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The objectives of this study were to investigate the influence of plants on net methane flux from forest and grassland soils depending on bedrock, temperature, and plant species, and to determine the abundance of methanogenic and methanotrophic microorganisms.
Forest and grassland soils had a high potential to consume methane under ambient conditions. Irrespective of bedrock and plant species, a highly significant influence of temperature was established. The studied site-specific grassland plants Plantago lanceolata and Poa pratensis significantly increased methane balance with varying extent depending on temperature. In contrast, the studied forest plants Picea abies and especially Larix decidua significantly boosted methane consumption. The flux measurements pointed to higher net methane consumption rates on limestone compared to siliceous bedrock. The proportion of Euryarchaeota -including methanogens- increased in rhizosphere soil of grassland plants compared to bulk soil whereas methanotrophic abundances did not differ between bulk and rhizosphere soil.
1) CH4 flux in upland soils is influenced by temperature, bedrock, and plants. 2) Effects of plants on CH4 flux are species-dependent. 3) Plant-specific differences are also reflected within the community composition of Archaea and the abundance of methanotrophic Bacteria in the rhizosphere.
Figure 1 summarizes methane concentrations from all variants with and without plant coverage and from both bedrocks resulting in partially great standard deviations. Irrespective of plant species and vegetation types, a highly significant influence of temperature on net CH4 concentrations from upland soils under atmospheric CH4 conditions could be established (***P
Unfortunately, DNA extraction and amplification of rhizosphere samples of tree seedlings did not lead to reliable results and were thus omitted. In case of grassland plants a total of 765,753 sequences reads for Archaea were obtained from Illumina sequencing. After initial quality processing and denoizing, 26,030 archaeal sequences were included in OTU analysis. Of these sequences, 68.61 % could be classified into the Euryarchaeota phylum while 12.78 % belonged to Crenarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota and 18.61 % were assigned as unclassified Archaea. Crenarchaeota and Thaumarchaeota were combined to the lately suggested superphylum Proteoarchaeota (Petitjean et al. 2014) including Diapherotrites and Pacearchaeota in this case as well. OTU assignment at 97 % identity level resulted in 2478 OTUs. For downstream analysis and to compare archaeal community structure in bulk and rhizosphere soils from both grassland sites, sequences in each sample were reduced to 1409 reads which was the smallest number of sequences in any of the six samples. Coverage values between 0.86 and 0.90 were obtained, indicating between 86 and 90 % species detection rates. OTUs representing less than 0.10 % of the relative abundance were clustered as were OTUs at the same genus level. Archaeal community analysis revealed clear differences within the community composition of the investigated soils (Fig. 4). Differences within the archaeal community were primarily caused by the two different soil sites, followed by the influence of the plants. Plant species led to different archaeal community shifts within the respective rhizospheres, with distinctly greater changes on siliceous bedrock. NGS showed a dominance of Methanosarcina sp. on silicate and Methanosaeta sp. on limestone. The proportion of Euryarchaeota increased within the rhizosphere soil of the plants whereas Proteoarchaeota decreased. On silicate bedrock, Methanosarcina sp., Methanosaeta sp., Methanobacterium sp., and Methanoculleus sp. significantly increased within the rhizosphere fraction of the two investigated grasses compared to bulk soil whereas the proportion of unclassified Proteoarchaeota distinctly decreased. The increase in abundance of Methanosarcina sp. was significantly more pronounced in the rhizosphere of P. lanceolata. On limestone Methanobacterium sp. became significantly and Methanosaeta sp. became slightly (p = 0.052) more dominant in the rhizosphere of the investigated grassland plants than in bulk soils.
Relative abundance [%] of archaeal OTUs classified on genus level within bulk and rhizosphere soil of P. pratensis or P. lanceolata on silicate and limestone bedrock analyzed via MiSeq Illumina sequencing. OTUs
In the current study, qPCR was used to quantify the methanotrophic pmoA gene copies in bulk and rhizosphere soil samples of the grassland study sites. Only a small variation in pmoA gene copy numbers was found in the studied grassland soil samples, ranging from 3.87x107 and 1.61x108 copies per gram dry soil. Thus, no significant difference in methanotrophic abundances was found between soils from bulk and rhizosphere, irrespective of plant species and bedrock type.
