Priming effect (PE) plays an important role in regulating terrestrial soil carbon (C) cycling, but the impact of different C addition modes on the PE in subtropical forest ecosystems with increasing nitrogen (N) deposition is unclear. In this study, we investigated the effects of C addition patterns (single or repeated C addition) on soil PE by adding 13C-labeled glucose for 90 d in an incubation experiment with different levels of N application (0, 20, and 80 kg N·hm-2·a-1). The different patterns of glucose addition significantly increased soil organic C (SOC) mineralization and produced positive PE. Single glucose addition resulted in stronger PE than repeated addition. PE was significantly weakened with increasing N application levels, indicating that N deposition inhibited soil excitation in Phyllostachys edulis forests. The cumulative PE was significantly negatively correlated with β-N-acetylaminoglucosidase (NAG) and peroxidase (PEO) activities, and was significantly positively correlated with microbial biomass P (MBP) and potential of hydrogen (pH). Our findings indicated that, when acting together on soil, N application and C addition could strongly affect soil C stocks by stimulating the mineralization of native soil organic matter in subtropical forests. The findings further indicated that single C addition model might overestimate the effect of exogenous readily decomposable organic C on PE and ignore the effect of N deposition on PE, which in turn would overestimate the mineralization loss of forest SOC.
激发效应(PE)在调控陆地土壤碳(C)循环中发挥着重要作用,但在氮(N)沉降日益严重的亚热带森林生态系统中,不同C添加模式对PE的影响尚不清楚。本研究通过添加13C标记的葡萄糖,进行90 d的室内培养试验,探究不同施N水平下(0、20、80 kg N·hm-2·a-1)C添加模式(单次C添加、重复C添加)对土壤PE的影响。结果表明: 不同模式葡萄糖添加均显著增加了土壤有机C(SOC)矿化,产生了正PE,且单次的葡萄糖添加比重复添加引起的PE更大;随着施N水平的增加,PE显著减弱,表明N沉降抑制了毛竹林土壤激发。相关分析显示,累积PE与β-N-乙酰氨基葡萄糖苷酶(NAG)、过氧化物酶(PEO)活性呈显著负相关,与微生物生物量磷(MBP)、酸碱度(pH)呈显著正相关。综上,施N和C添加共同作用于土壤时,可以通过刺激亚热带森林中原生土壤有机质矿化而对土壤C储量产生强烈影响。本研究证明,单次C添加模式可能高估了外源易分解有机C对PE的影响,而忽略了N沉降对PE的影响,进而高估了森林SOC的矿化损失。.
Keywords: carbon addition mode; enzymatic activity; nitrogen deposition; priming effect.