Altitudinal Variation Influences Soil Fungal Community Composition and Diversity in Alpine-Gorge Region on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

ABSTRACT: Soil fungi play an integral and essential role in maintaining soil ecosystem functions. The understanding of altitude variations and their drivers of soil fungal community composition and diversity remains relatively unclear. Mountains provide an open, natural platform for studying how the soil fungal community responds to climatic variability at a short altitude distance. Using the Illumina MiSeq high-throughput sequencing technique, we examined soil fungal community composition and diversity among seven vegetation types (dry valley shrub, valley-mountain ecotone broadleaved mixed forest, subalpine broadleaved mixed forest, subalpine coniferous-broadleaved mixed forest, subalpine coniferous forest, alpine shrub meadow, alpine meadow) along a 2582 m altitude gradient in the alpine-gorge re

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9410234 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature