Dominant Tree Species and Soil Type Affect the Fungal Community Structure in a Boreal Peatland Forest.

ABSTRACT: Boreal peatlands play a crucial role in global carbon cycling, acting as an important carbon reservoir. However, little information is available on how peatland microbial communities are influenced by natural variability or human-induced disturbances. In this study, we have investigated the fungal diversity and community structure of both the organic soil layer and buried wood in boreal forest soils using high-throughput sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region. We have also compared the fungal communities during the primary colonization of wood with those of the surrounding soils. A permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA) confirmed that the community composition significantly differed between soil types (P< 0.001) and tree species (P< 0.001). The dist

SUBMITTER: Sun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4836437 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature