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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2021

Driving forces for recovery of forest vegetation after harvesting a subalpine oak forest in eastern Tibetan Plateau.

Qinli Xiong, Lingjuan Li, Xiaojin Luo, Xingjin He, Lin Zhang, Kaiwen Pan, Chenggang Liu, Hui Sun

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Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Qinli XiongChina-Croatia "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services & CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences|, Chengdu, 610041, People's Republic of China. xiongql@cib.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3827-3437
Lingjuan LiResearch Group Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, 2610, Wilrijk, Belgium.
Xiaojin LuoChina-Croatia "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services & CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences|, Chengdu, 610041, People's Republic of China.
Xingjin HeCollege of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, People's Republic of China.
Lin ZhangChina-Croatia "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services & CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences|, Chengdu, 610041, People's Republic of China.
Kaiwen PanChina-Croatia "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services & CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization & Ecological Restoration Biodiversity Conservation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences|, Chengdu, 610041, People's Republic of China. pankw@cib.ac.cn.
Chenggang LiuCAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, 666303, People's Republic of China.
Hui SunDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610065, People's Republic of China.
Chengdu Institute of Biology · CNSichuan University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNUniversity of Antwerp · BE

Funding

Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province 2020YFS29National Natural Science Foundation of China 31700544Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2021372
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uncertainty regarding how subalpine forest ecosystems respond to tree harvesting hinders their sustainable management and conservation strategies. To investigate the impact of oak (Quercus aquifolioides Rehd. et Wils.) harvesting and stand recovery processes on soil microbial communities and understory vegetation on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, we sampled and quantified the microbial community structure and understory vegetation in three age classes (1 year, 10 years, and 20 years since tree logging) of harvested stands and an un-harvested reference (control) stand of subalpine oak forest. Our result showed logging significantly altered the edaphic properties (p < 0.001) and shifted microbial community structure (p < 0.05), increasing the abundances of the Actinobacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) but decreasing fungi and general, gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Post-harvest evolution increased the biomass of understory vegetation and reshaped its community. Fungi (18:1ω7c, 18:1ω9c) and gram-negative bacteria (18:2ω7c, cy19:0) abundances changed significantly (p < 0.01) after harvesting and during stand recovery, suggesting their potential use as indicators for post-harvest oak recovery. Structural equation modeling (SEqM) revealed that, via litter, residue, and edaphic properties, the recovery process indirectly promoted microbe abundance while the overstory vegetation regrowth inhibited the plant community's biomass in the understory. Microbial communities only had a minor, direct effect on understory vegetation. Litter and edaphic factors played important roles in reshaping understory plant and soil microbial communities for post-harvest evolution.

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MycorrhizaeQuercusAnti-Bacterial AgentsEcosystemForestsGram-Negative BacteriaGram-Positive BacteriaSoilSoil MicrobiologyTibetAnti-Bacterial AgentsSoilMicrobial communitiesOak forestPost-harvestingStructural equation modelSubalpineUnderstory vegetation

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