Soil Microbial Recovery to the Rubber Tree Replanting Process in Ivory Coast.

ABSTRACT: The resistance and resilience of soil microbial communities to an environmental disturbance are poorly documented, due to the lack on onfield diachronic experiments, limiting our ability to design adapted agroecological practices. This is especially true in rubber plantations, one of the most planted tree in tropical areas. We aimed to understand (1) how soil disturbances occurring during the rubber replanting phase affect the soil microbiome, (2) how agricultural practices combining legumes cover crops and tree logging residues shape community resilience and (3) how microbial responses vary across different edaphic contexts. In two plantations with distinct soil properties in Ivory Coast, soil microbial communities were surveyed every 6 months for 24 months after soil perturbation. Commun

SUBMITTER: Kouakou AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11906521 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature