Divergent assembly processes? A comparison of the plant and soil microbiome with plant communities in a glacier forefield.

ABSTRACT: Community assembly is a result of dispersal, abiotic and biotic characteristics of the habitat as well as stochasticity. A direct comparison between the assembly of microbial and 'macrobial' organisms is hampered by the sampling of these communities in different studies, at different sites or on different scales. In a glacier forefield in the Austrian Alps, we recorded the soil and plant microbiome (bacteria and fungi) and plants that occurred in the same landscape and in close proximity in the same plots. We tested five predictions deduced from assembly processes and revealed deviating patterns of assembly in these community types. In short, microbes appeared to be less dispersal limited than plants and soil microbes, and plants strongly responded to abiotic factors whereas the leaf micro

SUBMITTER: Junker RR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8478474 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature