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- Soil fungal communities of montane natural secondary forest types in China
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Fei Cheng , Xin Wei , Lin Hou , Zhengchun Shang , Xiaobang Peng , Peng Zhao , Zhaoxue Fei , Shuoxin Zhang
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J. Microbiol. 2015;53(6):379-389. Published online May 30, 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-015-4722-3
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Abstract
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Distinctive plant communities may provide specific physical
and chemical properties with soils by specific litters and root
exudates to exert effects on soil microorganisms. Past logging
activities in the Qinling Mountains induced diverse
natural secondary forest types (NSFTs). How these recovered
NSFTs regulate patterns of soil microbial communities remain
limited. In the study, we used terminal-restriction fragment
length polymorphism (T-RFLP) to precisely determine
forest type-specific soil fungal diversity and composition in
five NSFTs. Our results indicated that NSFTs had significant
impacts on the soil fungal communities. The most diverse
fungal species were found in the Armand pine (Pinus armandi)
and Chinese pine (Pinus tabulaeformis) forest soils,
followed by sharptooth oak (Quercus aliena var. acuteserrata)
and Chinese pine-sharptooth oak forest soils, the wilson
spruce (Picea wilsonii) forests had the lowest soil fungal diversity.
The analyses of community composition suggested
that the fungal communities of Armand pine forest soils were
similar to those of Chinese pine forest soils, while other communities
prominently differed from each other. Stepwise
multiple regression analysis revealed that soil silt, clay, pH,
and ammonium nitrogen had intimate linkages with soil fungal
diversity. Furthermore, the patterns of soil fungal communites
were strongly governed by the specific soil environments
of the tested NSFTs, as described by canonical correspondence
analysis (CCA). Finally, our study showed that
soil fungal communities may be mediated by NSFTs via
specific soil edaphic status. Hence, such a comparable study
may provide fundamental information for fungal diversity
and community structure of natural forests and assist with
better prediction and understanding how soil fungal composition
and function alter with forest type transformation.
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