Short-Term Vegetation Restoration Enhances the Complexity of Soil Fungal Network and Decreased the Complexity of Bacterial Network.

ABSTRACT: Different vegetation restoration methods may affect the soil's physicochemical properties and microbial communities. However, it is not known how the microbial network's complexity of the bacterial and fungal communities respond to short-term vegetation restoration. We conducted a short-term ecological restoration experiment to reveal the response of the soil's microbial community and microbial network's stability to initial vegetation restoration during the restoration of the degraded grassland ecosystem. The two restoration methods (sowing alfalfa (Medicago sativa, AF) and smooth brome (Bromus inermis, SB)) had no significant effect on the alpha diversity of the fungal community, but the SB significantly increased the alpha diversity of the soil surface bacterial community

SUBMITTER: Xu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9695196 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature