钝化材料对农田土壤Cd形态及微生物群落的影响

为探讨钝化剂对土壤Cd生态风险和土壤微生物群落结构的影响，通过田间试验，在轻度Cd污染水稻田中施加钝化剂（海泡石、石灰、秸秆生物炭和螯合铁肥）开展相关研究。结果表明：施加钝化剂使土壤pH值提高0.17~1.29个单位，Cd的可交换态减少29.79%~64.48%。施加海泡石、石灰、秸秆生物炭使得微生物群落的多样性指数（ACE、Chao1、Shannon）增加，但螯合铁肥不利于微生物群落的生长，多样性指数均减少。土壤微生物群落随钝化剂的施加发生显著改变，变形菌门、厚壁菌门、拟杆菌门相对丰度有所增加，芽单胞菌门、绿弯菌门、螺旋体菌门相对丰度均降低。相关性分析表明，pH和Cd是影响微生物群落的关键因素，此外Cd形态也对微生物群落产生了影响。研究表明，施用钝化剂可降低土壤中重金属Cd的潜在生态风险，改变土壤微生物群落结构，使多种微生物群落得到抑制或增强。     

Positionality and protocol in field research: Undertaking community‐based investigations in Samoa

This article considers the experiences of a Samoan female geographer undertaking community‐based field research in her home country, and identifies some lessons for researchers working in similar circumstances. The paper suggests that ethical behaviour in research is ‘place‐specific’, and there is therefore a need to employ culturally sensitive and ‘location‐specific’ methodologies when undertaking community‐based research fieldwork. For the lead researcher, growing up in Samoa played a significant role in gaining an understanding of a set of robust and effective procedures to evaluate citizens' resilience to climatic and other environmental challenges. Fluency in everyday and more formal local languages, and awareness of local differences, each with multi‐layered connections to local communities, understanding cultural nuances and practising respect for va tapuia [sacred space or relationships] protocols, together facilitated the process of knowledge acquisition and helped to confirm the validity of the conclusions derived from the study.     

基于高通量测序技术分析2种菌草根际土壤真菌群落多样性

为了解福州菌草基地巨菌草和绿洲一号2种菌草的根际土壤真菌群落多样性,采用Illumina Miseq高通量测序技术和生物信息学方法,对菌草根际土真菌的多样性及群落结构进行分析。结果表明：从3份土壤样本中获得525 292条ITS序列,在97%序列相似性基础上可划分为7267个可操作分类单元（OTU）。真菌群落的丰富度指数（ACE）以菌草非根际土最低,绿洲一号根际土略高于巨菌草根际土;而多样性指数（Shannon-Wiener和Simpson）菌草根际土高于非根际土,绿洲一号根际土略高于巨菌草根际土。3份样品的优势菌门为子囊菌门（Ascomycota）、担子菌门（Basidiomycota）、接合菌门（Zygomycota）、壶菌门（Chytridiomycota）、球囊菌门（Glomeromycota）;优势菌纲为散囊菌纲（Eurotiomycetes）、粪壳菌纲（ Sordariomycetes）、座囊菌纲（Dothideomycetes）、伞菌纲（Agaricomycetes）、锤舌菌纲（Leotiomycetes）、圆盘菌纲（Orbiliomycetes）、银耳纲（Tremellomycetes）、粘膜菌纲（Wallemiomycetes）;优势菌属为篮状菌属（Talaromyces）、深黄伞形霉属（Umbelopsis）、枝孢菌属（Cladosporium）、暗双孢菌属（Cordana）、镰刀菌属（Fusarium）、隐球菌属（Cryptococcus）、淡紫紫霉属（Purpureocillium）、赤霉菌属 （Gibberella）、灵芝属（Ganoderma）。研究结果表明,菌草根际土真菌群落多样性高于非根际土,为进一步更好地利用菌草提供理论参考依据。     

Variation in prey selection and foraging success associated with early‐life ontogeny and habitat use of American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)

Many fishes are planktivorous during early life and switch to piscivory or consume larger food items as ontogeny progresses. In contrast, paddlefish start as particulate feeders and later become filter feeders. Few studies have identified food items essential for paddlefish growth, survival and recruitment surrounding this ontogenetic diet shift. The objectives of this study were to investigate (i) prey types consumed by paddlefish, (ii) variability in prey selection surrounding an ontogenetic diet shift and (iii) whether habitat affected paddlefish prey selection or foraging success. We analysed gut contents of 189 wild age‐0 paddlefish from the middle Mississippi River (MMR) and also conducted a laboratory experiment to address these objectives. We found that paddlefish primarily foraged on benthic macroinvertebrates in the MMR, which differed from previous studies in lentic systems, suggesting young paddlefish prey selection may be labile depending on habitat (i.e., lotic versus lentic). Dominant prey of wild‐caught and experimental age‐0 paddlefish were caddisfly larvae (Trichoptera), followed by hemipterans and amphipods. We found little evidence that habitat attributes affected foraging success, but the most common prey items consumed were associated with wing dike habitat and the upstream and downstream tips of alluvial islands. Our experimental study revealed that if provided a mixture of organisms, age‐0 paddlefish will primarily consume macroinvertebrates while age‐1 paddlefish will mainly filter zooplankton. Overall results suggest young paddlefish prey selection can be highly variable, but also heavily reliant on a narrow group of prey resources.     

Strong functional stability of soil microbial communities under semiarid Mediterranean conditions and subjected to long-term shifts in baseline precipitation

We investigated the effect of soil microclimate on the structure and functioning of soil microbial communities in a Mediterranean Holm-oak forest subjected to 10 years of partial rain exclusion manipulations, simulating average drought conditions expected in Mediterranean areas for the following decades. We applied a high throughput DNA pyrosequencing technique coupled to parallel measurements of microbial respiration (R_H) and temperature sensitivity of microbial respiration (Q₁₀). Some consistent changes in the structure of bacterial communities suggest a slow process of community shifts parallel to the trend towards oligotrophy in response to long-term droughts. However, the structure of bacterial communities was mainly determined by short-term environmental fluctuations associated with sampling date (winter, spring and summer) rather than long-term (10 years) shifts in baseline precipitation. Moreover, long-term drought did not exert any chronic effect on the functioning of soil microbial communities (R_H and Q₁₀), emphasizing the functional stability of these communities to this long-term but mild shifts in water availability. We hypothesize that the particular conditions of the Mediterranean climate with strong seasonal shifts in both temperature and soil water availability but also characterized by very extreme environmental conditions during summer, was acting as a strong force in community assembling, selecting phenotypes adapted to the semiarid conditions characterizing Mediterranean ecosystems. Relations of climate with the phylogenetic structure and overall diversity of the communities as well as the distribution of the individual responses of different lineages (genera) to climate confirmed our hypotheses, evidencing communities dominated by thermotolerant and drought-tolerant phenotypes.     

Artificial neural network modeling of microbial community structures in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Microbial communities vary across the landscape in forest soils, but prediction of their biomass and composition is a difficult challenge due to the large numbers of variables that influence their community structures. Here we examine the use of artificial neural network (ANN) models for extraction of patterns among soil chemical variables and microbial community structures in forest soils from three regions of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. At each location, variations in soil chemical properties and FAME profiles of microbial community structures were mapped at 20 × 20 m intervals within 10 ha parcels. Geostatistical analyses showed that spatial variability in soil physical and chemical variables could be mapped at scale distances of 20 m, but that FAME profiles representing the microbial communities were highly variable and had no spatial dependence at the same scale in most cases. RDA analysis showed that FAME signatures representing different microbial groups were positively associated with soil pH, OM, P and base cations concentrations, whereas microbial biomass was negatively associated with the same environmental factors. In contrast, ANN models revealed clear relationships between microbial community structures at each parcel location, and generated verifiable predictions of variations in FAME profiles in relation to soil pH, texture, and the relative abundances of base cations. The results suggest that ANN modeling provides a useful approach for describing the relationships between microbial community structures and soil properties in tropical forest soils that were not able to be captured using geostatistical and RDA analyses.     

