Journal article
Climatic factors have unexpectedly strong impacts on soil bacterial beta-diversity in 12 forest ecosystems
Yong Zheng, Niu-Niu Ji, Bin-Wei Wu, Jun-Tao Wang, Hang-Wei Hu, Liang-Dong Guo, Ji-Zheng He
Soil Biology and Biochemistry | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2020
Abstract
It is critical to identify the community assembly patterns (i.e., deterministic or stochastic processes) of soil microbes and the potential driving factors to better predict the belowground biodiversity and functioning in forest ecosystems. Here, a combined approach of neutral model and multivariate analysis was employed to examine the soil bacterial communities in 12 undisturbed forests in China, spanning a wide latitudinal range from 21.6°N to 50.8°N. A clear divergent pattern was found for community composition, indicating that deterministic processes dominated the community assembly of soil bacteria. The α-diversity (richness) nonlinearly changed from tropical to cold temperate zones, wi..
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Awarded by Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China
Awarded by Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
We are grateful to staff of the CForBio for soil sample collection. We thank Ke-Ping Ma, Xiao-Jun Du, Wei-Guo Sang, Zhan-Qing Hao, Ming-Xi Jiang, Wan-Hui Ye, Min Cao, Xian-Kun Li, Guang-Ze Jin, Xiao-Yong Chen, and Bu-Hang Li for providing the plant information. We thank Dr. Liang Chen, Dr. Cheng Gao, and Dr. Jianjun Wang for their valuable suggestions on data analysis and organization of this manuscript. We also thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers whose insightful comments and suggestions greatly improved this manuscript. This study was financially supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (no. XDB31000000), National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 31570499), and Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (no. 5182022).