The influence of bioclimate on soil microbial communities of cork oak.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Soil microbiomes are important to maintain soil processes in forests and confer protection to plants against abiotic and biotic stresses. These microbiomes can be affected by environmental changes. In this work, soil microbial communities from different cork oak Portuguese forests under different edaphoclimatic conditions were described by using a metabarcoding strategy targeting ITS2 and 16S barcodes.

Results

A total of 11,974 fungal and 12,010 bacterial amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) were obtained, revealing rich and diverse microbial communities associated with different cork oak forests. Bioclimate was described as the major factor influencing variability in these communities (or bioclimates/cork oak forest for fungal community), followed by boron and granu

SUBMITTER: Costa D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9219136 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature