Soil parameters, land use, and geographical distance drive soil bacterial communities along a European transect.

ABSTRACT: To better understand the relationship between soil bacterial communities, soil physicochemical properties, land use and geographical distance, we considered for the first time ever a European transect running from Sweden down to Portugal and from France to Slovenia. We investigated 71 sites based on their range of variation in soil properties (pH, texture and organic matter), climatic conditions (Atlantic, alpine, boreal, continental, Mediterranean) and land uses (arable, forest and grassland). 16S rRNA gene amplicon pyrosequencing revealed that bacterial communities highly varied in diversity, richness, and structure according to environmental factors. At the European scale, taxa area relationship (TAR) was significant, supporting spatial structuration of bacterial communities. Spatial va

SUBMITTER: Plassart P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345909 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature