Quasi-steady uptake and bacterial community assembly in a mathematical model of soil-phosphorus mobility

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2020.110530MaRDI QIDQ2226006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors I. Moyles, J. G. Donohue, A. C. Fowler

Publication date 11 February 2021

Published in Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04557

zbMATH Keywords

carbon: phosphorus couplingmathematical ecologymicrobial dynamicsmicrobial successionnutrient cyclingplant-soil (below-ground) interactionsscarce nutrients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to biology (92-10) Microbiology (92C70) Plant biology (92C80) Ecology (92D40)

Abstract: We mathematically model the uptake of phosphorus by a soil community consisting of a plant and two bacterial groups: copiotrophs and oligotrophs. Four equilibrium states emerge, one for each of the species monopolising the resource and dominating the community and one with coexistence of all species. We show that the dynamics are controlled by the ratio of chemical adsorption to bacterial death permitting either oscillatory states or quasi-steady uptake. We show how a steady state can emerge which has soil and plant nutrient content unresponsive to increased fertilization. However, the additional fertilization supports the copiotrophs leading to community reassembly. Our results demonstrate the importance of time-series measurements in nutrient uptake experiments.

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