Distinct microbial communities are linked to organic matter properties in millimetre-sized soil aggregates.

ABSTRACT: Soils provide essential ecosystem services and represent the most diverse habitat on Earth. It has been suggested that the presence of various physico-chemically heterogeneous microhabitats supports the enormous diversity of microbial communities in soil. However, little is known about the relationship between microbial communities and their immediate environment at the micro- to millimetre scale. In this study, we examined whether bacteria, archaea, and fungi organize into distinct communities in individual 2-mm-sized soil aggregates and compared them to communities of homogenized bulk soil samples. Furthermore, we investigated their relationship to their local environment by concomitantly determining microbial community structure and physico-chemical properties from the same individual a

SUBMITTER: Simon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11325450 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature