Fire affects the taxonomic and functional composition of soil microbial communities, with cascading effects on grassland ecosystem functioning.

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Abstract
Fire is a crucial event regulating the structure and functioning of many ecosystems. Yet few studies have focused on how fire affects taxonomic and functional diversity of soil microbial communities, along with changes in plant communities and soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics. Here, we analyze these effects in a grassland ecosystem nine-months after an experimental fire at the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment (JRGCE) site in California, USA. Fire altered soil microbial communities considerably, with community assembly process analysis showing that environmental selection pressure was higher in burned sites. However, a small subset of highly connected taxa were able to withstand the disturbance. In addition, fire decreased the relative abundances of most functional genes associated with C degradation and N cycling, implicating a slow-down of microbial processes linked to soil C and N dynamics. In contrast, fire stimulated above- and below-ground plant growth, likely enhancing plant-microbe competition for soil inorganic N, which was reduced by a factor of about 2. To synthesize those findings, we performed structural equation modeling, which showed that plants but not microbial communities were responsible for significantly higher soil respiration rates in burned sites. Together, our results demonstrate that fire "reboots" the grassland ecosystem by differentially regulating plant and soil microbial communities, leading to significant changes in soil C and N dynamics.
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Authors Yang, Sihang;Zheng, Qiaoshu;Yang, Yunfeng;Yuan, Mengting;Ma, Xingyu;Chiariello, Nona R;Docherty, Kathryn M;Field, Christopher B;Gutknecht, Jessica L M;Hungate, Bruce A;Niboyet, Audrey;Le Roux, Xavier;Zhou, Jizhong;
Journal Global change biology
Year 2019
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10.1111/gcb.14852
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climate change high-throughput sequencing microbial communities fire californian grasslands geochip

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