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Delimiting soil chemistry thresholds for nickel hyperaccumulator plants in Sabah (Malaysia)

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Nickel hyperaccumulator plants have been the focus of considerable research because of their unique ecophysiological characteristics that can be exploited in phytomining technology. Comparatively little research has focussed on the soil chemistry of tropical nickel hyperaccumulator plants to date. This study aimed to elucidate whether the soil chemistry associated with nickel hyperaccumulator plants has distinctive characteristics that could be indicative of specific edaphic requirements. The soil chemistry associated with 18 different nickel hyperaccumulator plant species occurring in Sabah (Malaysia) was compared with local ultramafic soils where nickel hyperaccumulator plants were absent. The results showed that nickel hyperaccumulators in the study area were restricted to circum-neutral soils with relatively high phytoavailable calcium, magnesium and nickel concentrations. There appeared to be a ‘threshold response’ for the presence of nickel hyperaccumulator plants at >20 μg g−1 carboxylic-extractable nickel or >630 μg g−1 total nickel, and >pH 6.3 thereby delimiting their edaphic range. Two (not mutually exclusive) hypotheses were proposed to explain nickel hyperaccumulation on these soils: (1) hyperaccumulators excrete large amounts of root exudates thereby increasing nickel phytoavailability through intense rhizosphere mineral weathering; and (2) hyperaccumulators have extremely high nickel uptake efficiency thereby severely depleting nickel and stimulating re-supply of Ni from diffusion from labile Ni pools. It was concluded that since there was an association with soils with highly labile nickel pools, the available evidence primarily supports hypothesis (2).

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We wish to thank Sabah Parks for their support and the SaBC for granting permission for conducting research in Sabah, and to extend our gratitude to Sukaibin Sumail and Rositti Karim (Sabah Parks) for help in Kinabalu Park. We like to thank Rufus Chaney (USDA) and three anonymous reviewers for helpful and constructive comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Trang Huynh (University of Queensland) is thanked for her help with the DGT deployment and modelling. The University of Queensland is gratefully acknowledged for financial support that made this project possible. Antony van der Ent was the recipient of an IPRS scholarship in Australia and a post-doctoral scholarship from the French National Research Agency through the national “Investissements d’avenir” program (ANR-10-LABX-21 - LABEX RESSOURCES21).

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AVDE and MT conceived and designed the field study and analytical procedures. AVDE conducted the experiments. AVDE and GE analysed the data. AVDE, MT and GE wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

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  1. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia

    Antony van der Ent

  2. Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, UMR 1120, Université de Lorraine – INRA, 54000, Nancy, France

    Antony van der Ent & Guillaume Echevarria

  3. Centre for Agri-Environmental Research & Soil Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK

    Mark Tibbett

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van der Ent, A., Echevarria, G. & Tibbett, M. Delimiting soil chemistry thresholds for nickel hyperaccumulator plants in Sabah (Malaysia). Chemoecology 26, 67–82 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00049-016-0209-x

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