Succession of soil microbial community in a developing mid-channel bar: The role of environmental disturbance and plant community.

ABSTRACT: Succession of microbial and plant communities is crucial for the development and the stability of soil ecological functions. The relative role of plant communities and environmental disturbance in shaping the microbial community in a newly established habitat remains unclear. In this study, a mid-channel bar (MCB) exposed to an environmental disturbance gradient in the Yangtze River was studied to explore the effects of such disturbance and plant community traits on the succession of the soil microbial community. Bulk and rhizospheric soils were collected from the MCB and classified according to their level of exposure to environmental disturbance: head, central and tail. These subsequently underwent high-throughput sequencing and interdomain ecological network (IDEN) analysis to identify

SUBMITTER: Ye F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9428583 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature