Qiqi Han, Yuhang Chen, Zichao Li, Zhuo Zhang, Yuao Qin, Zhongkuan Liu, Guixia Liu
Studying the microbial community of grassland degradation is of great significance for grassland restoration. Thus, we used an Illumina HiSeq PE250 high-throughput sequencing platform to study the changing characteristics of soil fungal communities in degraded grasslands, which were categorized as non-degraded (ND), lightly degraded (LD), moderately degraded (MD), and severely degraded (SD). Moreover, a correlation analysis between soil physical and chemical properties and fungal communities was completed. The results showed that the number of plant species, vegetation coverage, aboveground biomass, and diversity index decreased significantly with increasing degradation, and there were significant differences in the physical and chemical properties of the soil among the different degraded grasslands...
December 14, 2023: Canadian Journal of Microbiology