Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
THE IMPACT OF GREY HERON (ARDEA CINEREA L.) COLONY ON SOIL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AND VEGETATION: A NATURAL LONG-TERM IN SITU EXPERIMENT IN A PLANTED PINE FOREST
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2023
Языканглийский
  • Bogachev Mikhail Igorevich, author
  • Gareev Bulat Irekovich, author
  • Gafurov Artur Maratovich, author
  • Kayumov Ayrat Rashitovich, author
  • Markelova Mariya Ivanovna, author
  • Romanova Valeriya Aleksandrovna, author
  • Tishin Denis Vladimirovich, author
  • Usmanov Bulat Mansurovich, author
  • Bogachev Mikhail Igorevich, author
  • Kaplun Dmitriy Ilich, author
  • Pyko Nikita Sergeevich, author
  • Pyko Svetlana Anatolevna, author
  • Safonova Anastasiya Nikolaevna, author
  • Sinica Aleksandr Mikhaylovich, author
  • Imaev Rasul Gabdrafikovich, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Bogachev M.I., Tishin D.V., Gafurov A.M., Gareev B.I., Imaev R.G., Kaplun D.I., Markelova M.I., Pyko N.S., Pyko S.A., Romanova V.A., Safonova A.N., Sinitca A.M., Usmanov B.M., Kayumov A.R. The impact of Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea L.) colony on soil biogeochemistry and vegetation: a natural long-term in situ experiment in a planted pine forest. / // Front. Environ. Sci. Vol.11. Art. 1197657.
    Annotation Increased anthropogenic pressure including intensification of agricultural activities leads to long-term decline of natural biotopes, with planted forests often considered as promising compensatory response, although reduced biodiversity and ecosystem stability represent their common drawbacks. Here we present a complex investigation of the impact of a large Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea L.) colony on soil biogeochemistry and vegetation in a planted Scots pine forest representing a natural in situ experiment on an engineered ecosystem. After settling around 2006, the colony expanded for 15 years, leading to the intensive deposition of nutrients with feces, food remains and feather thereby considerably altering the local soil biogeochemistry. Thus, lower pH levels around 4.5, 10- and 2-fold higher concentrations of phosphorous and nitrogen, as well as 1.2-fold discrepancies in K, Li, Mn, Zn and Co., respectively, compared to the surrounding control forest area could be observed. Unaltered total organic carbon (Corg) suggests repressed vegetation, as also reflected in the vegetation indices obtained by remote sensing. Moreover, reduced soil microbial diversity with considerable alternations in the relative abundance of Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Acidobacteriota, Actinobacteriota, Verrucomicrobiota, Gemmatimonadota, Chujaibacter, Rhodanobacter, and Bacillus has been detected. The above alterations to the ecosystem also affected climate stress resilience of the trees indicated by their limited recovery from the major 2010 drought stress, in marked contrast to the surrounding forest (p = 3∙10−5). The complex interplay between geographical, geochemical, microbiological and dendrological characteristics, as well as their manifestation in the vegetation indices is explicitly reflected in the Bayesian network model. Using the Bayesian inference approach, we have confirmed the predictability of biodiversity patterns and trees growth dynamics given the concentrations of keynote soil biogeochemical alternations with correlations R > 0.8 between observations and predictions, indicating the capability of risk assessment that could be further employed for an informed forest management.
    Keywords Grey Heron, biogeochemistry, soil metagenome, tree ring width, vegetation indices
    The name of the journal FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
    On-line resource for training course http://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/bitstream/handle/net/176851/F_fenvs_11_1197657.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
    URL https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1197657/full
    Please use this ID to quote from or refer to the card https://repository.kpfu.ru/eng/?p_id=285511&p_lang=2
    Resource files 
    File name Size (MB) Format  
    F_fenvs_11_1197657.pdf 3,97 pdf show / download

    Full metadata record