Microbiome Aggregated Traits and Assembly Are More Sensitive to Soil Management than Diversity.

ABSTRACT: How soil is managed, particularly for agriculture, exerts stresses upon soil microbiomes, resulting in altered community structures and functional states. Understanding how soil microbiomes respond to combined stresses is important for predicting system performance under different land use scenarios, aids in identification of the most environmentally benign managements, and provides insight into how system function can be recovered in degraded soils. We use a long-established field experiment to study the effects of combined chronic (press) disturbance of the magnitude of organic carbon inputs with acute (pulse) effects of physical disturbance by tillage and chemical disturbance due to inorganic fertilization and pesticide application. We show that because of the variety of ways it can be

SUBMITTER: Neal AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8269249 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature