| Title |
Elevation gradient of soil bacterial communities in bamboo plantations
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Botanical Studies, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40529-016-0123-0 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Yu-Te Lin, Chih-Yu Chiu |
| Abstract |
Elevation 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. Data 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. The 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. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 16 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 4 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 2 | 13% |
| Researcher | 2 | 13% |
| Professor | 1 | 6% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 6% |
| Other | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 5 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 38% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 19% |
| Unknown | 7 | 44% |
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