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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2017, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (10): 3251-3259.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.201710.009

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Effects of short-term elevated CO2 concentration and drought stress on the rhizosphere effects of soil carbon, nitrogen and microbes of Bothriochloa ischaemum.

XIAO Lie1, LIU Guo-bin2,3, LI Peng1, XUE Sha2,3*   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-hydraulic Engineering in Arid Area, Xi’an University of Technology, Xi’an 710048, China;
    2. State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China;
    3. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Science and Ministry of Water Resource, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2017-04-10 Revised:2017-07-27 Online:2017-10-18 Published:2017-10-18
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    This work was supported by the Program for West Younger Scholar, Chinese Academy of Sciences (XAB2015A05) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41371510, 41371508, 41471438).

Abstract: A water-control pot experiment was conducted in climate-controlled chambers to study soil carbon, nitrogen and microbial community structure and their rhizosphere effects in the rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil of Bothriochloa ischaemum at elevated CO2 concentrations (800 μmol·mol-1) under three water regimes, i.e., well watered (75%-80% of field capacity, FC), moderate drought stress (55%-60% of FC), and severe drought stress (35%-40% of FC). The results showed that elevated CO2 concentration and drought stress did not have significant impacts on the content of soil organic carbon, total nitrogen or dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the rhizosphere and bulk soils or their rhizosphere effects. Elevated CO2 concentration significantly decreased dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) content in the rhizosphere soil under moderate drought stress, increased DOC/DON, and significantly increased the negative rhizosphere effect of DON and positive rhizosphere effect of DOC/DON. Drought stress and elevated CO2 concentration did not have significant impacts on the rhizosphere effect of total and bacterial phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA). Drought stress under elevated CO2 concentration significantly increased the G+/G- PLFA in the rhizosphere soil and decreased the G+/G- PLFA in the bulk soil, so its rhizosphere effect significantly increased, indicating that the soil microbial community changed from chemoautotroph microbes to heterotrophic microbes.