhongling Street 50, Nanjing, 210014, China.
Zed RengelSoil Science and Plant Nutrition, School of Earth and Environment, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The area of saline soils accounts for 8% of the earth's surface, making these soils an important terrestrial carbon sink. Soil organic carbon (SOC), microbial biomass carbon (MBC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), soil enzyme activity, and soil bacterial abundance and biodiversity were measured in four successive coastal tidal flat ecosystems representing: bare saline soil (BS), Suaeda glauca land (SL), Imperata cylindrica grassland (IG), and Jerusalem artichoke field (JF). A decrease in soil salt content resulted in increased SOC content. With vegetation succession, MBC and DOC concentrations showed a positive trend, and activities of soil urease, catalase, invertase and alkaline phosphatase increased. A next-generation, Illumina-based sequencing approach showed that Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, Bacteroidetes, Gemmatimonadetes, Actinobacteria, Nitrospirae and Planctomycetes were the dominant bacterial communities (a total of 597 taxa were detected, and 27 genera showed significant differences among the vegetation communities). Bacterial diversity at two soil depths was enhanced with the succession of vegetation ecosystems, with the increases in operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and the Shannon and Chao1 indices ranked in the order: JF > IG > SL > BS. The SOC and C/N were the most determinant factors influencing diversity of bacterial communities in the succession ecosystems.

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