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发表于 2009-4-10 04:40 AM
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本帖最后由 刘承宜 于 2009-4-10 04:56 AM 编辑
土壤的功能
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008GB003250.shtml
在全球各地,土壤将氨基酸转化为更小分子的功能都是相似的。
Soil is the same all around the world — at least in terms of its capacity to break down certain nutrients. Davey Jones of Bangor University in Gwynedd, UK, and his colleagues reached this conclusion after analysing soil samples collected at 40 locations around the globe, from the Arctic to the equatorial zone to Antarctica.
The researchers found that all of the soil samples contained similar concentrations of amino acids. And, when maintained at the same conditions, microbes resident in the different samples all broke down amino acids at roughly the same rate. The results suggest that even though global ecosystems are complex and distinct, soil microbes are similar in their ability to convert amino acids into smaller molecules.
原文
Jones, D. L., K. Kielland, F. L. Sinclair, R. A. Dahlgren, K. K. Newsham, J. F. Farrar, and D. V. Murphy (2009), Soil organic nitrogen mineralization across a global latitudinal gradient, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 23, GB1016, doi:10.1029/2008GB003250.
Understanding and accurately predicting the fate of carbon and nitrogen in the terrestrial biosphere remains a central goal in ecosystem science. Amino acids represent a key pool of C and N in soil, and their availability to plants and microorganisms has been implicated as a major driver in regulating ecosystem functioning. Because of potential differences in biological diversity and litter quality, it has been thought that soils from different latitudes and plant communities may possess intrinsically different capacities to perform key functions such as the turnover of amino acids. In this study we measured the soil solution concentration and microbial mineralization of amino acids in soils collected from 40 latitudinal points from the Arctic through to Antarctica. Our results showed that soil solution amino acid concentrations were relatively similar between sites and not strongly related to latitude. In addition, when constraints of temperature and moisture were removed, we demonstrate that soils worldwide possess a similar innate capacity to rapidly mineralize amino acids. Similarly, we show that the internal partitioning of amino acid-C into catabolic and anabolic processes is conservative in microbial communities and independent of global position. This supports the view that the conversion of high molecular weight (MW) organic matter to low MW compounds is the rate limiting step in organic matter breakdown in most ecosystems. |
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