海草
碎石
蓝炭
环境科学
环境化学
微生物环
生态学
生态系统
生物量(生态学)
化学
食物网
生物
作者
Songlin Liu,Stacey M. Trevathan‐Tackett,Carolyn J. Ewers Lewis,Xiaoping Huang,Peter I. Macreadie
标识
DOI:10.1021/acs.est.0c03720
摘要
Intensive macroalgal blooms, a source of labile organic carbon (LOC) induced by coastal nutrient loading in some seagrass ecosystems, create ideal conditions for enhanced recalcitrant organic carbon (ROC) loss via the cometabolism effect. Here, we carried out a 62-day laboratory experiment to see if density-dependent addition of macroalgal biomass can influence the seagrass decomposition process, including seagrass detritus carbon chemistry, greenhouse emissions, and bacterial communities. We found that higher density macroalgal addition stimulated microbes to decompose ∼20% more of the seagrass biomass compared to other treatments, which was also reflected in enhanced (∼twofold) greenhouse gas emissions. Although the composition of the seagrass-associated microbiome communities was unaffected by the addition of macroalgae, we showed that high macroalgal addition caused a relative depletion in the ROC as lignin and lipid compounds, as well as δ13C depletion and δ15N enrichment of the seagrass detritus. These results suggest that macroalgal blooms may stimulate the remineralization of recalcitrant components of seagrass detritus via cometabolism, possibly through providing available energy or resources for the synthesis of ROC-degrading enzymes within the resident microbial population. This study provides evidence that cometabolism can be a mechanism for leading to reduced seagrass blue carbon sequestration and preservation.
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