Organic fertilization enhances the resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities under extreme drought.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The soil bacterial microbiome plays a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. The composition and functioning of the microbiome are tightly controlled by the physicochemical surrounding. Therefore, the microbiome is responsive to management, such as fertilization, and to climate change, such as extreme drought. It remains a challenge to retain microbiome functioning under drought.

Objectives

This work aims to reveal if fertilization with organic fertilizer, can enhance resistance and resilience of bacterial communities and their function in extreme drought and subsequent rewetting compared with conventional fertilizers.

Methods

In soil mesocosms, we induced a long-term drought for 80 days with subsequent rewetting for 170 days to follow bacterial community

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10173193 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature