Soil organic carbon primarily shaped soil bacterial community composition during grassland restoration.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Soil microbial community plays a key role in land restoration through direct involvement in various soil biochemical processes. However, our knowledge about how different land restoration practices shape bacterial communities is limited.

Results

Soil samples were collected at 0-10 cm and 10-20 cm depths from a seven-year-old naturally restored grassland, an artificially restored grassland (restored either with grass, legume, or a mixture of two), and continuously cultivated cropland. Changes in soil biochemistry and bacterial community structure using targeted high-throughput amplicon sequencing were to identify characteristics of bacterial taxa associated with soil biochemistry altered by the grassland restoration process. The soil bacterial community composition

SUBMITTER: Shi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12798064 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature