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Space Is More Important than Season when Shaping Soil Microbial Communities at a Large Spatial Scale

Kaoping Zhang; Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo; Yong‐Guan Zhu; Haiyan Chu · 2020 · mSystems

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Abstract

Both space and time are key factors that regulate microbial community, but microbial temporal variation is often ignored at a large spatial scale. In this study, we compared spatial and seasonal effects on bacterial and fungal diversity variation across an 878-km transect and found direct evidence that space is far more important than season in regulating the soil microbial community. Partitioning the effect of season, space and environmental variables on microbial community, we further found that fast-changing environmental factors contributed to microbial temporal variation.

Abstract by Kaoping Zhang; Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo; Yong‐Guan Zhu; Haiyan Chu, mSystems (2020) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1128/msystems.00783-19