Land-use intensification differentially affects bacterial, fungal and protist communities and decreases microbiome network complexity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Soil microbial communities are major drivers of cycling of soil nutrients that sustain plant growth and productivity. Yet, a holistic understanding of the impact of land-use intensification on the soil microbiome is still poorly understood. Here, we used a field experiment to investigate the long-term consequences of changes in land-use intensity based on cropping frequency (continuous cropping, alternating cropping with a temporary grassland, perennial grassland) on bacterial, protist and fungal communities as well as on their co-occurrence networks.

Results

We showed that land use has a major impact on the structure and composition of bacterial, protist and fungal communities. Grassland and arable cropping differed markedly with many taxa differentiating between

SUBMITTER: Romdhane S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8740439 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature