Journal article
Primary succession of nitrogen cycling microbial communities along the deglaciated forelands of Tianshan Mountain, China
J Zeng, K Lou, CJ Zhang, JT Wang, HW Hu, JP Shen, LM Zhang, LL Han, T Zhang, Q Lin, PM Chalk, JZ He
Frontiers in Microbiology | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA | Published : 2016
Abstract
Structural succession and its driving factors for nitrogen (N) cycling microbial communities during the early stages of soil development (0-44 years) were studied along a chronosequence in the glacial forelands of the Tianshan Mountain No.1 glacier in the arid and semi-arid region of central Asia. We assessed the abundance and population of functional genes affiliated with N-fixation (nifH), nitrification (bacterial and archaeal amoA), and denitrification (nirK/S and nosZ) in a glacier foreland using molecular methods. The abundance of functional genes significantly increased with soil development. N cycling community compositions were also significantly shifted within 44 years and were stru..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was financially supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013CB956300) and the Natural Science foundation of China (41230857). Dr. Chalk would like to acknowledge the President's International Fellowship (2016VMB029) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.