摘要
青藏高原是我国生态安全的重要屏障,但目前青藏高原上大尺度上的微生物地理学研究还很缺乏.因此,采用高通量测序技术,在跨越2121 km的尺度上针对高寒草地不同生态系统类型研究了土壤原核生物(细菌和古菌)微生物量、多样性和群落组成的分布格局,及与气候、植物和土壤因子的关系.在高寒草甸、高寒草原、高寒灌丛和高寒荒漠中,高寒荒漠具有最低的微生物多样性,而高寒草甸具有最高的微生物量碳.高寒草地土壤微生物的多样性与大气温度而非降水显著相关,说明其在高寒条件下可能受温度而非水分控制.微生物多样性随耦合了水、热要素的干旱指数的增加而降低,解释量比单一要素更高.此外,植物功能群多样性与微生物多样性有显著的正相关关系,解释量比植物物种多样性更高.结构方程模型显示,干旱指数和年均温通过影响植物功能群多样性和地上生物量而改变土壤表层的碳氮比,从而直接或间接影响到微生物多样性.与多样性不同,土壤微生物量碳与可溶性有机碳、氨态氮、速效磷及碳氮比等土壤营养指标和植物地上生物量具有显著的相关性.这些结果意味着微生物多样性和微生物量可能有着不同的控制因子;随着未来青藏高原的"暖湿化",干旱指数的降低可能提高土壤微生物的多样性.
As an indicator and regulator of climate and environmental change, the Tibetan Plateau is an important barrier for ecological security. However, despite the importance of soil microbial communities in almost all soil biochemical processes and ecosystem functions, the biogeography of soil microbial communities on the Tibetan Plateau is poorly understood, especially at large scales over different ecosystem types. In this study, we collected samples from 64 sampling sites representing different grassland ecosystem types and spanning 2121 km across on the Tibetan Plateau. We then used next generation high-throughput sequencing to investigate the soil prokaryote community(i.e. bacteria and archaea) diversity and spatial patterns and to explore their relationship with biotic(e.g. plant functional group diversity and biomass) and abiotic(e.g. aridity index, soil carbon and nitrogen levels) factors. Among the four alpine grassland types(i.e. alpine meadow, alpine steppe, alpine shrub and alpine desert) sampled in this study, alpine meadow had the highest soil microbial biomass and alpine desert had the lowest soil microbial richness and Shannon diversity. The soil microbial diversity in the alpine grassland correlated with plant diversity and climate factors. Soil microbial diversity negatively correlated with the annual average air temperature, but was not correlated with the annual average precipitation, indicating that temperature, rather than precipitation, may be more important in controlling the soil microbial diversity in alpine grassland ecosystems at cold temperatures. Higher air temperature likely led to an intensified aridity under limited precipitation, and thus decreased microbial diversity. As a result, the aridity index combined with temperature and precipitation explained more of the variance in the soil microbial diversity than air temperature or precipitation did individually.Moreover, after separating plant species into four functional groups(grass, forb, legume and sedge), microbial diversity positively correlated with plant functional group diversity, explaining more of the variance in microbial diversity than plant species diversity did. Results of structural equation modeling revealed that the aridity index and annual air temperature affected soil microbial diversity, directly or indirectly, through influencing plant functional group diversity and aboveground biomass; while aboveground biomass changed the soil carbon to nitrogen ratio in the upper soil layers and thus impacted soil microbial diversity.However, in contrast to microbial diversity, soil microbial biomass carbon was not correlated with plant functional group diversity,plant species diversity, or the climate factors annual average air temperature, annual precipitation and aridity index, but were linked to soil nutrient status(e.g. soil dissolved organic carbon, ammonia, available phosphorus, and carbon to nitrogen ratio) and plant biomass of sedges and forbs, demonstrating that microbial biomass and diversity were likely controlled by different factors.In summary, this study investigated the spatial patterns of soil microbial communities across different alpine grassland ecosystem types on the Tibetan Plateau and enhanced our understanding of biotic and abiotic factors controlling microbial biomass and diversity, which will be important in predicting microbial changes on the Tibetan Plateau under future climate change. Under future warming and wetting scenarios on the Tibetan Plateau, it is possible that the aridity index would decrease, leading to increased soil microbial diversity. Results of this study also suggest a focus on the aridity index and plant functional group diversity in future microbial biogeography studies in order to further determine their roles in controlling or mediating soil microbial biomass and diversity.
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