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Early Soil Scientists?!
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Topics Covered Today:
Soil Ecosystem/Food Web Dynamics
Portraits of the Soil Organisms
Impact of Soil Management
Key Ideas: 1. Ecosystem is microscale2. Name the types of organisms3. Organisms break down larger molecules into plant avail.
nutrients
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THE SOIL FOOD WEB
A GOOD SOIL Is A LIVE SOILUSDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
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MicroscaleEcosystem
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When are soil organisms active?
• Daily• Seasonally
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Where are the soil organisms?
• Rhizosphere• Litter• Humus• On & around soil aggregates
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Microbial Biomass with Depth
And other soil organisms!
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Components of Soil Organic Matter
Decomposing organic matter(active fraction) 33% - 50%
Stabilized organic matter
(humus) 33% - 50%
Fresh residue <10%
Living organisms
<5%
(Mites on leaf)
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The Soil Food Web
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Methods for Measuring the Food Web
Counting •Direct counts of individuals
•Plate counts of colonies
Activity levels •Respiration (CO2 production)
•Nitrification rates
•Decomposition rates
Cellular constituents •Biomass C, N, or P
•Enzymes
•Phospholipids
•DNA and RNA
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FOOD WEB & SOIL HEALTH
Mite feeding on
springtail
INTERACTIONS!!!
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Two Bugs are Better Than One
Effects of bacteria and bacterial-feeding nematodes on blue grama grass growth
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Complexity of the Soil Food Web in Several Ecosystems
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Typical Numbers of Soil Organisms in Healthy Ecosystems
Ag Land Prairie Forest
Organisms per gram (teaspoon) of soil
Bacteria 100 mil. -1 bil. 100 mil. -1 bil. 100 mil. -1 bil.
Fungi Several yards 10s – 100’s of yds 1-40 miles
(in conifers)
Protozoa 1000’s 1000’s 100,000’s
Nematodes 10-20 10’s – 100’s 100’s
Organisms per square foot
Arthropods < 100 500-2000 10,000-25,000
Earthworms 5-30 10-50 10-50
(0 in conifers)
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BACTERIA
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Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria
Nodules formed where Rhizobium bacteria infected soybean roots.
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Actinomycetes
• Bacterial cells• Grow like fungal hyphae
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FUNGI
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Fungi and Soil Quality
• Decompose carbon compounds• Retain nutrients in the soil• Bind soil particles• Food for the rest of the food web• Mycorrhizal fungi• Compete with plant pathogens
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Ectomycorrhizae
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Mushrooms:The fruiting body of basidiomycetes
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Fairy Rings
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Decomposition
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Bacteria vs. fungi
Fungidominatein Forests
Bacteriadominatein Grasslands& Ag Lands
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Mineralization and Immobilization
Organisms consume other organisms and excrete inorganic wastes.
Inorganic nutrients are usable by plants, and are mobile in soil.
Organic nutrients are stored in soil
organisms and organic matter.
Organisms take up and retain nutrients
as they grow.
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ALGAE DiatomsCyanobacteria – N fixing
Lichens (fungi+algae)
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PROTOZOA
Ciliates • Largest of the three
• Move by means of hair-like cilia
• Eat the other protozoa and bacteria
Amoebae • Also large
• Move by means of a temporary foot (pseudopod)
• Include testate amoebae (with shell-like covering), and naked amoebae
Flagellates • Smallest of the three
• Move by means of a few ship-like flagella.
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Flagellate
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Ciliate
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Amoebae
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Amoebae
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Soil-Dwelling “Vampires”
Amoebe eating
through fungi
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NEMATODES
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NEMATODES
Bacterial-feeding nematode
Fungal-feeding nematode
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Predatory Nematodes - Root-feeding nematodes
Lesion nematode
Root-feedingnematode
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Nematode Trappers
Fungal hyphal rings constrict when a nematode swims through.
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ARTHROPODS
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Types of Arthropods
Shredders
Predators
Herbivores
Fungal-feeders
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ShreddersMillipedes
Pillbugs
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Mites and Biodiversity
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Predators (1)
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Predators (2):Pseudoscorpions
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Predators (4): Centipedes
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Predators (5): Scorpions
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Predators (6):Spiders
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Herbivores
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Springtails (fungal feeders)• Abundant in many soils.• Feed on some disease-causing fungi.• Jump by slamming their tail down.
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EARTHWORMS
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Earthworms bury litter
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Earthworm burrow opening
and casts
Midden pile
Burrow opening
•Aeration, water infiltration
•Nutrients
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Night crawlers and tillage
With Lumbricus terrestrisWithout Lumbricus terrestris
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• Fire, Logging and Farming can reduce organic matter in the soil More Fungi Less nutrients Less CEC, porosity and water infiltration, ???
Land management affects soil organisms
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• Soil biological crusts
• Biosolids
• Soil compaction
• Lack of vegetation or plant litter
• Carbon sequestration
Management affects soil organisms
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• A well managed soil is a
Good SoilGood Soil
A GOOD SOIL is a
LIVE LIVE SOILSOIL
• A LIVE SOIL is a Resilient SoilResilient Soil