Drivers of microbial community structure in forest soils

0492140 - MBÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Llado, S. - López-Mondejár, Rubén - Baldrian, Petr
Drivers of microbial community structure in forest soils.
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. Roč. 102, č. 10 (2018), s. 4331-4338. ISSN 0175-7598. E-ISSN 1432-0614
Institutional support: RVO:61388971
Keywords : Forest * Soil * Microbial diversity
OECD category: Microbiology
Impact factor: 3.670, year: 2018

Forests are essential biomes for global biogeochemical cycles, and belowground microorganisms have a key role in providing relevant ecosystem services. To predict the effects of environmental changes on these ecosystem services requires a comprehensive understanding of how biotic and abiotic factors drive the composition of microbial communities in soil. However, microorganisms are not homogeneously distributed in complex environments such as soil, with different features affecting microbes at different extent depending on the niche they occupy. Indeed, this spatial heterogeneity hampers the extrapolation of microbial diversity study results from particular habitats to the ecosystem level, even if the resolution of the more recent studies has increased significantly after the standardization of high-throughput sequencing techniques. The present work intends to give a comprehensive view of the knowledge accumulated until date defining the more important drivers determining the structure of forest soil microbial communities from fine to continental scales.
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