Ecosystem Composition Controls the Early Fate of Rare Earth Elements during Incipient Soil Genesis
| Autor: | Carmen I. Burghelea, Kenneth J. Domanik, Maria A Palacios Menendez, Raina M. Maier, Jon Chorover, Travis E. Huxman, Jennifer K. Presler, Mary Kay Amistadi, Dragos G. Zaharescu, Katerina Dontsova, Maria O. Vaquera-Ibarra, Emily E. Gaddis, Edward A. Hunt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Abiotic component
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences biology Chemistry fungi food and beverages Weathering 15. Life on land 010502 geochemistry & geophysics biology.organism_classification Phosphate 01 natural sciences Arbuscular mycorrhiza chemistry.chemical_compound Denudation Environmental chemistry Rhyolite Ecosystem Mycorrhiza 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| DOI: | 10.1101/061846 |
| Popis: | The rare earth elements (REE) are of increasing importance in a variety of science and economic fields, including (bio)geosciences, paleoecology, astrobiology, and mining. Despite their great promise, REE fractionation in early plant-microbe-rock systems has largely remained elusive. We tested the hypothesis that REE mass-partitioning during the incipient weathering of basalt, rhyolite, granite and schist depends on the activity of microbes, plant, and arbuscular mycorrhiza. Pore-water element abundances reflected a rapid transition from abiotic to biotic weathering, the latter associated with lower aqueous loss and higher uptake. Abiotic dissolution contributed 38.6+/-19% to total denudation. Microbes incremented denudation, particularly in rhyolite, this effect associating with decreased bioavailable solid fractions in this rock. Total mobilization (aqueous+uptake) was ten times greater in planted treatments compared to abiotic control, REE masses in plant generally exceeding those in water. Plants of larger biomass further increased solid fractions, consistent with soil genesis. Mycorrhiza had a generally positive effect on total mobilization. The incipient REE weathering was dominated by inorganic dissolution enhanced by biotic respiration, the patterns of denudation largely dictated by mineralogy. A consistent biotic signature was observed in La:phosphate, mobilization:solid fraction in all rocks, as well as in the general pattern of denudation and uptake. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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