Microbial activity responses to water stress in agricultural soils from simple and complex crop rotations

Schnecker, Jörg; Meeden, D. Boone; Calderon, Francisco; Cavigelli, Michel; Lehman, R. Michael; Tiemann, Lisa K.; Grandy, A. Stuart

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-547-2021

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-547-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-547-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

Original research article

|

26 Aug 2021

Original research article |

| 26 Aug 2021

Microbial activity responses to water stress in agricultural soils from simple and complex crop rotations

Jörg Schnecker, D. Boone Meeden, Francisco Calderon, Michel Cavigelli, R. Michael Lehman, Lisa K. Tiemann, and A. Stuart Grandy

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-547-2021-supplement

Data sets

Soil data Jörg Schnecker 11353/10.1220845

Respiration rates Jörg Schnecker 11353/10.1220845

Short summary

Drought and flooding challenge agricultural systems and their management globally. Here we investigated the response of soils from long-term agricultural field sites with simple and diverse crop rotations to either drought or flooding. We found that irrespective of crop rotation complexity, soil and microbial properties were more resistant to flooding than to drought and highly resilient to drought and flooding during single or repeated stress pulses.