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Effects of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) invasions on soil nitrogen cycles depend on invasion stage and warming

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Plant invasions may alter soil nutrient cycling due to differences in physiological traits between the invader and species they displace as well as differences in responses to anthropogenic factors such as nitrogen deposition and warming. Moso bamboo is expanding its range rapidly around the world, displacing diverse forests. In addition, near expansion fronts where invasions are patchy, moso bamboo and other species each contribute soil inputs. Nitrogen transformations and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are important processes associated with nutrient availability and climate change that may be impacted by bamboo invasions. We collected soils from uninvaded, mixed, and bamboo forests to understand bamboo invasion effects on carbon and N cycling. We incubated soils with warming and N addition and measured net nitrification and N mineralization rates and GHG (CO2 and N2O) emissions. Mixed forest soils had higher pH and total N and lower total organic carbon and C/N than either uninvaded or bamboo forest soils. Bamboo forest soils had higher total carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and ammonium N but lower total and nitrate N than uninvaded forest soils. Soil GHG emissions did not vary among forest types at lower temperatures but bamboo forest soils had higher CO2 and lower N2O emissions at higher temperatures. While net N transformation rates were lower in bamboo and uninvaded forest soils, they were highest in mixed forest soils, indicating non-additive effects of bamboo invasions. This suggests that plant invasion effects on N transformations and GHG emissions with global change in forests partially invaded by bamboo are difficult to predict from only comparing uninvaded and bamboo-dominated areas.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Gan-Po 555 Talent Project Funding of Jiangxi Province, the Research Foundation and Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Jiangxi Agricultural University (09005172 and 9232306047) and the High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Program (GDW20157200307). We acknowledge the reviewers for their insightful comments and the Lushan National Forest Ecosystem Research Station and Lushan National Nature Reserve for the field work support.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Silviculture, Co-Innovation Center of Jiangxi Typical Trees Cultivation and Utilization, College of Forestry, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China

    Zhenzhen Li, Ling Zhang, Bangliang Deng, Yuanqiu Liu, Guoxian Huang, Qian Liu & Xiaomin Guo

  2. Lushan National Forest Ecosystem Research Station, Jiujiang, 332900, China

    Ling Zhang, Yuanqiu Liu, Fanqian Kong, Guoxian Huang & Qin Zou

  3. Lushan National Nature Reserve, Jiujiang, 332900, China

    Fanqian Kong & Qin Zou

  4. Comprehensive Law Enforcement Divisions of Farming and Animal Husbandry, Chifeng, 024000, China

    Yanqiu Fu

  5. College of Land Resources and Environment, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, 330045, China

    Dekui Niu

  6. Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA

    Evan Siemann

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Li, Z., Zhang, L., Deng, B. et al. Effects of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) invasions on soil nitrogen cycles depend on invasion stage and warming. Environ Sci Pollut Res 24, 24989–24999 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-017-0186-9

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