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cje ›› 2009, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (10): 2002-2008.

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Effects of Miscanthus floridulus inhabitation on microbial community structure in mine tailings.

CHEN You-jing;CHEN Jia-yuan;YANG Jing-dan;ZHANG Chong-bang   

  1. School of Life Sciences, Taizhou College, Linhai 317000, Zhejiang, China
  • Online:2009-11-10 Published:2009-11-10

Abstract: Five sampling sites of mine tailings inhabited by Miscanthus floridulus with the coverage of 0, 17%, 41%, 71%, and 89% were selected to analyze the ynamics of microbial community structure and its relationships with mine tailings’ physical and chemical properties, heavy metals contents, and plant biomass. With the inhabitation of M. floridulus, the mine tailings’ organic carbon, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, NH4+-N, NO3--N, and available phosphorus contents, ggregate stability, and maximum waterholding capacity increased significantly, but the total and DTPAextractable heavy metals contents  significantly decreased. The principal component analysis indicated that the microbial community structure changed significantly with the inhabitation of M. floridulus. The Grampositive bacterial fatty acids, Gramnegative bacterial fatty acids, fungal fatty acid, actinomycete fatty acid, mycorrhizal fatty acids (16∶1ω5c and 20∶3ω3), algal fatty acids, and microbial community diversity (ShannonWiener index) all increased significantly and had significant positive correlations with the mine tailings’ total nitrogen, NO3--N and available phosphorus contents, aggregate stability, and the aboveground and belowground biomass of M. floridulus. Only the Gramnegative bacterial and mycorrizal phospholipid fatty acids were negatively correlated with mine tailings’ DTPAextractable Cu content.

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