Microbial Community in the Permafrost Thaw Gradient in the South of the Vitim Plateau (Buryatia, Russia).

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial communities play key roles in biogeochemical cycles and greenhouse gas formation during the decomposition of the released organic matter in the thawing permafrost. The aim of our research was to assess the taxonomic prokaryotic diversity in soil-ecological niches of the Darkhituy-Khaimisan transect during the initial period of soil thawing. We investigated changes in the microbial communities present in the active layer of four sites representing distinct habitats (larch forest, birch forest, meadow steppe and thermokarst lake). We explore the relationship between the biogeochemical differences among habitats and the active layer microbial community via a spatial (across habitats, and with depth through the active layer) community survey using high-throughput Illumina sequen

SUBMITTER: Zaitseva S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9695985 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature