Space Rather than Seasonal Changes Explained More of the Spatiotemporal Variation of Tropical Soil Microbial Communities.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbiomes play an essential role in maintaining soil geochemical cycle and function. Although there have been some reports on the diversity patterns and drivers of the tropical forest soil microbial community, how space and seasonal changes affect spatiotemporal distribution at the regional scales are poorly understood. Based on 260 soil samples, we investigated the spatiotemporal patterns of rubber plantations and rainforest soil microbial communities across the whole of Hainan Island, China during the dry and rainy seasons. We examined soil bacterial and fungal composition and diversity and the main drivers of these microbes using Illumina sequencing and assembly. Our results revealed that the diversity (both alpha and beta) spatiotemporal variation in microbial communities is hig

SUBMITTER: Wei Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9769686 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature