Deterministic processes dominate soil microbial community assembly in subalpine coniferous forests on the Loess Plateau.

ABSTRACT: Microbial community assembly is influenced by a continuum (actually the trade-off) between deterministic and stochastic processes. An understanding of this ecological continuum is of great significance for drawing inferences about the effects of community assembly processes on microbial community structure and function. Here, we investigated the driving forces of soil microbial community assembly in three different environmental contexts located on subalpine coniferous forests of the Loess Plateau in Shanxi, China. The variation in null deviations and phylogenetic analysis showed that a continuum existed between deterministic and stochastic processes in shaping the microbial community structure, but deterministic processes prevailed. By integrating the results of redundancy analysis (RDA),

SUBMITTER: Zhao P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6510221 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature