Land use modification causes slow, but predictable, change in soil microbial community composition and functional potential.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bacterial communities are critical to ecosystem functioning and sensitive to their surrounding physiochemical environment. However, the impact of land use change on microbial communities remains understudied. We used 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics to assess soil microbial communities' taxonomic and functional responses to land use change. We compared data from long-term grassland, exotic forest and horticulture reference sites to data from sites that transitioned from (i) Grassland to exotic forest or horticulture and from (ii) Exotic forest to grassland.

Results

Community taxonomic and functional profiles of the transitional sites significantly differed from those within reference sites representing both their historic and current land

SUBMITTER: Louisson Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10080853 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature