Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem. Geyer, K. M., Takacs-Vesbach, C. D., Gooseff, M. N., & Barrett, J. E. Peerj, 5:18, July, 2017. ![Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Primary production is the fundamental source of energy to foodwebs and ecosystems, and is thus an important constraint on soil communities. This coupling is particularly evident in polar terrestrial ecosystems where biological diversity and activity is tightly constrained by edaphic gradients of productivity (e.g., soil moisture, organic carbon availability) and geochemical severity (e.g., pH, electrical conductivity). In the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, environmental gradients determine numerous properties of soil communities and yet relatively few estimates of gross or net primary productivity (GPP, NPP) exist for this region. Here we describe a survey utilizing pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) fluorometry to estimate rates of GPP across a broad environmental gradient along with belowground microbial diversity and decomposition. PAM estimates of GPP ranged from an average of 0.27 mmol O-2/m(2)/s in the most arid soils to an average of 6.97 mmol O-2/m(2)/s in themost productive soils, the latter equivalent to 217 g C/m(2) /y in annual NPP assuming a 60 day growing season. A diversity index of four carbon-acquiring enzyme activities also increased with soil productivity, suggesting that the diversity of organic substrates in mesic environments may be an additional driver of microbial diversity. Overall, soil productivity was a stronger predictor of microbial diversity and enzymatic activity than any estimate of geochemical severity. These results highlight the fundamental role of environmental gradients to control community diversity and the dynamics of ecosystem-scale carbon pools in arid systems.
@article{geyer_primary_2017,
title = {Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem},
volume = {5},
issn = {2167-8359},
shorttitle = {Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem},
url = {://WOS:000406376700011},
doi = {10.7717/peerj.3377},
abstract = {Primary production is the fundamental source of energy to foodwebs and ecosystems, and is thus an important constraint on soil communities. This coupling is particularly evident in polar terrestrial ecosystems where biological diversity and activity is tightly constrained by edaphic gradients of productivity (e.g., soil moisture, organic carbon availability) and geochemical severity (e.g., pH, electrical conductivity). In the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, environmental gradients determine numerous properties of soil communities and yet relatively few estimates of gross or net primary productivity (GPP, NPP) exist for this region. Here we describe a survey utilizing pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) fluorometry to estimate rates of GPP across a broad environmental gradient along with belowground microbial diversity and decomposition. PAM estimates of GPP ranged from an average of 0.27 mmol O-2/m(2)/s in the most arid soils to an average of 6.97 mmol O-2/m(2)/s in themost productive soils, the latter equivalent to 217 g C/m(2) /y in annual NPP assuming a 60 day growing season. A diversity index of four carbon-acquiring enzyme activities also increased with soil productivity, suggesting that the diversity of organic substrates in mesic environments may be an additional driver of microbial diversity. Overall, soil productivity was a stronger predictor of microbial diversity and enzymatic activity than any estimate of geochemical severity. These results highlight the fundamental role of environmental gradients to control community diversity and the dynamics of ecosystem-scale carbon pools in arid systems.},
language = {English},
journal = {Peerj},
author = {Geyer, K. M. and Takacs-Vesbach, C. D. and Gooseff, M. N. and Barrett, J. E.},
month = jul,
year = {2017},
keywords = {McMurdo Dry Valleys, ross sea, southern victoria land, taylor valley, production, community, gradients, organic-matter, Science \& Technology - Other Topics, antarctic dry valley, Biogeochemistry, co2 flux, continental antarctica, electron-transport, Environmental, Microbial ecology, modulation pam fluorometry, Primary, Pulse amplitude modulation fluorometry, rates},
pages = {18}
}
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