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ArticleFEMS microbiology ecology2022

Site and land-use associations of soil bacteria and fungi define core and indicative taxa.

Florian Gschwend, Martin Hartmann, Johanna Mayerhofer, Anna-Sofia Hug, Jürg Enkerli, Andreas Gubler, Reto G Meuli, Beat Frey, Franco Widmer

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Article in FEMS microbiology ecology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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Florian GschwendMolecular Ecology, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-3396-0756
Martin HartmannSustainable Agroecosystems, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 2, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8069-5284
Johanna MayerhoferMolecular Ecology, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1833-2276
Anna-Sofia HugSwiss Soil Monitoring Network NABO, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-8436-7568
Jürg EnkerliMolecular Ecology, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5198-8392
Andreas GublerSwiss Soil Monitoring Network NABO, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-4494-8755
Reto G MeuliSwiss Soil Monitoring Network NABO, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0059-3224
Beat FreyRhizosphere Processes Group, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-6391-3574
Franco WidmerMolecular Ecology, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1735-8397

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil microbial diversity has major influences on ecosystem functions and services. However, due to its complexity and uneven distribution of abundant and rare taxa, quantification of soil microbial diversity remains challenging and thereby impeding its integration into long-term monitoring programs. Using metabarcoding, we analyzed soil bacterial and fungal communities at 30 long-term soil monitoring sites from the three land-use types arable land, permanent grassland, and forest with a yearly sampling between snowmelt and first fertilization over five years. Unlike soil microbial biomass and alpha-diversity, microbial community compositions and structures were site- and land-use-specific with CAP reclassification success rates of 100%. The temporally stable site core communities included 38.5% of bacterial and 33.1% of fungal OTUs covering 95.9% and 93.2% of relative abundances. We characterized bacterial and fungal core communities and their land-use associations at the family-level. In general, fungal families revealed stronger land-use associations as compared to bacteria. This is likely due to a stronger vegetation effect on fungal core taxa, while bacterial core taxa were stronger related to soil properties. The assessment of core communities can be used to form cultivation-independent reference lists of microbial taxa, which may facilitate the development of microbial indicators for soil quality and the use of soil microbiota for long-term soil biomonitoring.

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MicrobiotaSoilBacteriaFungiHumansSoil MicrobiologySoilamplicon sequencingcore communitiescore taxaenvironmental driverssoil microbial diversitytemporal stability

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