Short-term nitrogen deposition changes chemical composition of litter and soil organic matter in a Moso bamboo forest

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202310.008

Abstract

Abstract: To investigate the effects of short-term nitrogen (N) deposition on organic matter composition of litter and soil in Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) forests, we established a N-addition treatments (50 kg N·hm^-2·a^-1) to simulate the ambient and N deposition in a subtropical Moso bamboo forest from July 2020 to January 2022. We analyzed the organic matter composition of Moso bamboo leaf/root litter and soil by using pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) technique. The results showed that short-term N deposition significantly increased the relative content of soil phenols by 50.9%, while significantly decreased fatty acids by 26.3%. The rela-tive content of alkanes & alkenes and lignin in leaf litter was significantly increased by 51.9% and 33.5%, respectively, while that of phenols and polysaccharides significantly decreased by 52.2% and 56.3%. In root litter, eleva-ted N significantly decreased the relative content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by 16.6%. Moreover, the relative content of fatty acids in soil organic matter was significantly positively correlated with the relative content of poly-saccharides in leaf litter. The relative content of phenols in soil organic matter was significantly positively correlated with the relative content of lignin, and negatively correlated with the relative content of polysaccharides in leaf litter. Our results demonstrated that short-term N deposition did not change the concentration of total organic carbon, total nitrogen, and C/N of the soil, leaf litter, and root litter, but significantly altered the chemical composition of organic matter. In addition, the changes in chemical composition of organic matter in soil under short-term N deposition were affected by the composition of organic matter in leaf litter.

Key words: short-term nitrogen deposition, soil organic matter, litter decomposition, pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) technology

WANG Yihuan, JIN Yidan, JIANG Mingkai, MA Shuqin, CHEN Youchao, CAI Yanjiang. Short-term nitrogen deposition changes chemical composition of litter and soil organic matter in a Moso bamboo forest[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2023, 34(10): 2593-2600.

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