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ArticleBotanical studies2016

Elevation gradient of soil bacterial communities in bamboo plantations.

Yu-Te Lin, Chih-Yu Chiu

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Article in Botanical studies, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Yu-Te LinBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan.
Chih-Yu ChiuBiodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan. bochiu@sinica.edu.tw.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6842-1253

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Abstract

backgroundElevation trends of macro organisms have long been well studied. However, whether microbes also exhibit such patterns of elevation change is unknown. Here, we investigated the changes in bamboo forest soil bacterial communities along six elevation gradients, from 600 to 1800 m a.s.l. in Mt. Da-an, a subtropical montane area in Nantou county at central Taiwan.

resultsData from 16S rRNA gene clone libraries revealed that more than 70 % of the six communities contained Acidobacteria and Proteobacteria, although the relative abundance differed. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis of the distribution of operational taxonomic units showed differences in bamboo soil bacterial communities across gradients. The bacterial communities at 1000 and 1200 m showed greater diversity than the communities at both lower (600 and 800 m) and higher (1400 and 1800 m) elevations. In contrast to the bacterial community trend, soil C and N and microbial biomass properties increased linearly with elevation.

conclusionThe bamboo soil bacterial community could interact with multiple factors such as soil organic matter content and temperature, for differences in composition and diversity with change in elevation.

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