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Significance of temperature and water availability for soil phosphorus transformation and microbial community composition as affected by fertilizer sources

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Little is known about the effects of temperature and drying–rewetting on soil phosphorus (P) fractions and microbial community composition in regard to different fertilizer sources. Soil P dynamics and microbial community properties were evaluated in a soil not fertilized or fertilized with KH2PO4 or swine manure at two temperatures (10 and 25 °C) and two soil water regimes (continuously moist and drying–rewetting cycles) in laboratory microcosm assays. The P source was the dominant factor determining the sizes of labile P fractions and microbial community properties. Manure fertilization increased the content of labile P, microbial biomass, alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity, and fatty acid contents, whereas KH2PO4 fertilization increased the content of labile inorganic P and microbial P. Water regimes, second to fertilization in importance, affected more labile P pools, microbial biomass, alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity, and fatty acid contents than temperature. Drying–rewetting cycles increased labile P pools, decreased microbial biomass and alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity, and shaped the composition of microbial communities towards those with greater percentages of unsaturated fatty acids, particularly at 25 °C in manure-fertilized soils. Microbial C and P dynamics responded differentially to drying–rewetting cycles in manure-fertilized soils but not in KH2PO4-fertilized soils, suggesting their decoupling because of P sources and water regimes. Phosphorus sources, temperature, and water regimes interactively affected the labile organic P pool in the middle of incubation. Overall, P sources and water availability had greater effects on P dynamics and microbial community properties than temperature.

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This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (41571130061), Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (B) (XDB15020402), and the National Basic Research Program (973 Program) of China (2013CB127403).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Subtropical Soil Science and Plant Nutrition of Zhejiang Province, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, People’s Republic of China

    Dasheng Sun, Qingfang Bi, Kejie Li, Weiwei Zhou, Ting Lv, Xipeng Liu, Jun Zhu, Chongwei Jin, Lingli Lu & Xianyong Lin

  2. MOE Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, People’s Republic of China

    Dasheng Sun, Chongwei Jin, Lingli Lu & Xianyong Lin

  3. Department of Applied Engineering, Zhejiang Economic and Trade Polytechnic, Hangzhou, 310018, People’s Republic of China

    Peibin Dai

  4. School of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People’s Republic of China

    Yan Yu

  5. Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, People’s Republic of China

    Qichun Zhang

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Sun, D., Bi, Q., Li, K. et al. Significance of temperature and water availability for soil phosphorus transformation and microbial community composition as affected by fertilizer sources. Biol Fertil Soils 54, 229–241 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-017-1252-7

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