ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Effects of Solidago canadensis Invasion
and Climate Warming on Soil Net N
Mineralization
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Institute of Environment and Ecology, Academy of Environmental Health and Ecological Security,
School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China
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Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA
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School of Management, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
Submission date: 2019-09-29
Final revision date: 2019-11-11
Acceptance date: 2019-11-14
Online publication date: 2020-03-27
Publication date: 2020-05-12
Corresponding author
Daolin Du
School of the Environment and Safety Engineering, Jiangsu University, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(5):3285-3294
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ABSTRACT
The rapid expansion of Solidago canadensis and climate warming in southeastern China may
interactively affect soil net nitrogen (N) mineralization, which may lead to plant invasion. A greenhouse
simulated experiment was conducted with invasion, warming, and their interaction to investigate these
changes’ effects on soil net N mineralization in an ecological system. Our results indicated that the
average rate of net mineralization, nitrification, and ammonification decreased with invasion, warming,
and their interaction. The enzyme activities and pH showed more sensitivity in warming than invasion,
and have a similar decreased trend with net N mineralization response to environmental changes, except
sucrase. At the same time, enzyme and pH may play a key role in the process of net N mineralization
from Pearson’s correlation and redundancy analysis, especially for sucrase and urease. In addition, the
lower produced of litter biomass by plants growing in pots was also an important reason for the decrease
of net N mineralization rate. These results indicated that the significant decrease in substrate quality (N
availability) by the increase in invasion and warming may cause the deterioration of species production
in soil, which will have important consequences for soil ecology, N-cycles, and plant invasion.