# Resilience and resistance of microbial communities against drought events, in a mature agroforestry system in Mediterranean area

Esther Guillot, Philippe Hinsinger, Lydie Dufour, Isabelle Bertrand

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Esther Guillot, Philippe Hinsinger, Lydie Dufour, Isabelle Bertrand. Resilience and resistance of microbial communities against drought events, in a mature agroforestry system in Mediterranean area. 5. International EcoSummit: Ecological Sustainability: Engineering Change, Aug 2016, Montpellier, France. 2016. hal-02740136

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# Resilience and resistance of microbial communities against drought events, in a mature agroforestry system in Mediterranean area

Guillot Esther ¹, Dufour Lydie ², Hinsinger Philippe ¹, Bertrand Isabelle ¹

1. UMR Eco&Sols, INRA, Montpellier, France

2. UMR System, INRA, Montpellier, France

esther.guillot@gmail.com

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LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE
POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT

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Institut de recherche
pour le développement

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Montpellier
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ECOTRONS

* Agroforestry systems are known to limit soil degradation, deeply store carbon and have positive impact on different indicators of soil quality.

* What is the impact of tree-crop associations on resistance and resilience of topsoil microbial communities?

* Our aim is to evaluate the resistance and the resilience of the microbial communities of topsoil along a spatial gradient from the tree line to the center of the intercrop, and in the monocrop treatment.

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* Stronger cumulated C mineralisation occurring close to the tree, decreasing with increasing distance from tree.

* Our data show difference in microbial resilience along the spatial gradient, but not difference in resistance.

* Microbial communities seem to be more sensitive to water stress and rewetting close to the tree than in the monocrop treatment.

References :

* Orwin, K.H., Wardle, D.A., 2004. New indices for quantifying the resistance and resilience of soil biota to exogenous disturbances. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36, 1907-1912