Microbial Diversity of Soil in a Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot: Parque Nacional La Campana, Chile.

ABSTRACT: Parque Nacional La Campana (PNLC) is recognized worldwide for its flora and fauna, rather than for its microbial richness. Our goal was to characterize the structure and composition of microbial communities (bacteria, archaea and fungi) and their relationship with the plant communities typical of PNLC, such as sclerophyllous forest, xerophytic shrubland, hygrophilous forest and dry sclerophyllous forest, distributed along topoclimatic variables, namely, exposure, elevation and slope. The plant ecosystems, the physical and chemical properties of organic matter and the soil microbial composition were characterized by massive sequencing (iTag-16S rRNA, V4 and ITS1-5F) from the DNA extracted from the soil surface (5 cm, n = 16). A contribution of environmental variables, particularly re

SUBMITTER: Quinteros-Urquieta C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11356564 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature