Elevational patterns of microbial species richness and evenness across climatic zones and taxonomic scales.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the elevational patterns of soil microbial diversity is crucial for microbial biogeography, yet the elevational patterns of diversity across different climatic zones, trophic levels, and taxonomic levels remain unclear. In this study, we investigated the elevational patterns of species richness, species evenness and the relationship between species richness and evenness (RRE) in the forest soil bacterial and fungal communities and individual phyla across three climatic zones (tropical, subtropical, and cold temperate). Our results revealed that soil bacterial richness (alpha diversity) decreased with elevation, while fungal richness exhibited a hump-shaped pattern in the tropical and cold-temperate forests. Elevational patterns of evenness in bacterial and fungal communities

SUBMITTER: Huang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10560872 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature