《Impacts of Nighttime Warming on the Soil Nematode Community in a Winter Wheat Field of Yangtze Delta Plain China》.pdfVIP

Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2014, 13(7): 1477-1485 July 2014 RESEARCH ARTICLE Impacts of Nighttime Warming on the Soil Nematode Community in a Winter Wheat Field of Yangtze Delta Plain, China 1 2 3 1 1 SONG Zhen-wei , ZHANG Bin , TIAN Yun-lu , DENG Ai-xing , ZHENG Cheng-yan , Md Nurul 4 4 1 Islam , Md Abdul Mannaf and ZHANG Wei-jian 1 Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology Production, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, P.R.China 2 Institute of Rice Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, P.R.China 3 College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P.R.China 4 Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Joydebpur Gazipur-1701, Bangladesh Abstract Changes in the soil nematode community induced by global warming may have a considerable influence on agro-ecosystem functioning. However, the impacts of predicted warming on nematode community in farmland (e.g., winter wheat field) have not been well documented. Therefore, a field experiment with free air temperature increase (FATI) was conducted to investigate the responses of the soil nematode community to nighttime warming in a winter wheat field of Yangtze Delta Plain, China, during 2007 to 2009. Nighttime warming (NW) by 1.8°C at 5-cm soil depth had no significant impact on the total nematode abundance compared to un-warmed control (CK). However, NW significantly affected the nematode community structure. Warming favored the bacterivores and fungivores, such as Acrobeles , Monhystera , Rhabditis, and Rhabdontolaimus in bacterivores, and Filenchus i