Invariant community structure of soil bacteria in subtropical coniferous and broadleaved forests.

ABSTRACT: Soil bacteria may be influenced by vegetation and play important roles in global carbon efflux and nutrient cycling under global changes. Coniferous and broadleaved forests are two phyletically distinct vegetation types. Soil microbial communities in these forests have been extensively investigated but few studies have presented comparable data regarding the characteristics of bacterial communities in subtropical forests. We investigated soil bacterial biomass and community composition in three pairs of coniferous and broadleaved forests across a subtropical climatic gradient. We found that bacterial biomass differed between the coniferous and broadleaved forests across the subtropical climate gradient; however, this difference disappeared at some individual sites. In contrast, the same 90

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4709558 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature