Bacterial and archaeal spatial distribution and its environmental drivers in an extremely haloalkaline soil at the landscape scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A great number of studies have shown that the distribution of microorganisms in the soil is not random, but that their abundance changes along environmental gradients (spatial patterns). The present study examined the spatial variability of the physicochemical characteristics of an extreme alkaline saline soil and how they controlled the archaeal and bacterial communities so as to determine the main spatial community drivers.

Methods

The archaeal and bacterial community structure, and soil characteristics were determined at 13 points along a 211 m transect in the former lake Texcoco. Geostatistical techniques were used to describe spatial patterns of the microbial community and soil characteristics and determine soil properties that defined the prokaryotic communi

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Olivas MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6587938 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature