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@ARTICLE{Polain:904462,
author = {Polain, Katherine and Knox, Oliver and Wilson, Brian and
Guppy, Christopher and Lisle, Leanne and Nachimuthu,
Gunasekhar and Osanai, Yui and Siebers, Nina},
title = {{D}istribution of subsoil microbial activity and biomass
under {A}ustralian rotational cotton as influenced by
system, crop status and season},
journal = {Soil research},
volume = {59},
number = {6},
issn = {0004-9573},
address = {Collingwood, Victoria},
publisher = {CSIRO},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-06032},
pages = {547 -},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Soils provide the substrate for important microbial
mechanisms that moderate a variety of processes in both
managed and natural terrestrial ecosystems. Australian soils
are particularly ‘stressed’ and are considered to be
highly weathered and nutrient deficient. This places
increased pressure on the Australian cotton industry to
sustainably increase productivity to support the fibre
demands of a growing global population. We explored Vertosol
subsoils (>30 cm) under rotational cotton crops, measuring
the distribution of soil microbial activity (SMA) and
biomass (SMB) to 100 cm depth, as influenced by crop system
and time, using respiration-based experiments. Seasonal SMA
fluctuations were considered by capturing the long-term SMA
between systems using stable oxygen isotope methodology. Our
results indicate that subsoils contributed $47\%$ of SMA,
regardless of system, but subsoil SMB $(26\%)$ was
constrained by resource availability. Long-term SMA was not
significantly influenced by depth and system, presumably as
a consequence of the shrink–swell nature of Vertosols
facilitating organic matter movement down the profile. The
impact of this organic matter on the activity of indigenous
microorganisms below the top 30 cm of the profile highlights
a need to consider deeper soil when unravelling the
potential microbial benefits to our cropping systems.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {640},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {2173 - Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000555581500001},
doi = {10.1071/SR19335},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904462},
}