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@ARTICLE{Hnninghaus:830215,
author = {Hünninghaus, Maike and Koller, Robert and Kramer, Susanne
and Marhan, Sven and Kandeler, Ellen and Bonkowski, Michael},
title = {{C}hanges in bacterial community composition and soil
respiration indicate rapid successions of protist grazers
during mineralization of maize crop residues},
journal = {Pedobiologia},
volume = {62},
issn = {0031-4056},
address = {München},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-03789},
pages = {1 - 8},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Decomposition of organic matter is crucial for ecosystem
functioning. Microorganisms, which areresponsible for the
mineralization of organic matter, are usually treated as a
homogeneous functionalguild, despite mineralization capacity
can differ profoundly between taxa. In addition, a
significant partof the microbial community is top-down
controlled by microbial grazers, such as protist. Since
protistgrazing is selective, and selectivity differs among
species, we hypothesized that protist taxa complementeach
other in grazing intensity and thereby affect bacterial
community structure and mineralization rate.In a laboratory
experiment the species richness of protist communities was
manipulated in an arable fieldsoil and the mineralization
rate of maize litter residues followed during the
decomposition of the labile(4 days) and recalcitrant (3
weeks) carbon (C) fractions. Mineralization rate overall
increased in thepresence of protists. Changes in microbial
function could be related to changes in microbial
communitycomposition (measured by phospholipid fatty acids
pattern). During microbial decomposition, differentprotist
grazers gained influence on mineralization rates over
consecutive time intervals, indicating that asuccession of
protists caused an enhanced bacterial C-mineralization of
plant detritus. Protist identityand species richness
affected the microbial community composition, but not the
magnitude of itsmineralization function. In general, protist
identity appeared to be more relevant for the composition
ofthe microbial communities at the beginning of
decomposition while the protist species richnessappeared to
be more critical in the later, slow phase of decomposition.
This study provides an examplethat the overall outcome of
ecosystem processes, such as mineralization rate is
regulated by the sum ofpositive and negative effects of
complex species interactions operating at a very fine
spatial and temporalscales.},
cin = {IBG-2},
ddc = {570},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118},
pnm = {582 - Plant Science (POF3-582)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-582},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000403634700001},
doi = {10.1016/j.pedobi.2017.03.002},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/830215},
}