Effects of plant post-fire persistence traits on soil microbial biomass and activity in Mediterranean shrublands
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor | Gestión de Ecosistemas y de la Biodiversidad (GEB) | es_ES |
dc.contributor.author | López-Poma, Rosario | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bautista, Susana | - |
dc.contributor.other | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ecología | es_ES |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-16T12:02:24Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-01-16T12:02:24Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | FLAMMA. 2014, 5(1): 52-55 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 2171-665X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/72535 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The strong relationships between plant and soil microbial communities suggest that post-fire vegetation may be a critical driver of the post-fire recovery of the structure and functioning of the soil microbial community. In this study, we conducted an experimental burning and evaluated the effect of the post-fire persistence traits of the vegetation (resprouter and seeder) on the medium-term (3 years after fire) post-fire response of the soil microbial activity in Mediterranean shrublands. The experiment was carried out in a Mediterranean shrubland (Eastern Spain), where four main types of microsites were selected: Bare-soil inter-patch (BS); Resprouter patch (R), Seeder patch (S), and Mixed patch (R+S). For each microsite, we analyzed soil basal respiration, water-soluble carbon, microbial biomass carbon, total organic carbon, and dehydrogenase activity at 0-5 cm soil depth. We also assessed plant cover dynamics. Our results suggest that, in general, fire impacts on soil microbial activity are not long-lasting, with most assessed soil variables being similar between burned and unburned areas three years after the fire. However, while the unburned microsites showed a trend in microbial biomass and activity from lower values in bare soils to higher values in R+S patches, these differences disappeared in the burned area, due to both a slight increase in microbial activity and biomass in bare soils, and the opposite response for soils under R+S patches. Our results highlight the role of the plant persistence trait in the microbial post-fire response of Mediterranean soils. | es_ES |
dc.language | eng | es_ES |
dc.publisher | FUEGORED | es_ES |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License | es_ES |
dc.subject | Dehydrogenase activity | es_ES |
dc.subject | Microbial biomass | es_ES |
dc.subject | Resprouter species | es_ES |
dc.subject | Seeder species | es_ES |
dc.subject | Soil basal respiration | es_ES |
dc.subject | Water soluble carbon | es_ES |
dc.subject.other | Ecología | es_ES |
dc.title | Effects of plant post-fire persistence traits on soil microbial biomass and activity in Mediterranean shrublands | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.peerreviewed | si | es_ES |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://sites.google.com/site/flammafgr/texto/volumen-5-2014/5-1-2014/5-1-13 | es_ES |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
Appears in Collections: | INV - GEB - Artículos de Revistas INV - DRYEX - Artículos de Revistas |
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