In this study, we examined the impact of (1) temperature, (2) bedrock, (3) vegetation type, and (4) plants on net methane flux of upland soils. Our results showed that soils, regardless of vegetation type, were a net sink for CH4, but under certain conditions CH4 production could be observed as well and that the consumption capacity of soils varied according to temperature and plant coverage. In the context of changing climate conditions, possible impacts of temperature increase are intensively discussed (Gobiet et al. 2014; Thornton et al. 2014). In relation to the global relevance of the greenhouse gas methane an important question is whether and how CH4 dynamics in soils are influenced by abiotic and biotic parameters, e.g., warming and land use (Bodelier and Steenbergh 2014; Tate 2015). Due to the huge area of upland soils, even very low methane flux rates will become relevant and detailed information about the influence of plants on methane fluxes could contribute to future climate models.
In our study, temperature had a significant effect on net methane balance above grassland soils leading to considerable consumption rates while the effect was less pronounced above forest soils. In case of grassland soils, net methane balances were more negative at increasing temperature, regardless of plant species and bedrock which might be caused by the fact that grassland soils are generally faced with higher temperature fluctuations compared to forest soils. Of course, the highest of the three temperatures tested (i.e. 37 C) within the present investigation does not represent standard soil temperatures but might be possible in soils under certain conditions as especially the upper soil layers easily heat up in summer and can reach high temperatures (Song et al. 2013). A further idea behind applying higher temperatures was to reach a temperature range more suitable for methanogens (Le Mer and Roger 2001) and -in combination with psychrophilic and mesophilic temperatures- to investigate quite great temperature steps which should indicate the direction of temperature caused effects.
Lab-scale gas measurements were repeated for grassland sites under methane enriched conditions (1 % v/v). The rationale of applying higher methane concentrations is that in previous studies it was shown that methane production potentials reached up to 1 % CH4 (Hofmann et al. 2016; Praeg et al. 2014; Wagner et al. 2012). Thus, it was of our interest to study whether the influences of temperature, plants, and bedrock type on net methane balance are changed or remain under elevated methane concentrations. It was shown that under methane enriched conditions again temperature was a crucial parameter that significantly influenced net methane balances reaching the most negative mean methane balance at 25 C. Results were similar to those derived under ambient CH4 concentrations and showed that high CH4 concentrations which might be present in anaerobic microhabitats of soils led to comparable, yet not identical results. Under ambient methane concentration grassland plant species differed in how they influenced CH4 flux. This species-related difference was not observed any longer under methane enriched conditions. Thus, the importance of plant species for CH4 flux in arable soils might decrease with increased CH4 concentration.
Restults of Illumina MiSeq sequencing of the archaeal 16S rRNA genes revealed that archaeal community structure differed between the two investigated grassland sites. Samples from soil roots of tree species did not lead to reliable results, possibly because too less soil adhered to the roots, and data were thus omitted and the following description of archaeal community composition refers to grassland roots only. Our data demonstrated a difference between the sites and also between bulk soil and rhizosphere soil of the investigated grassland plants. Archaeal community structure within the rhizosphere was shifted to a higher abundance of Euryarchaeota while the proportion of Proteoarchaeota decreased. This rhizosphere effect was more pronounced on siliceous bedrock than on limestone. Consequently, the effect of soil dominates on limestone while the influence of the fractions prevailed on soil from silicate bedrock. As the changes within the abundances of Archaea in fractions and sites do not give any information about the activity, the interpretation in combination with the gas measurement results is hardly possible. Nevertheless, the higher proportion of methane-producing Euryarchaeota corresponds with the significant higher methane balance at 25 C of soils covered with P. lanceolata or P. pratensis compared to uncovered soil. qPCR results indicated that regardless of bedrock type, plant species, and soil fraction the abundance of methanotrophic microorganisms was similar in all grassland samples. Our results show that methanotrophic bacteria are important members of the soil community, present in numbers of about 107 to 108 pmoA gene copies per gram dry weight of soil. The measured abundance is comparable to population sizes of methanotrophs found in other upland soils ranging from 105 to 107 cells per gram dry weight of soil (Willison et al. 1997; Horz et al. 2002). qPCR results and the measured methane fluxes emphasize that methanotrophs are apparently of ecological relevance concerning CH4 uptake. We hypothesize that the different net-methane balances could thus either be traced back to the abundance and activity of methanogens and/or different cell-specific methanotrophic activities.
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