Soil bacterial community diversity, composition, and species specificity across different geographical landscapes in the Mu Us Sandy Land.

ABSTRACT: The Mu Us Sandy Land represents a typical region for ecological restoration in China, characterized by the development of diverse landscapes including desert, meadow patches, arbor forests, and mixed arbor-shrub forests. This study aimed to investigate the diversity, composition, and differential taxa of soil bacterial communities across these distinct geographical landscapes, thereby elucidating the driving mechanisms of vegetation restoration on the sandy land soil microbiome. Soil samples were collected from four typical landscapes in the Mu Us Sandy Land: desert (B), meadow patch (D), arbor forest (T), and mixed arbor-shrub forest (C). High-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene was performed using the Illumina NextSeq 2000 platform. Our results revealed distinct patterns of bacter

SUBMITTER: Shang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12719507 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature