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Arid Ecosystem Vegetation Canopy-Gap Dichotomy: Influence on Soil Microbial Composition and Nutrient Cycling Functional Potential

Published:2021-02-12 Issue:5 Volume:87 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Kushwaha Priyanka¹^ORCID,Neilson Julia W.¹^ORCID,Barberán Albert¹^ORCID,Chen Yongjian¹^ORCID,Fontana Catherine G.¹^ORCID,Butterfield Bradley J.²³^ORCID,Maier Raina M.¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

2. Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

3. Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Abstract

Increasing aridity will drive a shift in desert vegetation and interspace gap (microsite) structure toward gap expansion. To evaluate the impact of gap expansion, we assess microsite effects on soil nutrients, microbiome community composition and functional capacity, and the potential of gap soils to serve as microbial reservoirs for plant root-associated microbiomes in an arid ecosystem.

Funder

HHS | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

University of Arizona

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.02780-20

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