Characteristics of the Soil Microbial Communities in Different Slope Positions along an Inverted Stone Slope in a Degraded Karst Tiankeng.

ABSTRACT: The underground forests developed on inverted stone slopes in degraded karst tiankengs are important areas for biodiversity conservation, but the microbial community profiles have not been sufficiently characterized. Thus, we investigated the soil microbial communities at four sites (at the bottom of the slope (BS), in the middle of the slope (MS), in the upper part of the slope (US) and outside the tiankeng (OT)) in the Shenxiantang tiankeng. The dominant phyla in the inverted stone slope were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Acidobacteria, and the relative abundance were different in different slope positions. The Shannon-Wiener diversity index of the microbial community was significantly greater for the US site than for the MS or BS sites. The metabolism functional pathways (includin

SUBMITTER: Jiang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8227116 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature