Changes in the Distribution Preference of Soil Microbial Communities During Secondary Succession in a Temperate Mountain Forest.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbes play a crucial role in a forest ecosystem. However, whether the distribution of bacteria and fungi in different forest succession stages is random or following ecological specialization remains to be further studied. In the present study, we characterized soil bacterial and fungal communities to determine their distribution preference, with different succession communities in a temperate mountain forest. The Kruskal-Wallis method was used to analyze structural differences between bacterial and fungal communities in different succession processes. The specificity of soil microbial distribution in a secondary forest was studied by network analysis. The torus-translation test was used to analyze the species distribution preference of soil microbes in different succession stages.

SUBMITTER: Li P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9247583 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature