首页|Secondary succession and parent material drive soil bacterial community composition in terraced abandoned olive groves from a Mediterranean hyper-humid mountainous area
Secondary succession and parent material drive soil bacterial community composition in terraced abandoned olive groves from a Mediterranean hyper-humid mountainous area
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? 2022 The AuthorsMediterranean humid mountains are ecological hotspots with high water availability that may accelerate their recovery after farmland abandonment, a widespread phenomenon in marginal areas of the European Mediterranean Region. This land use change led to secondary succession processes triggering changes in soil properties and soil microorganisms. This is the first study in assessing the environmental influence of both ecological succession and parent material over soil properties and soil bacterial communities in these habitats. To examine the effects of secondary succession and elucidate the role of parent material in soil bacterial communities, six soil plots were sampled from the combination of abandoned and rainfed olive groves, terraced or non-terraced, and over four parent materials in Lluc Valley, a Mediterranean hyper-humid mountainous area on the island of Mallorca, Spain. Soil bacterial diversity and taxonomic composition at phylum and family level in each field were analyzed by rRNA 16 S amplicon sequencing. In addition, a series of soil physicochemical and microbiological properties, together with enzyme activities were assessed. Results showed that secondary succession and parent material significantly affected soil physicochemical and microbiological properties, soil enzyme activities and soil bacterial communities’ diversity and taxonomic composition. Secondary succession following farmland abandonment triggered higher total organic carbon (TOC), microbial biomass carbon (Cmic), basal soil respiration (REB), alkaline phosphatase activity (Php) and dehydrogenase activity (DHA), thus enhancing soil quality. In contrast, parent material significantly shaped pH, specific surface area (SSA), TOC, Cmic, REB and soil enzyme activities, playing a key role in land use effects modulation. According to the distance-based redundancy analysis (db-RDA), SSA, TOC, REB, Cmic, urease activity (Ur) and Php were the soil properties that contributed to significant changes in bacterial communities’ composition at the family level. This study evidenced that farmland abandonment led to improve soil quality in Mediterranean humid mountains, with positive feedbacks provided by parent material.
Company J.、Fortesa J.、Garcia-Comendador J.、Estrany J.、Valiente N.、Lucas-Borja M.E.、Ortega R.、Miralles I.
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Mediterranean Ecogeomorphological and Hydrological Connectivity Research Team Department of Geography University of the Balearic Islands
Centre for Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene Department of Biosciences Section for Aquatic Biology and Toxicology University of Oslo
Department of Agroforestry Technology and Science and Genetics School of Advanced Agricultural and Forestry Engineering University of Castilla La Mancha Campus Universitario
Department of Agronomy and Center for Research in Intensive Mediterranean Agrosystems and Agri-food Biotechnology (CIAIMBITAL) University of Almeria
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