Abstract
As labile fraction of soil organic matter, soil carbohydrates are sensitive to environmental changes due to their high turnover rates. The effects of elevated O3 and CO2 on the concentration and composition of soil carbohydrates in agroecosystems have been rarely studied. The present experiment was conducted to investigate the dynamics of the concentration and composition of neutral sugars in soil under the influence of elevated O3 and CO2 with different N application rates (150kgNha−1 and 225kgNha−1). Our results showed that elevated O3 decreased soil carbohydrate accumulation, with the effect being more pronounced with high than with low N application rate. Elevated O3 significantly increased the ratio of (mannose+galactose)/(arabinose+xylose), indicating that elevated O3 promoted the relative contribution of microbe-derived carbohydrates to soil organic matter (SOM). The high N application rate further increased the contribution of microbe-derived carbohydrates to SOM under elevated O3 conditions. However, elevated CO2 had no effect on soil carbohydrate accumulation and little effects on carbohydrate composition in the study soil, regardless of N application rates. The elevated O3-induced effects were not altered by elevated CO2 at the low N application rate, and the change in composition mediated by elevated CO2 was observed only at the high N application rate. Our results suggest that elevated O3 affected soil carbohydrate accumulation and their composition and that the effects on composition were mediated by elevated CO2 and N application rates.
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