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- Title
Effects of phosphorus addition with and without nitrogen addition on biological nitrogen fixation in tropical legume and non-legume tree plantations.
- Authors
Zheng, Mianhai; Li, Dejun; Lu, Xing; Zhu, Xiaomin; Zhang, Wei; Huang, Juan; Fu, Shenglei; Lu, Xiankai; Mo, Jiangming
- Abstract
It is well documented that phosphorus (P) input stimulates biological nitrogen (N) fixation (BNF) in tropical forests with non-legume trees. However, in tropical legume forests with soil N enrichment and P deficiency, the effects of P availability and its combination with N on BNF remain poorly understood. In this study, we measured BNF rate in different compartments, i.e., bulk soil, forest floor, rhizosphere, and nodules, in two tropical plantations with legume trees Acacia auriculiformis ( AA) versus non-legume trees Eucalyptus urophylla, ( EU) in southern China after 4 years of P addition and combined N and P additions. The objective was to investigate how P addition and its combination with N addition regulate BNF in a tropical legume plantation, and to compare the effects with those in a non-legume plantation. Our results showed that total BNF rates were significantly higher in the P-addition plots than in the control plots by 27.4 ± 4.3 and 23.3 ± 1.7 % in the EU and AA plantations, respectively. Total BNF rates were significantly higher in the NP-addition plots than in the control plots by 27.7 ± 5.0 and 8.5 ± 1.4 % in the EU and AA plantations, respectively, which contrasted to our previous result that total BNF rates were significantly lower in N-addition plots than in the control plots in the AA plantation. These findings suggest that P input can stimulate BNF in tropical forest biome dominated by legume trees, even in consideration of elevated atmospheric N deposition. Thus, our study revealed the important role of P in regulating biological N input, which should be taken into account in the modeling of biogeochemical cycles in the future.
- Subjects
LEGUMES; PLANTATIONS; NITROGEN fixation; CHEMICAL composition of plants; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT-soil relationships
- Publication
Biogeochemistry, 2016, Vol 131, Issue 1-2, p65
- ISSN
0168-2563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10533-016-0265-x