Soil bacterial community responses to cadmium and lead stabilization during ecological restoration of an abandoned mine

Zhao, Shuwen; Qin, Lanfang; Wang, Lifu; Sun, Xiaoyi; Yu, Lei; Wang, Meng; Chen, Shibao

doi:10.1111/sum.12797

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“…Although establishing vegetation on mine tailings could decrease wind and surface erosion, it may also reduce the leaching and movement of heavy metals from the soil surface and increase the accumulation of heavy metals. Our results support the notion that the implementation of revegetation near tailings could reduce the ecological risk of heavy metal leaching by immobilizing and stabilizing soil heavy metals through plant roots and exudates as well as aggregate characteristics and stability Zhao et al 2022). Moreover, natural grasslands allowed more heavy metals to accumulate on the soil surface than arti cial forests.…”

Section: Environmental Risks Of Heavy Metal Contamination In Soil Agg...supporting

confidence: 83%

“…In addition, the fate of heavy metals in soil depends on the plant species and soil environment. Co-planting of multiple plant species has more plant diversity, biomass and plant cover than monoculture planting and is considered a promising phytomanagement for improving soil environmental quality (Alvarez-Rogel et al 2021; Erktan et al 2016;Zhao et al 2022). For example, coplanting Brassica napus and Salix nigra had better results on soil structure and copper stabilization compared to planting alone (Massenet et al 2021).…”

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Phytomanagement improves soil aggregation and ecological security near tailings

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Liu²,

Fan³

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Aims Revegetation is an effective measure to improve soil structure and nutrients in erosion-prone areas. However, little is known about the impact of diverse phytomanagement of revegetation on soil quality and ecological security near tailings.Methods We investigated the water-stability and soil aggregate nutrients and assessed the associated risk of heavy metal contamination under multiple phytomanagement (natural grassland, artificial forest, and artificial forest mixed with shrubs and herbs) near abandoned tailings on the Loess Plateau, comparing with the adjacent bare land.Results The results showed that phytomanagement significantly enhanced soil aggregate stability, as demonstrated by the rise in soil macro-aggregate proportion (> 0.25 mm, 10.5–22.4%) and geometric mean diameter (16.3–44.0%). Furthermore, the soil organic carbon content (SOC), glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), aromatic-C, and alkene-C in macro-aggregates increased alongside aggregate stability enhancement. The increased stability of soil aggregates following phytomanagement could reduce the risk of heavy metal leaching, but the increased concentration of heavy metals in the aggregates. In addition, the management of artificial forests mixed with shrubs and herbs greatly reduced the ecological risk of heavy metal pollution compared to other phytomanagement. SOC and GRSP were identified as key factors influencing the risk of heavy metal contamination in soil aggregates following phytomanagement.Conclusion Our study highlights that revegetation of tailings improves soil quality and ecological security by increasing the stability of soil structure as well as SOC and GRSP within the aggregates. Artificial forests mixed with shrubs and herbs could be an optimal phytomanagement to achieve environmental sustainability in tailings areas.

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Section: Environmental Risks Of Heavy Metal Contamination In Soil Agg...supporting

confidence: 83%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phytomanagement improves soil aggregation and ecological security near tailings

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Liu²,

Fan³

et al. 2023

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“…Rhizosphere soil pH was measured by a pH meter (Denver Instrument UB‐7, ultra BASIC, Denver Instrument, USA) after mixing samples with deionized water (soil: water = 1:2.5 w/w) and shaking for 1 h. Soil organic carbon (OC) was measured using the potassium bichromate titrimetric method. An unbuffered silver–thiourea method was used to measure cation exchange capacity (CEC) (Zhao et al, 2022).…”

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“…Except that the intercropping system to the field can change the bioavailability of heavy metals, Wang (Wang et al, 2020) studied that intercropping alligator flag with rice would therefore make it possible to effectively remediate moderate Cd‐contamination farmland with a huge potential of more than 10 million hectares in China, and also to safely produce rice at the same time. Moreover, soil physical and chemical properties, for example, pH, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) were also affected, which significantly caused the change of Cd bioavailability in the soil (Xu et al, 2021; Zhao et al, 2022). Kang (Kang et al, 2021) studied that in the intercropping system of rice with Sesbania cannabina L., the concentration of Cd in grains of rice were significantly lower than that of monocropped rice, decreasing by 40%, which further demonstrated that intercropping can reduce the effectiveness of Cd.…”

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Intercropping with herbs minimizes cadmium availability through altering physicochemical dynamics and metabolite profiles in wheat rhizosphere

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Sun

et al. 2022

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For the past few years, the production of safe crops in Cd‐contaminated soil has attracted more and more attention, and the intercropping of wheat and herbaceous plants has gradually become an effective way. However, how the physicochemical and metabolic processes because of the intercropping change Cd availability are still unclear. In this study, we studied the influence of changes in soil physicochemical properties induced by intercropping of wheat with different herbs on soil Cd availability of Cd. Meanwhile, we innovatively studied the effect of intercropping on rhizosphere metabolites and evaluated the impact on Cd transfer. Results showed that the highest wheat biomass was presented in the intercropping system with the Cichorium intybus L. (W4) and Aus hypochondriacus L. (W5) increasing by 57.66% and 54.05% individually, compared with monocropping, while W1, W2, and W3 increasing slightly. Further, the Cd accumulation in wheat grains under W4 and W5 treatment decreased by 44.95% and 43.12%, respectively. Structural equation model confirmed that the increased pH, CEC contributed to the decreased Cd availability in soil, as well the changed metabolic profiles in wheat rhizosphere after intercropping. Specially, up‐regulation of fatty acid metabolism allowed wheat plants to maintain a normal intracellular environment under stress conditions. Similarly, up‐regulation of saccharide and amino acid metabolism induced the accumulation of sugars and proteins, which positively increased wheat biomass and Cd‐binding proteins, thus inhibiting the migration of soil Cd into wheat tissue. Collectively, this study provided reasonable insights towards understanding the metabolic mechanisms how intercropping altered Cd availability.

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“…Recent attempts have been made to reduce organic carbon loss from soils for climate change mitigation, whose measures include crop residue incorporation (Lupwayi et al 2022;Zhu et al 2022a), organic matter stabilization with clay and metal oxides (Baumann et al 2022;Di et al 2022), fertilizer application (da Silva et al 2022;Gasser et al 2022;Qiu et al 2022;Thakur et al 2022;Zhang et al 2022b), reduced or conservational tillage (Ferrara et al 2022;He et al 2022a;Islam et al 2022), rotational grazing (Abdalla et al 2022;Dong et al 2021), silvopastoral system (Aryal et al 2019;Valenzuela Que et al 2022), and ecological restoration (Howson et al 2022;Wang et al 2020b;Zhao et al 2022). Among them, application of biochar is a promising one due to simultaneous achievement of waste management, nutrient delivery, contaminant immobilization, and climate change mitigation.…”

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Role of biochar toward carbon neutrality

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Carbon neutrality by the mid-twenty-first century is a grand challenge requiring technological innovations. Biochar, a traditional soil amendment which has been used for fertility improvement and contaminant remediation, has revealed new vitality in this context. In this review we highlight the huge potential of biochar application in different fields to mitigate as high as 2.56 × 109 t CO2e total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year, accounting for 5.0% of the global GHG emissions. Soil applications of biochar as either a controlled-release fertilizer or an immobilization agent offer improved soil health while simultaneously suppressing the emissions of CH4 and N2O. Non-soil applications of biochar also contribute to carbon neutrality in unique ways. Firstly, biochar application as a ruminant feed decreases CH4 emissions via physical sorption and enhanced activities of methanotrophs. Secondly, biochar can be used as a green catalyst for biorefinery. Besides, biochar as an additive to Portland cement and low impact development (LID) infrastructure lowers the carbon footprint and builds resilience to climate change. Furthermore, biochar can be used as novel batteries and supercapacitors for energy storage purposes. Finally, the high CO2 adsorption capacity makes it possible for biochar being used as a sorbent for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS). We advocate that future research should further explore the effectiveness of biochar systems for climate change mitigation in large scale applications, and assess the economic and social viability of local biochar systems to combat climate change. Graphical Abstract

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Soil bacterial community responses to cadmium and lead stabilization during ecological restoration of an abandoned mine

Cited by 15 publications

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Phytomanagement improves soil aggregation and ecological security near tailings

Phytomanagement improves soil aggregation and ecological security near tailings

Intercropping with herbs minimizes cadmium availability through altering physicochemical dynamics and metabolite profiles in wheat rhizosphere

Role of biochar toward carbon neutrality

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