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- Title
Clay-to-Carbon Ratio Controls the Effect of Herbicide Application on Soil Bacterial Richness and Diversity in a Loamy Field.
- Authors
Herath, H.; Moldrup, Per; Jonge, Lis; Nicolaisen, Mogens; Norgaard, Trine; Arthur, Emmanuel; Paradelo, Marcos
- Abstract
Soil texture and soil organic carbon (OC) influence the bacterial microenvironment and also control herbicide sorption. A field-scale exploratory study was conducted to investigate the potential interaction between soil texture parameters, herbicides, and soil bacterial richness and diversity. Glyphosate and bentazon were used to evaluate the herbicidal effect on bacterial community under different conditions created by clay and OC gradients in a loamy field. Metabarcoding by high-throughput sequencing of bacterial rDNA was used to estimate bacterial richness and diversity using OTUs, abundance-based coverage (ACE), Shannon diversity index, and phylogenetic diversity. In general, bacterial richness and diversity increased after bentazon application and decreased after glyphosate application. There was no significant effect for field locations with Dexter n (the ratio between clay and OC) values below 4.04 (the median of the values in the field study). The correlation coefficient ( r) between bacterial richness and clay decreased after bentazon application, but increased after glyphosate application. Correlations between Dexter n and bacterial indices followed the same pattern, decreasing after bentazon application and increasing after glyphosate application. This indicated that the specific chemical nature of individual herbicides affected bacterial communities. This study reinforced the importance of including soil physical and chemical characteristics to explain the influence of pesticides on the variation in soil bacterial communities in agroecosystems.
- Subjects
HERBICIDE application; CARBON; CLAY; BENTAZON; GLYPHOSATE; SOIL microbiology; BACTERIAL diversity; SOIL texture
- Publication
Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 2017, Vol 228, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0049-6979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11270-016-3175-6