Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests.

ABSTRACT: Soil bacteria provide a large range of ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling. Despite their important role in soil systems, compositional and functional responses of bacterial communities to different land use and management regimes are not fully understood. Here, we assessed soil bacterial communities in 150 forest and 150 grassland soils derived from three German regions by pyrotag sequencing of 16S rRNA genes. Land use type (forest and grassland) and soil edaphic properties strongly affected bacterial community structure and function, whereas management regime had a minor effect. In addition, a separation of soil bacterial communities by sampling region was encountered. Soil pH was the best predictor for bacterial community structure, diversity and function. The application of mul

SUBMITTER: Kaiser K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5030646 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature