Effects of Seven-Year Fertilization Reclamation on Bacterial Community in a Coal Mining Subsidence Area in Shanxi, China

Li Li, Tingliang Li, Huisheng Meng, Yinghe Xie, Jie Zhang and Jianping Hong
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Li Li: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, China
Tingliang Li: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, China
Huisheng Meng: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, China
Yinghe Xie: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, China
Jie Zhang: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, China
Jianping Hong: College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: The restoration of soil fertility and microbial communities is the key to the soil reclamation and ecological reconstruction in coal mine subsidence areas. However, the response of soil bacterial communities to reclamation is still not well understood. Here, we studied the bacterial communities in fertilizer-reclaimed soil (CK, without fertilizer; CF, chemical fertilizer; M, manure) in the Lu’an reclamation mining region and compared them with those in adjacent subsidence soil (SU) and farmland soil (FA). We found that the compositions of dominant phyla in the reclaimed soil differed greatly from those in the subsidence soil and farmland soil ( p < 0.05). The related sequences of Acidobacteria , Chloroflexi , and Nitrospirae were mainly from the subsided soil, whereas those of Alphaproteobacteria , Planctomycetes , and Deltaproteobacteria were mainly derived from the farmland soil. Fertilization affected the bacterial community composition in the reclaimed soil, and bacteria richness and diversity increased significantly with the accumulation of soil nutrients after 7 years of reclamation ( p < 0.05). Moreover, soil properties, especially SOM and pH, were found to play a key role in the restoration of the bacterial community in the reclaimed soil. The results are helpful to the study of soil fertility improvement and ecological restoration in mining areas.

Keywords: coal mining; soil reclamation; bacterial community; bacterial diversity; high-throughput sequencing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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