RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST SCIENCE, 2018, No. 1, P. 3-23, DOI: 10.7868/S0024114818010011


THE EFFECT OF REFORESTATION ON MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN POST-AGROGENIC SOILS IN EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA
I. N. Kurganova1,2, V. O. Lopes de Gerenyu1, A. S. Mostovaya3, L. A. Ovsepyan, V. M. Telesnina4, V. I. Lichko1, Yu. I. Baeva5
1Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences
Institutskaya st. 2, Pushchino, Moscow Oblast, 142290, Russia
E-mail: ikurg@mail.ru
2Forest Research Institute, Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Pushkinskaya st. 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russia
3Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev
Timiryazevskaya st. 49, Moscow, 127550, Russia
4Soil Science faculty, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Leninskie Gory 1 bldg. 12, Moscow, 119991, Russia
5Agrarian Technological institute of RUDN University
Miklukho-Maklaya st. 8 block 2, Moscow, 117198, Russia


Received 24 October 2016
Microbial activity in post-agrogenic sod-podzolics, grey and dark-grey forest soils was studied. The soils represented consequent stages of reforestation on agricultural lands across the forest site types. The stages of post-agrogenic soil succession included plough lands, abandoned fields of various ages, and forest coenoses. We measured organic carbon (Corg), organic nitrogen (Norg), pH, field water capacity, basal respiration (Vbasal), microbial carbon (Cmic) and indicators of functioning of microbial communities: metabolic quotient (qCO2), Cmic/Corg ratio; basal respiration rate (Vbasal/Corg) in samples from 0-10 cm and 10-20 cm of soils. We have found that conversion of an arable soil to grassland or woodland resulted in accumulation of organic carbon in 0-10 cm layer, and consequently to rise of soil respiration, and pool of microbial carbon. On the other hand, acidity grew significantly in the 10-20 cm layer owing to podzolisation in the forest, which decreased Vbasal and Cmic concentration. Microbial indicators (Vbasal and Cmic) and other soil properties (Corg, Norg, field water capacity) had the highest correlations at every stage of post-agrogenic succession. The dynamics of changes of all soil properties during post-agrogenic development was controlled by the following (in order of relevance): forest domain/soil type > age of abandoned field ≈ depth in ploughed layer.
Keywords: post-agrogenic soils, organic matter, basal respiration, microbial biomass, metabolic coefficient qCO2, reforestation, boreal forest, mixed forest, forest-steppe.
Acknowledgments: This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 15-04-05156a), program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences no. 15, and DFG (#171-27-1).
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