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T1 - Intensive grassland management disrupts below-ground multi-trophic resource transfer in response to drought
AU - Chomel, Mathilde
AU - Lavallee, Jocelyn M.
AU - Alvarez-Segura, Nil
AU - Baggs, Elizabeth M.
AU - Caruso, Tancredi
AU - de Castro, Francisco
AU - Emmerson, Mark C.
AU - Magilton, Matthew
AU - Rhymes, Jennifer M.
AU - de Vries, Franciska T.
AU - Johnson, David
AU - Bardgett, Richard D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s). M1 - 6991
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - Modification of soil food webs by land management may alter the response of ecosystem processes to climate extremes, but empirical support is limited and the mechanisms involved remain unclear. Here we quantify how grassland management modifies the transfer of recent photosynthates and soil nitrogen through plants and soil food webs during a post-drought period in a controlled field experiment, using in situ 13C and 15N pulse-labelling in intensively and extensively managed fields. We show that intensive management decrease plant carbon (C) capture and its transfer through components of food webs and soil respiration compared to extensive management. We observe a legacy effect of drought on C transfer pathways mainly in intensively managed grasslands, by increasing plant C assimilation and 13C released as soil CO2 efflux but decreasing its transfer to roots, bacteria and Collembola. Our work provides insight into the interactive effects of grassland management and drought on C transfer pathways, and highlights that capture and rapid transfer of photosynthates through multi-trophic networks are key for maintaining grassland resistance to drought.
AB - Modification of soil food webs by land management may alter the response of ecosystem processes to climate extremes, but empirical support is limited and the mechanisms involved remain unclear. Here we quantify how grassland management modifies the transfer of recent photosynthates and soil nitrogen through plants and soil food webs during a post-drought period in a controlled field experiment, using in situ 13C and 15N pulse-labelling in intensively and extensively managed fields. We show that intensive management decrease plant carbon (C) capture and its transfer through components of food webs and soil respiration compared to extensive management. We observe a legacy effect of drought on C transfer pathways mainly in intensively managed grasslands, by increasing plant C assimilation and 13C released as soil CO2 efflux but decreasing its transfer to roots, bacteria and Collembola. Our work provides insight into the interactive effects of grassland management and drought on C transfer pathways, and highlights that capture and rapid transfer of photosynthates through multi-trophic networks are key for maintaining grassland resistance to drought.
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-022-34449-5
DO - 10.1038/s41467-022-34449-5
M3 - Journal article
VL - 13
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 6991
ER -