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Hu, Junwei, Gebremikael, Mesfin Tsegaye, Tytgat, Bjorn, Dumack, Kenneth ORCID: 0000-0001-8798-0483, Hassi, Ummehani, Hosseini, Pezhman Salehi, Sleutel, Steven, Verleyen, Elie and De Neve, Stefaan (2022). Combined selective gamma irradiation and pulverized soil inoculation for ecologically relevant soil microfauna studies. Appl. Soil Ecol., 169. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER. ISSN 1873-0272

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Abstract

The separate and collective role of soil nematodes and protists at community level in soil biogeochemical processes remains poorly quantified due to the lack of appropriate methodologies to study them independently from other soil biota under conditions emulating natural soil. Here we present a methodological exploration for the selective removal of nematodes and protists using gamma irradiation and the subsequent reinoculation with metazoan-free soil powder inoculum that allows reconstructing a complex microbial food web comprising the native microflora and soil protist communities, without other fauna. Nematodes, and culturable flagellates and ciliates were removed from 6 kGy onwards, while a small fraction of the amoebae survived (8% of the entire protist population) at 16 kGy but were totally removed at 27 kGy. Reinoculation with pulverized soil powder successfully established a protist community of similar size and composition as the control soil as assessed by both amplicon sequencing-based detection and microscopic observation after cultivation. A viable native microflora community remained from 6 to 16 kGy doses, but microbial activity was completely inhibited at 27 kGy. We suggest that, in ecological relevant experiments where selective removal of nematodes or other fauna is the purpose and protist community is meant to be kept intact, gamma irradiation needs to be followed routinely by soil powder inoculation in order to restore the suppressed protist community. This experiment also opens up new perspectives for studying the ecological roles of the entire protist community or specific groups thereof (flagellates and ciliates) in real soil and in the presence of a viable native microflora community.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hu, Junwei UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Gebremikael, Mesfin Tsegaye UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tytgat, Bjorn UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Dumack, Kenneth UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8798-0483 UNSPECIFIED Hassi, Ummehani UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hosseini, Pezhman Salehi UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sleutel, Steven UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Verleyen, Elie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED De Neve, Stefaan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-572147
DOI:	10.1016/j.apsoil.2021.104223
Journal or Publication Title:	Appl. Soil Ecol.
Volume:	169
Date:	2022
Publisher:	ELSEVIER
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1873-0272
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language FREE-LIVING NEMATODES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; FOOD-WEB; ORGANIC-MATTER; MICROSCALE DISTRIBUTION; MICROCOSM EXPERIMENTS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; EXTRACTION METHOD; SPECIES RICHNESS; FOREST FLOOR Multiple languages Soil Science Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57214