Responses of Soil Microbial and Nematode Communities to Various Cover Crop Patterns in a Tea Garden of China.

ABSTRACT: As one of the typical farmland ecosystems, tea gardens are of vital importance in China. The purpose of this study was to quantify the dynamic of soil properties, soil microbial diversity, and nematodes, as affected by various cover crop patterns in a Tanjiawan tea garden in Hubei Province, China. Four cover crop patterns were established as following: naturally covered of bare land and mixed planting with two species, four species, and eight species. The results revealed that soil organic matter, pH, and total phosphorous content were significantly related to cover crop patterns. The number of nematodes increased with cover crop diversity, and the percentage of plant parasitic nematodes in cover crop treatments was lower than in naturally covered bare land. A higher diversity of cover cro

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8910492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature