Changes in the Soil Fungal Community in a Temperate Deciduous Forest at Different Altitudes in the Taihang Mountains.

ABSTRACT: Soil fungi play vital roles in the forest soil ecosystems through the nutrient cycle and organic substance decomposition, so the distribution of fungi at different altitudes has attracted increasing attention. However, their abundance, diversity, and community structure at different altitudes in temperate deciduous forests have rarely been studied. In this study, the fungal communities around two dominant trees (Quercus aliena var. acutiserrata and Carpinus turczaninowii Hance) in temperate deciduous forests at different altitudes (low altitude, medium altitude, high altitude) in the Taihang Mountains were identified via Illumina high-throughput sequencing according to the UNITE database. The soil chemical properties (soil pH value, soil available potassium, alkaline h

SUBMITTER: Yang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12653258 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature