Urbanization Reduces Phyllosphere Microbial Network Complexity and Species Richness of Camphor Trees.

ABSTRACT: Studies on microbial communities associated with foliage in natural ecosystems have grown in number in recent years yet have rarely focused on urban ecosystems. With urbanization, phyllosphere microorganisms in the urban environment have come under pressures from increasing human activities. To explore the effects of urbanization on the phyllosphere microbial communities of urban ecosystems, we investigated the phyllosphere microbial structure and the diversity of camphor trees in eight parks along a suburban-to-urban gradient. The results showed that the number of ASVs (amplicon sequence variants), unique on the phyllosphere microbial communities of three different urbanization gradients, was 4.54 to 17.99 times higher than that of the shared ASVs. Specific microbial biomarkers were also

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9966171 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature