Rhizosphere priming: a nutrient perspective

Rhizosphere priming is the change in decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) caused by root activity. Rhizosphere priming plays a crucial role in soil carbon (C) dynamics and their response to global climate change. Rhizosphere priming may be affected by soil nutrient availability, but rhizosphere priming itself can also affect nutrient supply to plants. These interactive effects may be of particular relevance in understanding the sustained increase in plant growth and nutrient supply in response to a rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration. We examined how these interactions were affected by elevated CO2 in two similar semiarid grassland field studies. We found that an increase in rhizosphere priming enhanced the release of nitrogen (N) through decomposition of a larger fraction of SOM in one study, but not in the other. We postulate that rhizosphere priming may enhance N supply to plants in systems that are N limited, but that rhizosphere priming may not occur in systems that are phosphorus (P) limited. Under P limitation, rhizodeposition may be used for mobilization of P, rather than for decomposition of SOM. Therefore, with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, rhizosphere priming may play a larger role in affecting C sequestration in N poor than in P poor soils.


INTRODUCTION
Rhizosphere priming is the change in soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition caused by plant root activity that is often associated with rhizodeposition (Kuzyakov, 2002). A substantial fraction of net carbon assimilation goes into the soil as rhizodeposition. Estimates of how much C is allocated to rhizodeposition vary widely among plant species, with plant age, soil type, and nutrient availability, and are on average between 11 and 17% of net fixed C (Nguyen, 2003;Jones et al., 2009). Rhizodeposition is an important energy source for the microbial production of extra-cellular enzymes that break down SOM (Schimel and Weintraub, 2003;Blagodatskaya and Kuzyakov, 2008;Averill and Finzi, 2011). The subsequent change in SOM decomposition (i.e., the rhizosphere priming effect) is usually measured by comparing the CO 2 produced from SOM in a soil with and without plants. Often, CO 2 produced from SOM in planted soil is greater than in the unplanted or fallow soil, and is referred to as a positive priming effect (Kuzyakov, 2002). However, smaller CO 2 production in planted compared to unplanted soil, or a negative priming effect, has also been observed (Cheng, 1996;Bader and Cheng, 2007). Although rhizosphere priming effects have frequently been reported in a variety of soil-plant systems, the mechanisms behind these effects remain unclear (Kuzyakov, 2010).

EFFECTS OF SOIL NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY ON RHIZOSPHERE PRIMING
The direction and magnitude of rhizosphere priming have been related to soil nutrient availability. Plants and microbes require C and nutrients within specific boundaries and at the same time affect the relative availability of C and nutrients in their immediate environment, the rhizosphere. Because of this close interdependence between C and nutrients, the nutrient status of the soil is an important factor for rhizosphere priming. Several hypotheses have been proposed explaining the relationship between rhizosphere priming and soil nutrient availability (Figure 1). First, in soils of low nutrient availability, inputs of energy-rich carbon compounds from roots may be used for the production of extra-cellular enzymes that can release nutrients locked in SOM (Asmar et al., 1994;Brzostek et al., 2012). Under these conditions, microbes may use root exudates to release nutrients thereby meeting their nutrient requirement. This has also been referred to as the microbial mining hypothesis (Craine et al., 2007;Fontaine et al., 2011). Because rhizosphere priming effects are usually measured through changes in CO 2 production, microbial mining for nutrients associated with rhizosphere priming should only relate to nutrients released through oxidation of SOM accompanied by the production CO 2 . Much of the N in humified SOM is released through oxidation (biological mineralization). While some organic N compounds (proteins, amino acids, amino sugars) do not need to be oxidized for the N to be utilized, the C skeletons of these compounds are often catabolized by microbes thereby producing CO 2 . On the other hand, organic P is mostly released through hydrolysis without CO 2 production (biochemical mineralization, McGill and Cole, 1981). Therefore, the microbial mining hypothesis may be more important for N than for P.
Second, in soils of high nutrient availability, a negative priming effect may occur. Under conditions of high nutrient availability, there is less need for microbes to mine nutrients, but instead, FIGURE 1 | Hypothetical relationship between soil nutrient availability and rhizosphere priming. Three nutrient-centered hypotheses are illustrated: Microbial mining: microbes utilize rhizodeposition to mine for nutrients in SOM thereby causing a positive rhizosphere priming effect when nutrient availability is low; Preferential substrate utilization: microbes switch from decomposing SOM to utilizing rhizodeposition when nutrient availability is high; Competition: microbes compete for nutrients with plants causing a negative rhizosphere priming effect because microbial growth and decomposition are nutrient limited. Both positive and negative rhizosphere priming can occur under low nutrient availability (gray area). microbes may switch from decomposing recalcitrant SOM to utilizing labile root exudates for their carbon and energy requirements (Blagodatskaya et al., 2007;Guenet et al., 2010). As a result, decomposition of SOM could decrease with inputs of root exudates. This has been referred to as the preferential substrate utilization hypothesis (Cheng, 1999) (Figure 1).
A third nutrient-centered mechanism that has been proposed for explaining negative rhizosphere priming effects is when plants and microbes compete for the same nutrients. When plants remove nutrients from the soil through uptake they may reduce microbial decomposition (Dijkstra et al., 2010b;Pausch et al., 2013). The resulting negative rhizosphere priming effect may be stronger when nutrient availability is already low and limiting both plant and microbial growth (competition hypothesis, Cheng, 1999) (Figure 1). Production of rhizodeposits may also be a strategy for slow-growing plant species to lower soil N availability thereby outcompeting neighboring fast-growing plant species (Meier et al., 2009).
Low soil nutrient conditions can invoke both positive and negative rhizosphere priming (Figure 1). Clearly, there is a need to better understand why rhizodeposition in soils with low nutrient conditions sometimes result in enhanced microbial mining for nutrients (and a positive rhizosphere priming effect) and at other times in enhanced competition for nutrients inducing reduced microbial activity (and a negative rhizosphere priming effect). Several explanations may be involved in observations of positive and negative priming effects, including soil microbial community effects, quality and stoichiometry of the root exudates, and the relative availability of N and P, while none of these explanations are mutually exclusive.
First, dominance of one group of microbes over the other could potentially determine whether rhizodeposition results in negative or positive rhizosphere priming under low nutrient conditions. Microbes vary tremendously in their ability to decompose SOM. While rhizodeposition may primarily increase growth and activity of fast growing microbes (r-strategists), a proportion of the rhizodeposition may be utilized by slow growing microbes decomposing recalcitrant organic matter (K-strategists), particularly when nutrient availability is low (Fontaine et al., 2003). Fungi, gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria have all been associated with enhanced SOM decomposition with increased rhizodeposition and input of other labile C (Nottingham et al., 2009;Bird et al., 2011;Fontaine et al., 2011;Garcia-Pausas and Paterson, 2011). Bacteria may be more sensitive to competition for nutrients with plants than fungi because fungal hyphae have a greater ability to explore the soil (Otten et al., 2001), and therefore fungi may escape competition for nutrients with plants. Furthermore, mycorrhizae, a special group of fungi that grow in direct association with plants, may supply nutrients directly to plants in return for plant C, thereby reducing nutrient competition between plants and mycorrhizae (Koide, 1991).
If the soil microbial community is dominated by bacteria that are activated close to the root, then the microbial competition hypothesis (or preferential substrate utilization hypothesis under high nutrient availability) may prevail resulting in negative rhizosphere priming. These bacteria would be dominated by r-strategists and utilize fresh exudates (Dorodnikov et al., 2009). On the other hand, if the soil microbial community is dominated by fungi, supply of plant C may stimulate fungi to mine for nutrients further away from the roots resulting in positive rhizosphere priming. These fungal decomposers act more like K-strategists, and may be saprotrophic or mycorrhizal (Talbot et al., 2008).
Second, the direction and magnitude of rhizosphere priming under low nutrient conditions may depend on the type of organic compounds released by plants. Plant roots release a myriad of organic compounds, not only from root exudation, but also from mucilage, as sloughed cells via mechanical abrasion, and from root death (Jones et al., 2004(Jones et al., , 2009). Because these compounds have different stoichiometric and energetic properties, rhizodeposition may have variable effects on priming (Mary et al., 1993;Hamer and Marschner, 2005;Kuzyakov and Bol, 2006). Although many of these compounds often showed idiosyncratic priming effects, root exudates that generate more alkalinity during their decomposition or contain more N have been shown to cause greater priming (Rukshana et al., 2012;Drake et al., 2013).
Third, contrasting rhizosphere priming effects under low nutrient availability may occur because priming also depends on soil properties such as total C content and texture (Zhang et al., 2013), mineralogy (Rasmussen et al., 2007), pH (Blagodatskaya and Kuzyakov, 2008;Luo et al., 2011), and heavy metal concentration (Ohm et al., 2011). Here we propose that the contrasting effects of rhizosphere priming under low nutrient availability can also be related to the relative availability of N and P in the soil.

N AND P CYCLING AND THEIR ROLE IN RHIZOSPHERE PRIMING
As discussed above, the supply of N to plants and microbes in soils predominantly occurs through oxidation of organic matter whereby N is mineralized. Phosphorus can also be released from SOM, but in soils with low organic P, inorganic sources are an important source for P supply (Walker and Syers, 1976). For instance, in calcareous soils much of the soil P is contained in calcium phosphates and the supply of P is regulated by precipitation/dissolution equilibria with P in soil solution (Lajtha and Bloomer, 1988;Tunesi et al., 1999). Similarly, in many acidic soils, P is bound to Al and Fe oxides, and the supply of P to plants is controlled by adsorption/desorption processes (Sanyal and Datta, 1991). Furthermore, much of the organic P is present in soil as monoesters and diesters (Doolette and Smernik, 2011). The P in these bonds can be released by hydrolysis with the help of phosphatase enzymes (without causing CO 2 production, Nannipieri et al., 2011), rather than through oxidation of organic matter (causing CO 2 production). Therefore, the supply of N and P to plants is decoupled in many soil types (McGill and Cole, 1981).
Terrestrial ecosystems are frequently limited by P (Elser et al., 2007;Harpole et al., 2011). Microbes in particular have a high P requirement relative to N, where microbial N:P ratios are often lower than the plant or SOM N:P ratios from the same system (Cleveland and Liptzin, 2007). Microbial activity and growth can be limited by P, which has mostly been observed in highly weathered tropical soils (Cleveland et al., 2002;Ehlers et al., 2010), but also in a calcareous (Raiesi and Ghollarata, 2006), peat (Amador and Jones, 1993), and boreal forest soils (Giesler et al., 2002).
Whether the input of C compounds via rhizodeposition results in altered SOM decomposition may depend on whether microbial activity is N or P limited. In soils where microbes are more limited by N than by P, root exudates could be utilized to mine for N through enhanced SOM decomposition. On the other hand, in soils where microbes are more limited by P than by N, root exudates are not needed by microbes for releasing N from SOM, but instead, could be used to mobilize P from inorganic or organic sources. Root exudates could be utilized by microbes to produce phosphatase extracellular enzymes releasing P through hydrolysis (Dakora and Phillips, 2002). Increased levels of microbial biomass and phosphatase extracellular enzymes have been observed in the rhizosphere (Chen et al., 2002), but it is unclear to what degree phosphatase extracellular enzymes are produced by plants or microbes (George et al., 2011). Root exudates can also directly increase P mobilization by increasing desorption and solubilisation from mineral surfaces through ligand exchange and dissolution (Dakora and Phillips, 2002;George et al., 2011). We hypothesise that microbial N limitation results in rhizosphere priming, while microbial P limitation does not (Figure 2). After discussing the effects of rhizosphere priming on nutrient availability, we will illustrate this hypothesis with examples of rhizosphere priming effects that were observed under elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentration.

RHIZOSPHERE PRIMING EFFECTS ON NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY
While some research has been done on how rhizosphere priming is affected by nutrient availability, particularly N availability, considerably less is known regarding the consequences of rhizosphere priming for nutrient cycling and plant nutrient uptake. From an evolutionary perspective it could be argued that the loss of expensive energy-rich carbon compounds into the soil through root exudation should result in some benefit to the plant. Does the stimulation of SOM decomposition through rhizosphere priming result in increased nutrient availability to plants or does it only result in increased microbial nutrient immobilization? There are only a limited number of studies that have tried to tackle this question. Positive priming effects should be associated with net N mineralization, but Cheng (2009) observed that the amount of net mineral N released from the accelerated SOM decomposition associated with the rhizosphere priming effect was much lower than the expected amount based on the C:N ratio of the SOM. This suggests that much of the N associated with the increase in SOM decomposition remained in the microbial biomass or was returned to the organic soil pool. On the other hand, a range of positive rhizosphere priming effects were observed among six different soil type-plant species combinations that also resulted in substantial increases in net N mineralization . Except for one soil-plant combination, rhizosphere priming effects were positively related to gross N mineralization and plant N uptake, suggesting that rhizosphere priming not only enhanced microbial mining for N, but also enhanced the release of N for plant uptake. An increase in net N mineralization with root exudation could also occur because of microbial grazing by protozoa (Clarholm, 1985) creating a microbial loop. According to this microbial loop hypothesis, increased microbial growth in response to root exudation causes increased microbial immobilization of N, which in return is released for plant uptake after grazing by protozoa or nematodes.
However, there appears to be a fine balance between how rhizosphere priming affects microbial mineralization and immobilization. Microbial immobilization increased more than gross N mineralization with increased root exudation of three species of tree seedlings so that net N mineralization was reduced at high rates of root exudation (Bengtson et al., 2012). In modeling and field experiments Drake et al. (2013), simulated exudates and showed that adding C alone enhanced SOM decomposition, but adding C and N together stimulated SOM decomposition and N mineralization significantly more than C alone. These results suggest that both quantity and quality of root exudation have important consequences for the release of N through rhizosphere priming.

RHIZOSPHERE PRIMING UNDER ELEVATED ATMOSPHERIC [CO 2 ]
Atmospheric CO 2 concentrations have increased by more than 35% during the last 150 years and will continue to rise in the future (Forster et al., 2007), causing large impacts on C cycling in terrestrial ecosystems (Heimann and Reichstein, 2008). The immediate plant response to an increase in atmospheric CO 2 is often an increase in photosynthesis and net primary production (Amthor, 1995). Several studies have indicated that elevated CO 2 also increases rhizodeposition (Darrah, 1996;Pendall et al., 2004;Fransson and Johansson, 2010), and could potentially increase rhizosphere priming. Indeed, increased loss of soil C or mineralassociated organic matter under elevated CO 2 has been associated with greater rhizosphere priming (Carney et al., 2007;Hofmockel et al., 2011b).
An increase in SOM decomposition caused by rhizosphere priming under elevated CO 2 may also affect N cycling, and this has important ramifications for long-term responses of terrestrial ecosystems to elevated CO 2 . Plant growth in most terrestrial ecosystems is N limited (Vitousek and Howarth, 1991). It has been suggested that without external input of N, elevated CO 2 will reduce N availability to plants in the long-term and that therefore plant growth responses to elevated CO 2 cannot be sustained (Luo et al., 2004). A crucial component of this concept of Progressive N Limitation (PNL) is the expectation that N availability is reduced under elevated CO 2 because of increased plant N uptake and immobilization in long-lived plant biomass, and because of increased microbial N immobilization associated with increased C inputs into the soil. Indeed, elevated CO 2 often reduces N availability in the soil (Díaz et al., 1993;Gill et al., 2002;Reich et al., 2006). Tree growth in a temperate forest increased during the first 6 years in response to elevated CO 2 , but this effect disappeared after 11 years (Norby et al., 2010). It was suggested that a decline in soil N availability constrained the plant growth responses to elevated CO 2 in the long-term thereby providing support for the PNL concept.
However, PNL has not always been observed (Luo et al., 2006) and rhizosphere priming may be one of the mechanisms responsible for the lack of PNL. Tree growth in a temperate forest in North Carolina was still higher after 10 years of elevated CO 2 (McCarthy et al., 2010). Moreover, plant N uptake remained higher under elevated CO 2 , which appears to have caused the sustained increase in tree growth in response to elevated CO 2 in this study (Drake et al., 2011). While some of this extra N may have been taken up from deeper soil layers (Finzi et al., 2006), it was also shown that elevated CO 2 enhanced root exudation and N release from SOM decomposition through rhizosphere priming (Phillips et al., 2011(Phillips et al., , 2012 Increased rhizosphere priming and plant N uptake under elevated CO 2 has also been observed in several other studies (Martín-Olmedo et al., 2002;de Graaff et al., 2009;Hofmockel et al., 2011a). These results suggest that enhanced rhizosphere priming could delay or at least alleviate PNL under elevated CO 2 .

CONTRASTING ELEVATED CO 2 EFFECTS ON N CYCLING IN SEMIARID GRASSLANDS
Sustained increases in N cycling and plant N uptake under elevated CO 2 were also observed in a semiarid grassland in Colorado, USA (King et al., 2004;Dijkstra et al., 2008). Enhanced N cycling and microbial mining for N under elevated CO 2 was illustrated with a 15 N tracer study. In this field experiment 15 N (as 15 NH 4 15 NO 3 ) was added as a tracer to the soil and followed into aboveground plant biomass collected in plots exposed to ambient and elevated CO 2 using open top chambers, up to 5 years after the pulse addition (OTC experiment). The 15 N label in plant tissue, expressed as a fraction of total aboveground plant tissue N, decreased with time (Dijkstra et al., 2008) (Figure 3A). The decrease of the 15 N label was explained by ongoing mineralization of unlabeled N in the soil that progressively diluted the 15 N label in the available N pool to plants (Dijkstra, 2009). This dilution of the 15 N label in the plant was faster under elevated CO 2 , suggesting that mineralization of unlabeled N from SOM was enhanced under elevated CO 2 . Rhizodeposition was also greater under elevated CO 2 in this system (Pendall et al., 2004). These combined results suggest that elevated CO 2 may have increased rhizosphere priming through microbial mining for N and subsequent release of N for plant uptake.
We conducted a similar experiment in the Prairie Heating And CO 2 Enrichment (PHACE) experiment in Wyoming, USA (Dijkstra et al., 2010a;Morgan et al., 2011). The northern mixed prairie vegetation of the PHACE experiment is similar to that of the shortgrass steppe of the OTC experiment in Colorado with Bouteloua gracilis (a warm season C4 grass), Pascopyrum smithii and Hesperostipa comata (two cool-season C3 grasses) being the dominant species comprising 80% or more of the aboveground biomass at both sites, although net primary productivity is greater at PHACE than at OTC. Free Air CO 2 Enrichment technology was used in the PHACE experiment to increase the CO 2 concentration to 600 ppm, which is lower than the elevated CO 2 treatment in the OTC experiment (720 ppm). Furthermore, a warming treatment (1.5/3 • C above ambient during the day/night) using

FIGURE 3 | Labeled N fractions (expressed per total amount of N) in aboveground biomass over time in the OTC (A) and PHACE (B) experiment.
A 15 N label was added to the soil in the Spring of year 1 and aboveground biomass was sampled at peak biomass in July in the following 5 years. For each year, CO 2 treatment effects were tested with ANOVA (ns: not significant, * P < 0.05).

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July 2013 | Volume 4 | Article 216 | 4 infrared heaters was included in the PHACE experiment in a full factorial design. As in the OTC experiment, we added a 15 N tracer to the plots and followed the 15 N label into aboveground biomass during the following years. The 15 N label was added by spraying a K 15 NO 3 solution (99 atom% 15 N) onto the plots in 2007. As in the OTC experiment the 15 N label, expressed as a fraction of the total plant N, decreased with time due to dilution of the label with non-labeled N from mineralization in the soil. However, in contrast to the OTC experiment, the decrease of the 15 N label in aboveground biomass was not enhanced under elevated CO 2 (Figure 3B). These results suggest that elevated CO 2 did not enhance microbial mining and release of unlabeled N in the PHACE experiment.

DOES RHIZOSPHERE PRIMING UNDER ELEVATED CO 2 DEPEND ON RELATIVE AVAILABILITY OF N AND P?
Why did these similar semiarid grasslands respond differently to elevated CO 2 in terms of its effect on N cycling? A possible explanation is that in the PHACE experiment elevated CO 2 did not increase rhizosphere priming of SOM. However, elevated CO 2 resulted in larger labile soil C pools, although not in all years . Further, elevated CO 2 increased rates of heterotrophic respiration in the PHACE experiment (Pendall et al., 2013). These results suggest that elevated CO 2 may have enhanced rhizosphere priming of native soil organic C. However, it is also possible that elevated CO 2 enhanced input and cycling of the new and relatively labile soil C only without affecting decomposition of the native soil C pool (e.g., Hungate et al., 1997) (Figure 4). If elevated CO 2 increased the cycling of new C without affecting decomposition of native soil organic C, this would not result in enhanced dilution of the 15 N in the plant (Dijkstra, 2009). Only an increase in the decomposition of native soil organic C (due to rhizosphere priming) would result in enhanced dilution of the 15 N label in the plant. Interestingly, (Allard et al., 2006) also found no enhanced plant N uptake under elevated CO 2 despite enhanced C cycling.
Why then would greater inputs of labile C under elevated CO 2 result in enhanced rhizosphere priming of native soil organic C in the OTC experiment, but only result in enhanced cycling of labile C in the PHACE experiment? We postulate that these contrasting effects of elevated CO 2 on soil C cycling may have occurred because of differences in the availability and cycling of N and P between the two sites.
As explained above, under conditions of low N availability, root exudates could be used by microbes to improve N supply by enhancing the decomposition of recalcitrant SOM that is relatively rich in N (microbial mining hypothesis), possibly with an extra supply of N-degrading enzymes (Drake et al., 2013). However, as described above, root exudates could also be used for the production of phosphatase extracellular enzymes hydrolyzing organic P (by plants and microbes) and to increase mobilization of P (Dakora and Phillips, 2002;George et al., 2011) without affecting SOM decomposition.
In the PHACE experiment we observed that the availability and plant uptake of P compared to that of N increased under elevated CO 2 (Dijkstra et al., 2012). The PHACE experiment was conducted on a calcareous soil high in insoluble calcium phosphates (41% of total soil P was in inorganic form, Dijkstra et al., 2012) that are not directly available to plants. The fixation of P as calcium phosphates may have caused low P availability possibly limiting microbial activity and plant growth. An increase in root exudation under elevated CO 2 in this system may have increased P dissolution and mobilization without affecting net N release from native SOM. We have limited data on the availability of P compared to N in the soil of the OTC experiment. While soil P availability was similarly low at both sites (between 4 and 11 mg P kg −1 soil in the OTC experiment and between 4 and 7 mg P kg −1 soil in the PHACE experiment using 0.5 M NaHCO 3 extractions), a semiarid grassland similar to the grassland used in the OTC experiment strongly responded to N fertilization (Lauenroth et al., 1978). This suggests that plants and microbes may have been more limited by N than by P in the OTC experiment.
We propose that contrasting effects of elevated CO 2 on 15 N dilution in plant biomass in the OTC and PHACE experiments were due to differences in N and P availability to microbial activity and plant growth. In the N limited semiarid grassland, where the OTC experiment was conducted (Lauenroth et al., 1978), increased root exudation under elevated CO 2 resulted in a greater rhizosphere priming thereby enhancing SOM decomposition and mineralization of N, and possibly P. The enhanced N mineralization from native SOM then resulted in enhanced dilution of the 15 N label in the plant (Figure 2). On the other hand, in the PHACE experiment where P availability was low (Dijkstra et al., 2012) and that may have limited microbial activity and plant growth more than N, the increase in root exudation under elevated CO 2 may have increased the dissolution/desorption and mobilization of P, more so than enhancing decomposition of native SOM. As a result, the dilution of the 15 N label in www.frontiersin.org July 2013 | Volume 4 | Article 216 | 5 aboveground plant biomass with time was unaffected by elevated CO 2 . Others have also suggested that enhanced rhizodeposition under elevated CO 2 may be utilized for mobilizing P, rather than for enhancing SOM decomposition (Cardon, 1996;Lloyd et al., 2001).

CONCLUSION
Several studies have suggested that elevated CO 2 can enhance SOM decomposition through increased rhizosphere priming effects (Cheng, 1999;Paterson et al., 2008;Phillips et al., 2011). An increase in rhizosphere priming has important implications for long-term C sequestration in soils under elevated CO 2 and how this feedbacks to the global climate. However, the magnitude and direction of the rhizosphere priming effect may strongly depend on the relative availability of N and P in the soil (Bradford et al., 2008;Milcu et al., 2011;Sullivan and Hart, 2013). Although rhizosphere priming is influenced by several factors, we argue that the relative availability of N and P has to be considered in understanding how perturbations such as climate change affect rhizosphere priming and soil C sequestration.