覆膜种植年限柠檬园蜘蛛群落的影响*

【目的】覆膜种植作为一种重要的农作物栽培方式,在农业生产实践中被广泛应用。蜘蛛在生态系统中扮演着捕食者和指示生物等重要角色,了解覆膜种植年限对柠檬园蜘蛛群落的影响,对柠檬的科学种植和蜘蛛群落多样性保护及在生物防治中的应用具有积极意义。【方法】通过陷阱法和网扫法对覆膜种植年限0a(柠檬园I)、2a(柠檬园II)及4a(柠檬园III)的3种类型柠檬园蜘蛛群落进行调查。【结果】柠檬园I采集蜘蛛13科21种300头；柠檬园II采集蜘蛛9科17种159头；柠檬园III采集蜘蛛12科15种104头。蜘蛛多度和物种丰富度均随着覆膜年限的增加而降低。柠檬园I的蜘蛛群落结构与柠檬园II和III的不相似。【结论】覆膜种植对柠檬园蜘蛛群落多样性产生了消极影响,柠檬园蜘蛛群落多样性水平随着覆膜种植年限的增加而降低。     

间作栽培对宁夏南部山区马铃薯根际土壤真菌菌群结构的影响

根据宁夏南部山区气候和作物的生长特点，设计马铃薯‖玉米（P‖M，行比分别为4∶1，3∶2， 2∶3）、马铃薯‖蚕豆（P‖F，行比同前）、马铃薯不同品种（A‖B‖C，行比1∶1∶1）间作栽培模式，以马铃薯连作为对照，研究马铃薯根际土壤真菌多样性和菌群结构的变化，探寻能够减轻宁夏南部山区马铃薯连作障碍的有效栽培模式。采用基于18S rDNA的末端标记限制性片段长度多态性 (Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism，T-RFLP) 技术研究不同间作栽培模式下马铃薯根际土壤真菌的菌群结构和多样性变化，构建真菌ITS克隆文库，利用Genbank数据库比对各栽培模式中ITS序列的测序结果，并作群落结构组成和功能分析。结果表明，马铃薯间作栽培后真菌Shannon-Wiener指数和Simpson指数均有不同程度降低；马铃薯与玉米、蚕豆间作后根际土壤真菌的物种丰富度在门、纲和目的分类学水平上与连作相比明显下降，菌群结构发生较大变化，成熟期马铃薯‖玉米3∶2行比间作模式与连作的差异最大，属的比例下降67.74%。间作栽培后，黑孢属（Nigrospora）、地丝霉属（Geomyces）、圆盘菌属（Orbilia）、枝顶孢属（Acremonium）、四枝孢属（Tetracladium）等9个属的真菌消失，同时新增刺盘孢属（Colletotrichum）、毛壳属（Chaetomium）、巨孢囊霉属（Gigaspora）、小球腔菌属（Pleosporineae）等13个属的真菌，其中马铃薯‖玉米3∶2行比间作后巨孢囊霉属比例高达60.35%。可见，马铃薯‖玉米间作栽培能有效改善马铃薯根际土壤的真菌菌群结构，使其微环境得以改善，缓解宁夏南部山区马铃薯连作障碍。     

The microbial habitat in soil: Scale,heterogeneity and functional consequences

The microbial habitat is rarely studied in soil microbial ecology even though microbial cells are exposed and adapt to their local environmental conditions. The physical environment also constrains interactions among organisms. The nature of microbial communities and their functioning can only be fully understood if their habitat is accounted for. Here, I describe the soil microbial habitat and show how our understanding of microbial functioning has been shaped by this line of investigation.     

Soil conditions and land use intensification effects on soil microbial communities across a range of European field sites

Intensive land use practices necessary for providing food and raw materials are known to have a deleterious effect on soil. However, the effects that such practices have on soil microbes are less well understood. To investigate the effects of land use intensification on soil microbial communities we used a combined T-RFLP and pyrosequencing approach to study bacteria, archaea and fungi in spring and autumn at five long term observatories (LTOs) in Europe; each with a particular land use type and contrasting levels of intensification (low and high). Generally, due to large gradients in soil variables, both molecular methods revealed that soil microbial communities were structured according to differences in soil conditions between the LTOs, more so than land use intensity. Moreover, variance partitioning analysis also showed that soil properties better explained the differences in microbial communities than land use intensity effects. Predictable responses in dominant bacterial, archaeal and fungal taxa to edaphic conditions (e.g. soil pH and resource availability) were apparent between the LTOs. Some effects of land use intensification at individual field sites were observed. However, these effects were manifest when land use change affected soil conditions. Uniquely, this study details the responses of different microbial groups to soil type and land use intensification, and their relative importance across a range of European field sites. These findings reinforce our understanding of drivers impacting soil microbial community structure at both field and larger geographic scales.