Soil life in reconstructed ecosystems: initial soil food web responses after rebuilding a forest soil profile for a climate change experiment

Paul T. Rygiewicz; Vicente Monleon; Elaine R. Ingham; Kendall J. Martin; Mark G. Johnson

doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.01.006

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Soil life in reconstructed ecosystems: initial soil food web responses after rebuilding a forest soil profile for a climate change experiment

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Authors:

Paul T. Rygiewicz, Vicente Monleon, Elaine R. Ingham, Kendall J. Martin, Mark G. Johnson

Year:

2010

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Pacific Northwest Research Station

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.01.006

Source:

Applied Soil Ecology. 45: 26-38

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Abstract

Disrupting ecosystem components, while transferring and reconstructing them for experiments can produce myriad responses. Establishing the extent of these biological responses as the system approaches a new equilibrium allows us more reliably to emulate comparable native systems. That is, the sensitivity of analyzing ecosystem processes in a reconstructed system is improved by excluding the period when observed phenomena are primarily responses caused by establishing the experiment rather than effects of imposed treatments; achieved by determining the extent of any pulse of activity caused by preparatory procedures.

Keywords

amoebae, atmospheric CO2 concentration, atmospheric temperature, bacterial biomass, climate change, flagellates, fungal biomass, nematodes, protozoa, soil physical distrubance

Citation

Rygiewicz, Paul T.; Monleon, Vicente J.; Ingham, Elaine R.; Martin, Kendall J.; Johnson, Mark G. 2010. Soil life in reconstructed ecosystems: initial soil food web responses after rebuilding a forest soil profile for a climate change experiment. Applied Soil Ecology. 45: 26-38.