Soil microbial community responses to active and passive restoration of selectively logged Bornean tropical forest.

ABSTRACT: Tropical rainforests support critical biogeochemical cycles regulated by complex plant-soil microbial interactions but are threatened by global change. Much of the uniquely biodiverse and carbon rich forest on Borneo has been lost through extensive conversion to monoculture plantation, and a significant proportion of the remaining forest has been heavily modified by selective logging. Ecological restoration of tropical forest aims to return forests to a near pristine state, but restoration initiatives are hindered by limited understanding of the underpinning plant-soil feedbacks, and impacts on soil microbial communities are unresolved. We characterized soil properties and soil bacterial and fungal communities using amplicon sequencing across adjacent old-growth and selectively logged lowl

SUBMITTER: Robinson SJB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12411923 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature