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Overstating trophic cascade strength following large carnivore restoration in Yellowstone: A comment on Painter et al. (2025) 夸大黄石大型食肉动物恢复后的营养级联强度:对Painter等人(2025)的评论
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123448
Daniel R. MacNulty, Elaine M. Brice, Nicholas J. Bergeron, Eric J. Larsen
Painter et al. (2025) claim that large-carnivore recovery in Yellowstone National Park has produced a strong trophic cascade compared to other systems, citing a 152-fold increase in aspen sapling density and widespread recruitment of new trees. We show that these conclusions substantially overstate the cascade’s strength because of key methodological and interpretive flaws. First, Painter et al. miscalculated the baseline density in their dataset, inflating the reported log response ratio from a true 17.5-fold increase to 152-fold. Second, they analyzed repeated measurements of the same stands as if they were independent samples, overstating standardized effect sizes by 30–40 %. Third, because sapling densities are highly zero-inflated and right-skewed, mean-based metrics (log response ratios and standardized differences) are disproportionately influenced by a small minority of plots, while most plots showed little or no change. Fourth, Painter et al. conflated stand-level occurrence with magnitude, treating the presence of one or a few tall stems (“43 % of stands contained small trees”) as evidence of widespread recruitment. Finally, their assumptions that stems ≥ 2 m have escaped browsing and that reduced browsing alone drives height growth are contradicted by long-term data showing substantial browsing through 2–2.5 m and strong height–browsing feedbacks. Taken together, these shortcomings exaggerate the magnitude and pace of aspen recovery. The evidence supports the occurrence of a trophic cascade in Yellowstone, but not the magnitude of strength claimed. Accurate assessment of trophic cascade strength in Yellowstone is vital to ensure that this iconic system reliably informs ecological understanding and restoration practice.
Painter等人(2025)声称,与其他系统相比,黄石国家公园的大型食肉动物的恢复产生了强大的营养级联,理由是白杨幼树密度增加了152倍,新树的广泛补充。我们表明,由于关键的方法和解释缺陷,这些结论实质上夸大了级联的强度。首先,Painter等人错误地计算了他们数据集中的基线密度,将报告的日志响应比从17.5倍增加到152倍。其次,他们分析了对同一展台的重复测量,就好像它们是独立的样本一样,将标准化效应大小夸大了30 - 40% %。第三,由于树苗密度高度零膨胀且右偏,基于均值的指标(对数响应比和标准化差异)不成比例地受到少数地块的影响,而大多数地块几乎没有变化。第四,Painter等人将林分发生与量级混为一谈,将一个或几个高茎的存在(“43% %的林分包含小树”)视为广泛招募的证据。最后,他们的假设是树干≥ 2 m已经逃脱了浏览,而减少的浏览单独推动了身高的增长,这与长期数据显示的2 - 2.5 m的大量浏览和强烈的高度浏览反馈相矛盾。综上所述,这些缺点夸大了白杨复苏的规模和速度。有证据表明黄石公园发生了营养级联,但强度并不像声称的那么大。准确评估黄石公园的营养级联强度对于确保这一标志性系统可靠地为生态理解和恢复实践提供信息至关重要。
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Comments on “Clear-cuts and warming summers caused forest bird populations to decline in a southern boreal area” by Virkkala et al 对Virkkala等人“砍伐森林和夏季变暖导致南方北方地区森林鸟类数量下降”的评论
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123478
Jari Vauhkonen
A reanalysis of Virkkala et al. (2023) suggests that their conclusion of identifying cumulative clearcutting as the primary cause of the bird population decline is misleading. The significance of clearcutting stems from its monotonic increase over time due to being a cumulative sum, which cannot be distinguished statistically from a spurious correlation in a single-site time series. Adding the observation year as an additional explanatory variable to the original model made the significance disappear and changed the sign of the coefficient, indicating confounding with time. A comparison with alternative time-aware modeling approaches also reduced support for clearcutting as a primary driver. As in the original study, seasonal temperature values were significant explanatory variables of changes in bird densities, supporting climate-linked trends. Including temporal structure (autoregression and moving average terms) and species interactions could improve the model’s ability to describe the bird population drivers. However, any such inference is inherently limited by the data. The lack of replication, potential observer bias over the 30-year period, spatial inconsistencies, and unresolved issues in the clearcut dataset raise concerns. Fundamentally, drawing such strong conclusions from a single, unreplicated time series is scientifically questionable and warrants criticism.
对Virkkala等人(2023)的重新分析表明,他们将累积砍伐确定为鸟类数量下降的主要原因的结论具有误导性。采伐的重要性源于其随时间的单调增长,因为它是一个累积和,在统计上无法与单站点时间序列中的虚假相关区分开来。在原模型中增加观测年份作为解释变量,显著性消失,系数符号发生变化,表明与时间存在混淆。与可选的时间感知建模方法的比较也减少了对作为主要驱动因素的清除的支持。与最初的研究一样,季节性温度值是鸟类密度变化的重要解释变量,支持与气候相关的趋势。包括时间结构(自回归和移动平均项)和物种相互作用可以提高模型描述鸟类种群驱动因素的能力。然而,任何这样的推断都受到数据的固有限制。clearcut数据集缺乏复制、30年期间潜在的观察者偏差、空间不一致以及未解决的问题引起了人们的关注。从根本上说,从单一的、不可重复的时间序列中得出如此强有力的结论在科学上是有问题的,值得批评。
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As forests reclaim the land: Latitudinal variations in carbon-biodiversity trade-offs under natural forest expansion in Italy 随着森林开垦土地:意大利天然林扩张下碳生物多样性权衡的纬度变化
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123527
Lorenzo Orzan , Antonio Tomao , Gabriele Antoniella , Gianmaria Bonari , Valentino Casolo , Tommaso Chiti , Paolo Cingano , Alessandro Foscari , Guido Incerti , Speranza Claudia Panico , Natalie Piazza , Giacomo Trotta , Giorgio Alberti
Spontaneous forest expansion following land abandonment can play a key role in achieving European targets for climate-change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Understanding how biodiversity relates to carbon (C) stocks across successional stages can inform management strategies that simultaneously promote species diversity and C sequestration, thereby optimizing land use for ecosystem multifunctionality. We analysed 16 chronosequences spanning five successional stages, from meadows and pastures to mature forests (up to ∼75 years since abandonment), organized into four clusters along a latitudinal gradient in Italy, encompassing the Alpine, Continental, and Mediterranean biogeographical regions. We quantified vegetation, deadwood, and soil C pools and calculated diversity indices for herbaceous plant species. Linear and generalized linear mixed models were used to assess successional stage and site effects on C stocks and diversity indices. Total ecosystem C increased along succession, driven primarily by tree biomass, reaching 195–289 Mg C ha−1 in late-successional forests. Soil C showed no clear successional trend, with weak or site-specific patterns. Herbaceous species richness and diversity peaked in managed meadows/pastures and early encroachment stages but declined towards closed-canopy forests in three sites. By contrast, a U-shaped pattern emerged in the southernmost site. Consequently, the C–diversity relationship was predominantly negative, except for the non-linear response observed in the Mediterranean site. Overall, spontaneous reforestation promotes C storage but often reduce herbaceous plant diversity, revealing potential trade-offs between climate mitigation and plant diversity. However, under favourable environmental conditions, partial recovery of plant diversity in late-successional forests may occur, suggesting for win-win management policies.
在放弃土地后自发扩大森林,可在实现欧洲减缓气候变化和保护生物多样性的目标方面发挥关键作用。了解生物多样性与不同演替阶段碳(C)储量之间的关系,可以为同时促进物种多样性和碳封存的管理策略提供信息,从而优化土地利用,实现生态系统的多功能。我们分析了16个时间序列,跨越5个演替阶段,从草甸和牧场到成熟森林(遗弃后长达75年),沿着意大利的纬度梯度组织成4个集群,包括高山、大陆和地中海生物地理区域。我们量化了植被、枯木和土壤C库,并计算了草本植物物种的多样性指数。采用线性和广义线性混合模型评价演替阶段和场址效应对C种群和多样性指数的影响。生态系统总碳随演替而增加,主要受树木生物量的驱动,在演替后期森林达到195 ~ 289 Mg C ha - 1。土壤C的演替趋势不明显,表现出微弱的演替格局或特定的演替格局。3个样地草本物种丰富度和多样性在有管理的草甸/牧场和早期入侵阶段达到峰值,而在闭林阶段有所下降。相比之下,在最南端出现了u形图案。因此,c -多样性关系主要是负的,除了在地中海遗址观察到的非线性响应。总体而言,自发再造林促进了碳储存,但往往减少了草本植物多样性,揭示了减缓气候变化与植物多样性之间的潜在权衡。然而,在有利的环境条件下,晚演替林的植物多样性可能会出现部分恢复,建议采取双赢的管理政策。
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An ecologically significant trophic cascade in Yellowstone: Response to MacNulty, et al. (2026) 黄石公园生态意义重大的营养级联:对MacNulty等人的回应(2026)
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123449
Luke E. Painter, Robert L. Beschta, William J. Ripple
In a recent paper (Painter et al., 2025) we reported results from northern Yellowstone National Park, where quaking aspen recruitment was suppressed by intensive Rocky Mountain elk herbivory during the 20th century. Restoration of large carnivores, including gray wolf reintroduction in 1995–96, resulted in sustained reduction of elk density and elk browsing, benefitting aspen. We reported changes in aspen recruitment between our initial random sampling of aspen in 1997–98 and subsequent sampling in 2012 and 2020–21. Density of young aspen (>2 m tall) increased and new young trees (>5 cm dbh) were documented for the first time since the 1940s. About 30 % of stands had many new saplings, while 38 % continued to be suppressed with few or no saplings, and the remaining 32 % had patches of saplings. In their comment, MacNulty et al. (2026) identified an error in our calculation of log ratio effect strength. The corrected result (loge ratio 2.9, corrected from 5.0) still indicates a strong trophic cascade compared to published examples, and likely underestimates the amount of change. We compared other ways of calculating log ratio effect strength, and these also indicated a strong effect, but this should not be confused with a total reversal of the factors affecting aspen. MacNulty et al. further challenged our general interpretation of our results with arguments we addressed previously, and we address them again here. The Yellowstone aspen trophic cascade is not a complete restoration of all aspen stands, but it is a strong and ecologically significant effect.
在最近的一篇论文(Painter et al., 2025)中,我们报告了黄石国家公园北部的结果,在20世纪,落基山麋鹿的密集食草性抑制了颤杨的增加。大型食肉动物的恢复,包括1995-96年灰狼的重新引入,导致驼鹿密度和驼鹿觅食的持续减少,这对白杨有利。我们报告了1997-98年最初的白杨随机抽样与2012年和2020-21年的后续抽样之间白杨采伐的变化。幼杨树(2 m高)密度增加,新树(5 cm dbh)为20世纪40年代以来首次记录。约30 %的林分新苗较多,38 %的林分新苗较少或无苗木,其余32 %的林分有小片苗木。在他们的评论中,MacNulty等人(2026)在对数比效应强度的计算中发现了一个错误。修正后的结果(loge ratio 2.9,从5.0修正)仍然表明与已发表的例子相比,存在强烈的营养级联,并且可能低估了变化的量。我们比较了其他计算对数比效应强度的方法,这些方法也表明了很强的效应,但不应将其与影响白杨的因素完全逆转混淆。MacNulty等人用我们之前讨论过的论点进一步挑战了我们对结果的一般解释,我们在这里再次讨论它们。黄石白杨林的营养级联不是所有白杨林的完全恢复,但它是一个强大的生态显著效应。
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Quantifying post-fire live tree presence and spatial variation using Sentinel-2 time series 利用Sentinel-2时间序列量化火灾后活树的存在和空间变化
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123461
Saba J. Saberi , Phillip J. van Mantgem , Micah C. Wright , Christopher Y.S. Wong , Andrew M. Latimer , Derek J.N. Young
Accurate mapping of post-fire surviving trees is important for tracking forest recovery and prioritizing land management decisions. Satellite-based remote sensing is an effective method to assess post-fire forest conditions. Traditionally, differenced satellite-derived burn severity indices are computed by differencing one year pre- and post-fire spectral reflectance values. Differenced burn severity indices are useful for quantifying and mapping the magnitude of ecological change, but their application to detecting and mapping post-fire live trees may not be as appropriate, particularly for delayed tree mortality. Delayed tree mortality (“delayed mortality”) is a phenomenon where trees that initially survive fire then die over an extended period (between one and five years), and it can be challenging to measure and predict. In this study, we demonstrate the potential of mapping delayed mortality using readily available remotely sensed imagery alone. We used random forest models to detect post-fire live trees using 10-m resolution Sentinel-2 data at one-, three-, and five-years post-fire for four fires in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Using imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP; 60-cm resolution), we manually classified live tree presence in 6000 Sentinel-2 pixels (500 pixels for each fire-year combination) to calibrate and validate models. Sentinel-2 based model accuracies ranged from 65 % to 86 % with F-scores ranging from 0.52 to 0.86, and their predictions of live pixel area were on average 44 % lower than inferred from more traditional indices such as relative differenced normalized burn ratio (RdNBR). This work represents a promising first step in using freely available post-fire spectral reflectance imagery to detect live trees over an extended period to support post-fire management.
准确绘制火灾后幸存树木的地图对于跟踪森林恢复和优先考虑土地管理决策非常重要。卫星遥感是评估火灾后森林状况的有效方法。传统上,通过区分火灾前后一年的光谱反射率值来计算卫星衍生的不同烧伤严重程度指数。不同的烧伤严重程度指数对于量化和绘制生态变化的大小是有用的,但它们在火灾后活树探测和绘制活树图方面的应用可能不合适,特别是对于延迟死亡的树木。树木延迟死亡(“延迟死亡”)是一种现象,即树木最初在火灾中幸存下来,然后在较长时间(1到5年)内死亡,这可能很难测量和预测。在这项研究中,我们证明了单独使用现成的遥感图像绘制延迟死亡率的潜力。我们使用随机森林模型,利用10米分辨率的Sentinel-2数据,在火灾后1年、3年和5年对美国加州内华达山脉南部的4次火灾进行检测。使用来自国家农业图像计划(NAIP; 60厘米分辨率)的图像,我们手动对6000个Sentinel-2像素的活树进行分类(每个5年组合500像素),以校准和验证模型。基于Sentinel-2的模型精度范围为65 %至86 %,f值范围为0.52至0.86,其对活像素面积的预测平均比传统指数(如相对差异归一化燃烧比(RdNBR))的预测低44 %。这项工作代表了利用免费的火灾后光谱反射图像来检测长时间活树以支持火灾后管理的有希望的第一步。
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Fecal DNA metabarcoding reveals spatial and temporal variation in the summer diets of moose (Alces alces) in north-central British Columbia 粪便DNA元条形码揭示了不列颠哥伦比亚省中北部驼鹿(Alces Alces)夏季饮食的时空变化
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123498
Andrew Dyck , Roy V. Rea , Maria Kuzmina
Moose (Alces alces) are a socially, culturally, and economically important species of large herbivore which inhabits areas throughout many parts of the timber harvesting land base in circumpolar regions of the world. Although the diets of moose vary spatially and seasonally, they predominantly consist of woody perennials such as Betula spp., Populus spp., Salix spp., and Abies spp. but also herbaceous and aquatic plants, that can all be impacted by forest management. Because moose diets vary across their range and seasonally, understanding their local diet composition is crucial for guiding land management decisions that may affect moose range quality and population dynamics. This study aimed to determine the vascular plant species composition in the diets of moose in selected locations of north-central British Columbia (BC), Canada, where moose populations have been declining and to examine how their diets varied geographically, annually (from one summer to the next), and within season (from early to late summer). During the summers of 2020, 2021, and 2022, moose fecal samples were collected from three areas in north-central BC known to be occupied in summer by moose and analyzed with DNA metabarcoding using a technique employing the second internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) to determine the plant species composition in the collected fecal samples. Frequencies of identified plants from 14 families and 18 genera were separately compared across space and time using Frequency of Occurrence, Relative Read Abundance, Pianka’s Niche Overlap Index, and two-sided Fisher’s exact tests. The diversity of plants in the diet was also compared. Most of the identified taxa fell into 5 families: Onagraceae, Betulaceae, Grossulariaceae, Rosaceae, and Ericaceae. Results indicated considerable variation in diet between geographical areas with low variation in diet between years and a need for increased sampling effort within early and late seasons. We encourage forest managers to incorporate our findings into forest management decision-making on moose summer ranges, particularly in areas where moose are an important management objective or where their numbers are declining.
驼鹿(Alces Alces)是一种社会、文化和经济上重要的大型食草动物,栖息在世界极地地区木材采伐基地的许多地区。虽然驼鹿的饮食因空间和季节而异,但它们主要由木本多年生植物组成,如桦树、杨树、柳树和冷杉,但也有草本和水生植物,这些都可能受到森林管理的影响。因为驼鹿的饮食因其分布范围和季节而异,了解当地的饮食构成对于指导土地管理决策至关重要,这可能会影响驼鹿的范围质量和种群动态。本研究旨在确定在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省(BC)中北部选定地点驼鹿饮食中的维管植物物种组成,那里的驼鹿数量一直在下降,并研究它们的饮食如何在地理上、每年(从一个夏天到下一个夏天)和季节内(从夏初到夏末)发生变化。在2020年、2021年和2022年夏季,在BC省中北部三个已知驼鹿夏季活动的地区收集了驼鹿粪便样本,并使用采用第二内部转录间隔段(ITS2)的DNA元条形码技术对收集的粪便样本进行了分析,以确定所收集的粪便样本中的植物物种组成。利用发生频率(Frequency)、相对读丰度(Relative Read Abundance)、Pianka’s生态位重叠指数(Niche Overlap Index)和双侧Fisher’s精确检验分别比较了14科18属植物的时空分布。还比较了日粮中植物的多样性。所鉴定的分类群主要分为5科:玉兰科、桦木科、木参科、蔷薇科和Ericaceae。结果表明,不同地理区域之间的饮食差异相当大,不同年份之间的饮食差异较小,需要在早季和晚季增加取样工作。我们鼓励森林管理者将我们的发现纳入驼鹿夏季活动范围的森林管理决策中,特别是在驼鹿是重要管理目标或其数量正在下降的地区。
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Carbon stock models for early post-fire reforestation efforts in the southwestern US 美国西南部早期火灾后再造林工作的碳储量模型
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123507
Christopher Marsh , Matthew D. Hurteau , Owen Burney
Changing climate and high-severity wildfire are causing widespread tree mortality across the southwestern United States, significantly reducing the seed source availability to support post-fire regeneration of forest and woodland. This presents a challenge to both forest regeneration, and the potential contribution of disturbed areas to carbon storage. Planting tree seedlings can accelerate reforestation and rates of carbon sequestration, but in the semi-arid southwestern US, the carbon storage potential of reforestation efforts is uncertain due to limited information on seedling growth and survival rates. We surveyed eight post-wildfire reforestation sites and developed allometric equations to predict carbon sequestration as a function of directly measured seedling size, and indirectly using years since planting and current and future climate scenarios. Our findings highlight the critical role of seedling survival in the first few years after planting, which dramatically alters carbon stock trajectories. Future climate conditions, characterized by higher temperatures at low-elevation sites, may hinder reforestation efforts and reduce the carbon storage potential of these areas. Given our findings, we recommend climate-informed planting strategies in post-wildfire areas, including adjusting planting densities to maximize carbon stock accumulation while ensuring future wildfire resiliency. This research offers practical insights for forest managers aiming to improve reforestation outcomes, particularly as we face the challenges of a changing climate.
气候变化和高度严重的野火导致美国西南部树木普遍死亡,大大减少了支持火灾后森林和林地再生的种子来源。这对森林再生和受干扰地区对碳储存的潜在贡献都提出了挑战。种植树苗可以加速再造林和碳固存速度,但在半干旱的美国西南部,由于幼苗生长和存活率的信息有限,再造林的碳储存潜力尚不确定。我们调查了8个野火后再造林地点,并建立了异速生长方程,以预测碳固存作为直接测量幼苗大小的函数,并间接使用种植后的年份以及当前和未来的气候情景。我们的研究结果强调了种植后最初几年幼苗存活的关键作用,这极大地改变了碳储量的轨迹。未来的气候条件,其特征是低海拔地区的温度更高,可能会阻碍重新造林的努力,并降低这些地区的碳储存潜力。鉴于我们的研究结果,我们建议在野火后地区采取气候信息型种植策略,包括调整种植密度以最大限度地提高碳储量积累,同时确保未来的野火恢复能力。这项研究为旨在改善再造林成果的森林管理者提供了实际见解,特别是在我们面临气候变化挑战的情况下。
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Corrigendum to “Native species seedlings in forest restoration in the Southern Amazon rapidly increase soil carbon stocks” [For. Ecol. Manage. 603 (2026) 123467] “亚马逊南部森林恢复中的本地物种幼苗迅速增加了土壤碳储量”的勘误表[For。生态。管理。603 (2026)123467]
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123526
Alexandre Ferreira do Nascimento , Ingo Isernhagen , Jorge Lulu , Antonio Okada , Jussane Antunes Fogaça dos Santos , Austeclínio Lopes de Farias Neto
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Close-to-nature management enhances ectomycorrhizal fungal dominance across stand ages in Pinus massoniana plantations 接近自然的管理提高了马尾松人工林各林龄外生菌根真菌的优势
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123504
Jie Wang, Honglang Duan, Qiqiang Guo, Liehua Tie, Shengnan Ouyang, Zongzheng Chai
Close-to-nature management (CTNM) has been increasingly advocated as a sustainable strategy to maintain long-term soil fertility and productivity in plantations. Yet its effects on fungal guilds and their ecological linkages remains unclear. This study examined how CTNM affects fungal community composition, diversity, and co-occurrence networks across young, middle-aged and near-mature Pinus massoniana plantations. Soil fungal communities were profiled using amplicon sequencing and assigned to functional guilds based FungalTraits database. Community composition, diversity and co-occurrences networks were analyzed, and the main plant-soil drivers of ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi were identified through variation partitioning and structure equation modeling (SEM). CTNM consistently increased the relative abundance of ECM fungi across all stand stages, whereas saprotrophic and pathogenic fungi remained largely unchanged. ECM diversity was significantly higher in middle-aged and near-mature stand stages under CNTM. Network analysis revealed that CTNM weakened ECM-ECM but enhanced ECM-saprotroph linkages. Plant and soil variables together explained 72.70 % of ECM community variation, with plant attributes contributing more (59.20 %) than soil properties. SEM further indicated that plant diversity indirectly enhanced ECM abundance through increased soil organic carbon content. CTNM enhances ECM dominance and modifies fungal guild connectivity, thereby strengthening plant-soil-fungus linkages in P. massoniana plantation. By coupling plant diversity with soil carbon dynamics, CTNM contributes to the maintenance of sustainable forest functioning and soil fertility over stand development.
接近自然的管理(CTNM)作为一种可持续的战略越来越受到提倡,以保持种植园土壤的长期肥力和生产力。然而,它对真菌行会的影响及其生态联系仍不清楚。本研究考察了CTNM如何影响年轻、中年和近成熟马尾松人工林的真菌群落组成、多样性和共生网络。利用扩增子测序技术对土壤真菌群落进行了分析,并在FungalTraits数据库中建立了功能行会。分析了外生菌根(ECM)真菌的群落组成、多样性和共现网络,并通过变异分配和结构方程模型(SEM)确定了ECM真菌的主要植物-土壤驱动因子。CTNM在所有林分阶段持续增加ECM真菌的相对丰度,而腐养真菌和致病真菌基本保持不变。CNTM林分中后期和近成熟期ECM多样性显著增高。网络分析显示,CTNM削弱了ECM-ECM,但增强了ecm -腐殖质的联系。植物和土壤变量共同解释了ECM群落变异的72.70 %,其中植物属性比土壤属性贡献更大(59.20 %)。SEM进一步表明,植物多样性通过增加土壤有机碳含量间接提高了ECM丰度。CTNM增强了ECM的优势,改变了真菌的连通性,从而加强了马尾松人工林植物-土壤-真菌的联系。通过植物多样性与土壤碳动态的耦合,CTNM有助于维持林分发展过程中的可持续森林功能和土壤肥力。
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Soil pH and alkaline phosphatase-harboring microorganisms closely link to available phosphorus dynamics of Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations 杉木人工林土壤pH和含碱性磷酸酶微生物与速效磷动态密切相关
IF 3.7 2区 农林科学 Q1 FORESTRY Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123530
Song Wang , Honggang Sun , Gongxiu He
Soil microorganisms play a pivotal role in regulating plant productivity and biogeochemical processes in forest ecosystems. Here, we investigated shifts in soil microbial community, chemical properties, and extracellular enzyme activities across a chronosequence of Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations aged 5–60 years. Our findings demonstrated that the Shannon diversity indices of both bacteria and fungi, along with the abundances of bacteria and fungi exhibited age-associated fluctuations. Fungal community composition exhibited differences between young with half-mature stages (5–20 years) and near-mature with mature stages (25–35 years), while that of bacteria displayed differences between young with half-mature stages (5–20 years) and overmature stages (41–60 years). Specifically, young and over-mature forests promoted oligotrophic and pathogenic taxa (i.e. class of Ustilaginomycetes and Dothideomycetes, and Chloroflexi phylum), while middle-aged stands enriched copiotrophic groups (i.e. phylum of Mortierellomycota and Rozellomycota). Except for soil pH, total nitrogen, and acid phosphatase, the variation ranges of soil nutrients and enzyme activities exceeded 50 % between the forest ages of 5 and 60 years. Soil factors including total phosphorus, pH, dissolved organic carbon, and NO3--N jointly explained 23.50 % and 17.52 % of the variations in bacterial and fungal communities, respectively. In addition, microbial network complexity and bacterial Shannon index exhibited a close relationship with soil available nitrogen and pH, respectively. The proposed mechanism suggests that the fluctuations in NH4+-N content driven by forest aging negatively influences soil pH, which subsequently lowers bacterial Shannon index and abundances of microorganisms secreting alkaline phosphatase, thereby reducing the availability of available phosphorus. Notably, natural understory colonization by broad-leaved trees shifted microbial communities to resemble those of 15-year-younger plantations, and their microbial community changes were closely related to dissolved organic carbon and Ascomycota phylum. Overall, our findings highlight stage-specific patterns in soil microbial diversity, abundance, and composition, which mediate nutrient transformations through distinct biogeochemical pathways in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations.
土壤微生物在调节森林生态系统植物生产力和生物地球化学过程中起着关键作用。本文研究了杉木人工林5 ~ 60年树龄土壤微生物群落、化学性质和胞外酶活性的变化。研究结果表明,细菌和真菌的Shannon多样性指数以及细菌和真菌的丰度都呈现出与年龄相关的波动。真菌群落组成在半成熟期(5 ~ 20年)和近成熟期(25 ~ 35年)之间存在差异,细菌群落组成在半成熟期(5 ~ 20年)和过成熟期(41 ~ 60年)之间存在差异。具体而言,幼林和过成熟林促进了少营养和致病类群(即菇菌纲和多菌纲,以及绿菌门),而中年林分则丰富了共营养类群(即Mortierellomycota门和Rozellomycota门)。除土壤pH、全氮和酸性磷酸酶外,5 ~ 60年林龄土壤养分和酶活性的变化幅度均超过50% %。土壤因子包括全磷、pH、溶解有机碳和NO3—N分别解释了23.50% %和17.52% %的细菌和真菌群落变化。此外,微生物网络复杂性和细菌Shannon指数分别与土壤有效氮和pH密切相关。该机制表明,森林老化驱动的NH4+-N含量波动对土壤pH产生负面影响,进而降低细菌香农指数和分泌碱性磷酸酶的微生物丰度,从而降低有效磷的有效性。阔叶树自然定植林下的微生物群落向15年生林下相似,其微生物群落变化与溶解有机碳和子囊菌门密切相关。总体而言,我们的研究结果强调了杉木人工林土壤微生物多样性、丰度和组成的阶段性模式,这些模式通过不同的生物地球化学途径介导养分转化。
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