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Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia
Soil microbial communities directly affect soil functionality through their roles in the cycling of soil nutrients and carbon storage. Microbial communities vary substantially in space and time, between soil types and under different land management. The mechanisms that control the spatial distribut...
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2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6078944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30082740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30005-8 |
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author | Xue, Pei-Pei Carrillo, Yolima Pino, Vanessa Minasny, Budiman McBratney, Alex. B. |
author_facet | Xue, Pei-Pei Carrillo, Yolima Pino, Vanessa Minasny, Budiman McBratney, Alex. B. |
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description | Soil microbial communities directly affect soil functionality through their roles in the cycling of soil nutrients and carbon storage. Microbial communities vary substantially in space and time, between soil types and under different land management. The mechanisms that control the spatial distributions of soil microbes are largely unknown as we have not been able to adequately upscale a detailed analysis of the microbiome in a few grams of soil to that of a catchment, region or continent. Here we reveal that soil microbes along a 1000 km transect have unique spatial structures that are governed mainly by soil properties. The soil microbial community assessed using Phospholipid Fatty Acids showed a strong gradient along the latitude gradient across New South Wales, Australia. We found that soil properties contributed the most to the microbial distribution, while other environmental factors (e.g., temperature, elevation) showed lesser impact. Agricultural activities reduced the variation of the microbial communities, however, its influence was local and much less than the overall influence of soil properties. The ability to predict the soil and environmental factors that control microbial distribution will allow us to predict how future soil and environmental change will affect the spatial distribution of microbes. |
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spelling | pubmed-60789442018-08-09 Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia Xue, Pei-Pei Carrillo, Yolima Pino, Vanessa Minasny, Budiman McBratney, Alex. B. Sci Rep Article Soil microbial communities directly affect soil functionality through their roles in the cycling of soil nutrients and carbon storage. Microbial communities vary substantially in space and time, between soil types and under different land management. The mechanisms that control the spatial distributions of soil microbes are largely unknown as we have not been able to adequately upscale a detailed analysis of the microbiome in a few grams of soil to that of a catchment, region or continent. Here we reveal that soil microbes along a 1000 km transect have unique spatial structures that are governed mainly by soil properties. The soil microbial community assessed using Phospholipid Fatty Acids showed a strong gradient along the latitude gradient across New South Wales, Australia. We found that soil properties contributed the most to the microbial distribution, while other environmental factors (e.g., temperature, elevation) showed lesser impact. Agricultural activities reduced the variation of the microbial communities, however, its influence was local and much less than the overall influence of soil properties. The ability to predict the soil and environmental factors that control microbial distribution will allow us to predict how future soil and environmental change will affect the spatial distribution of microbes. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6078944/ /pubmed/30082740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30005-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Xue, Pei-Pei Carrillo, Yolima Pino, Vanessa Minasny, Budiman McBratney, Alex. B. Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia |
title | Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia |
title_full | Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia |
title_fullStr | Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia |
title_short | Soil Properties Drive Microbial Community Structure in a Large Scale Transect in South Eastern Australia |
title_sort | soil properties drive microbial community structure in a large scale transect in south eastern australia |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6078944/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30082740 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30005-8 |
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