Affiliation:
1. College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
2. School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
3. School of Geographic Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China
Abstract
BackgroundPaddies are an important anthropogenic source of methane emissions to the atmosphere, and they are impacted by heavy metal pollution. Nickel (Ni) and cobalt (Co) pollution might either enhance or mitigate CH4emission from paddy soils due to the total amounts of metals, bioavailability and functional microbial activity and composition.MethodsAn incubation experiment was conducted, and different Ni and Co concentrations were added to test the effects of trace metals on methane production in paddy soil. The archaea community structure and the abundance of methanogen functional groups in the paddy soil with added Ni and Co were detected using high-throughput sequencing and quantitative PCR based on the 16S rRNA and mcrA (methyl coenzyme M reductase) genes, respectively.ResultsThe highest methane production rate was 561 mg CH4kg−1dry soil d−1with the addition of 50 mg kg−1Ni and 684 mg CH4kg−1dry soil d−1with the addition of 25 mg kg−1Co. Accordingly, themcrA gene was most abundant in the 50 mg kg−1Ni addition (3.1 × 106 ± 0.5 × 106copies g−1dry soil). The lowestmcrA gene abundance was detected in the 500 mg kg−1Co addition (9.2× 105 ± 0.4 × 105copies g−1dry soil). The dominant methanogens were Methanobacterium, Methanosarcina, Methanocella, Methanomassiliicoccus, Bathyarchaeota, and Rice Cluster I (RC-I), and the relative abundances of these groups were higher than 1% in the Ni and Co treatments. Additionally, the archaeal compositions differed significantly in the soils with various Ni and Co additions. The most abundant Methanococcus spp. represented 51.3% of the composition in the 50 mg kg−1Ni addition, which was significantly higher than that of the control (12.9% to 17.5%).DiscussionOur results indicated that the contamination of soil by Ni and Co significantly affected total methanogens abundance and specific methanogen functional groups. Ni and Co additions to paddy soil promoted methanogenic activity at low concentrations, while they had inhibitory effects at high concentrations. Because paddy soils largely contribute to methane emissions and are increasingly exposed to heavy metal pollution, our results show that future assessments of greenhouse gas flux from paddy soils should take into account the effects of pollution by Ni and Co.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Program of China
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine,General Neuroscience
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