Multiple environmental factors, but not nutrient addition, directly affect wet grassland soil microbial community structure: a mesocosm study.

ABSTRACT: Nutrient addition may change soil microbial community structure, but soil microbes must simultaneously contend with other, interacting factors. We studied the effect of soil type (peat, mineral), water level (low, high), and nutrient addition (unfertilized, fertilized) on wet grassland soil microbial community structure in both vegetated and un-vegetated soils after five years of treatment application in a mesocosm, using Illumina sequencing of the bacterial V4 region of the small ribosomal sub-units. Soil type, water level, and plant presence significantly affected the soil microbial structure, both singly and interactively. Nutrient addition did not directly impact microbiome structure, but acted indirectly by increasing plant biomass. The abundance of possible plant growth promoting bac

SUBMITTER: Edwards KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10373907 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature