Elevation gradient of soil bacterial communities in bamboo plantations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Elevation trends of macro organisms have long been well studied. However, whether microbes also exhibit such patterns of elevation change is unknown. Here, we investigated the changes in bamboo forest soil bacterial communities along six elevation gradients, from 600 to 1800 m a.s.l. in Mt. Da-an, a subtropical montane area in Nantou county at central Taiwan.

Results

Data from 16S rRNA gene clone libraries revealed that more than 70 % of the six communities contained Acidobacteria and Proteobacteria, although the relative abundance differed. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis of the distribution of operational taxonomic units showed differences in bamboo soil bacterial communities across gradients. The bacterial communities at 1000 and 1200 m showed great

SUBMITTER: Lin YT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5430579 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature