Soil-borne bacterial structure and diversity does not reflect community activity in Pampa biome.

ABSTRACT: The Pampa biome is considered one of the main hotspots of the world's biodiversity and it is estimated that half of its original vegetation was removed and converted to agricultural land and tree plantations. Although an increasing amount of knowledge is being assembled regarding the response of soil bacterial communities to land use change, to the associated plant community and to soil properties, our understanding about how these interactions affect the microbial community from the Brazilian Pampa is still poor and incomplete. In this study, we hypothesized that the same soil type from the same geographic region but under distinct land use present dissimilar soil bacterial communities. To test this hypothesis, we assessed the soil bacterial communities from four land-uses within the same

SUBMITTER: Lupatini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3797755 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature