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@ARTICLE{Beule:863566,
author = {Beule, Lukas and Corre, Marife D. and Schmidt, Marcus and
Göbel, Leonie and Veldkamp, Edzo and Karlovsky, Petr},
title = {{C}onversion of monoculture cropland and open grassland to
agroforestry alters the abundance of soil bacteria, fungi
and soil-{N}-cycling genes},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {14},
number = {6},
issn = {1932-6203},
address = {San Francisco, California, US},
publisher = {PLOS},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-03605},
pages = {e0218779 -},
year = {2019},
abstract = {Integration of trees in agroforestry systems can increase
the system sustainability compared to monocultures. The
resulting increase in system complexity is likely to affect
soil-N cycling by altering soil microbial community
structure and functions. Our study aimed to assess the
abundance of genes encoding enzymes involved in soil-N
cycling in paired monoculture and agroforestry cropland in a
Phaeozem soil, and paired open grassland and agroforestry
grassland in Histosol and Anthrosol soils. The soil
fungi-to-bacteria ratio was greater in the tree row than in
the crop or grass rows of the monoculture cropland and open
grassland in all soil types, possibly due to increased input
of tree residues and the absence of tillage in the Phaeozem
(cropland) soil. In the Phaeozem (cropland) soil, gene
abundances of amoA indicated a niche differentiation between
archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers that distinctly
separated the influence of the tree row from the crop row
and monoculture system. Abundances of nitrate (napA and
narG), nitrite (nirK and nirS) and nitrous oxide reductase
genes (nosZ clade I) were largely influenced by soil type
rather than management system. The soil types’ effects
were associated with their differences in soil organic C,
total N and pH. Our findings show that in temperate regions,
conversion of monoculture cropland and open grassland to
agroforestry systems can alter the abundance of soil
bacteria and fungi and soil-N-cycling genes, particularly
genes involved in ammonium oxidation.},
ddc = {610},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0218779},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/863566},
}