Metagenomics reveals effects of fluctuating water conditions on functional pathways in plant litter microbial community.

ABSTRACT: Climate change modifies environmental conditions, resulting in altered precipitation patterns, moisture availability and nutrient distribution for microbial communities. Changes in water availability are projected to affect a range of ecological processes, including the decomposition of plant litter and carbon cycling. However, a detailed understanding of microbial stress response to drought/flooding is missing. In this study, an intermittent lake is taken up as a model for changes in water availability and how they affect the functional pathways in microbial communities of the decomposing Phragmites australis litter. The results show that most enriched functions in both habitats belonged to the classes of Carbohydrates and Clustering-based subsystems (terms with unknown function) from SEE

SUBMITTER: Likar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10709317 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature