Restoration of soil microbiome in various soil horizons after crown and surface wildfires

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Abstract

Fires have a strong effect on soil microbiome, and the mechanisms of soil restoration after fires are currently not well understood. This study describes the characteristics of microbial communities in the Psamment Entisol soils of pine forests in the city of Togliatti after forest crown and surface fires. Geochemistry, soil respiration and microbial community structure via 16S rRNA gene sequencing were studied in different soil horizons. Both crown and surface fires resulted in the variations of microbial diversity and shifts in taxonomic composition. There is a tendency to an increase in the proportion of representatives from phyla Actinobacteria and Gemmatimonadetes for soil samples recovering after fires. An increase in the proportion of bacteria (Micrococcaceae, Blastocatellaceae) associated with the degradation of substances formed after combustion also has been shown. The research has shown that the crown fire has a smaller effect on the soil microbiome than the surface fire, the largest changes in the microbiome structure were found in the intermediate horizon. At the same time, differences in the structure of the soil microbiome between horizons are intensified after exposure to the soil of a surface fire.

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Grigory V. Gladkov

St. Petersburg State University; All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology

Author for correspondence.
Email: ruginodis@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5248-9018
SPIN-code: 6677-1380
Scopus Author ID: 57214066592

Research Engineer, Department of Applied Ecology; Research Engineer, Laboratory of Rhizosphere Microflora

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Ekaterina Yu. Chebykina

St. Petersburg State University

Email: doublemax@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2449-2180
SPIN-code: 4242-2483
Scopus Author ID: 52163901800
ResearcherId: O-8872-2014

PhD, Junior Researcher, Department of Applied Ecology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Elizaveta V. Evdokimova

St. Petersburg State University; All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology

Email: microbioliza@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0834-3211
SPIN-code: 5082-3493
Scopus Author ID: 55025444700
ResearcherId: N-2985-2015

PhD, Senior Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Department of Applied Ecology; Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Microbiological Monitoring and Bioremediation of Soils

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Ekaterina A. Ivanova

V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute

Email: katriell@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1589-9875
SPIN-code: 1641-3923
Scopus Author ID: 56640659000
ResearcherId: F-9279-2017

PhD, Senior Researcher, Department of Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Russian Federation, Moscow

Anastasiia K. Kimeklis

Saint-Petersburg State University;
All-Russia Research Insitute for Agricultural Microbiology

Email: kimeklis@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0348-7021
SPIN-code: 9410-7854

Research Engineer, Department of Applied Ecology; Research Engineer, Laboratory of Microbiological Monitoring and Mioremediation of Soils

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Alexey О. Zverev

St. Petersburg State University; All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology

Email: azver.bio@gmail.com

Research Engineer, Department of Applied Ecology; Research Engineer, Laboratory of Microbiological Monitoring and Mioremediation of Soils

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Arina A. Kichko

St. Petersburg State University; All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology

Email: 2014arki@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8482-6226

Research Engineer, Department of Applied Ecology; Research Engineer, Laboratory of Microbiological Monitoring and Bioremediation of Soils

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

Evgeny E. Andronov

St. Petersburg State University; All-Russian Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology; V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute

Email: eeandr@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5204-262X
SPIN-code: 5547-4243
Scopus Author ID: 13605813400
ResearcherId: S-1688-2016

PhD, Senior Researcher, Department of Genetics and Biotechnology; Head of Laboratory, Laboratory of Microbiological Monitoring and Bioremediation of Soils; Leading Researcher, Department of Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg; Saint Petersburg; Moscow

Evgeny V. Abakumov

St. Petersburg State University

Email: e_abakumov@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5248-9018
SPIN-code: 8878-4010
Scopus Author ID: 8660197600
ResearcherId: B-5291-2013

Doctor of Science, Head of Department, Department of Applied Ecology

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

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2. Figure: 1. Distribution of the representation of phylotypes by their frequencies. The abscissa is the intervals of the relative abundance of phylotypes (as a percentage of the total number of phylotypes in the sample), the ordinate is the median value of the number of phylotypes for a given range

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Copyright (c) 2020 Gladkov G.V., Chebykina E.Y., Evdokimova E.V., Ivanova E.A., Kimeklis A.K., Zverev A.О., Kichko A.A., Andronov E.E., Abakumov E.V.

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