Site and land-use associations of soil bacteria and fungi define core and indicative taxa.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial diversity has major influences on ecosystem functions and services. However, due to its complexity and uneven distribution of abundant and rare taxa, quantification of soil microbial diversity remains challenging and thereby impeding its integration into long-term monitoring programs. Using metabarcoding, we analyzed soil bacterial and fungal communities at 30 long-term soil monitoring sites from the three land-use types arable land, permanent grassland, and forest with a yearly sampling between snowmelt and first fertilization over five years. Unlike soil microbial biomass and alpha-diversity, microbial community compositions and structures were site- and land-use-specific with CAP reclassification success rates of 100%. The temporally stable site core communities included

SUBMITTER: Gschwend F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752248 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature