Biotic Mechanisms of Nitrogen Deposition Influencing Forest Soil Carbon Mineralization
The global climate change caused by dramatic increases in atmospheric nitrogen deposition and CO2 concentration has become a severe eco-environmental issue around the world.Soil carbon mineralization is a key process in the carbon cycling in forest ecosystem.It not only affects the fixation and transformation of forest soil carbon but also lead to global climate warming through the CO2 release.Exploring the biological mechanism of atmospheric nitrogen deposition influencing soil carbon mineralization is helpful to increase people's scientific understanding of the process of carbon source-sink balancing in forest ecosystems,which may have an extremely important significance for global climate change research.Based on the ecological interactive process of"plant-microbial-soil fauna"in forest ecosystem,the effects of biotic changes of forest plants(litter,roots and their secretions),soil microorganisms(biomass,community structure,diversity and nutrient metabolism competition),soil enzymes(types,quantity and activity),and soil fauna(earthworms,ants,nematodes,mites,and collembola)on soil carbon mineralization and its mechanism are expounded under the background of increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition.This study is thus expected to provide a theoretical support for accurately predicting the effect of atmospheric nitrogen deposition influencing global climate change.