Spatial scale affects the relative role of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial communities in wheat fields across the North China Plain

Y Shi, Y Li, X Xiang, R Sun, T Yang, D He, K Zhang… - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background The relative importance of stochasticity versus determinism in soil bacterial
communities is unclear, as are the possible influences that alter the balance between these …

Stochastic processes drive bacterial and fungal community assembly in sustainable intensive agricultural soils of Shanghai, China

S Li, Y Li, C Hu, X Zheng, J Zhang, H Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Sustainable intensive cropping systems have been implemented for three decades in
suburban agricultural districts of Shanghai, China. These human-managed soils have been …

Soil bacterial diversity correlates with precipitation and soil pH in long-term maize cropping systems

W Tan, J Wang, W Bai, J Qi, W Chen - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Unraveling the key drivers of bacterial community assembly in agricultural soils is pivotal for
soil nutrient management and crop productivity. Presently, the drivers of microbial …

Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes on soil microbial community assembly in temperate grasslands

N Liu, H Hu, W Ma, Y Deng, Q Wang, A Luo, J Meng… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Changes in species composition across communities, ie, β-diversity, is a central focus of
ecology. Compared to macroorganisms, the β-diversity of soil microbes and its drivers are …

Stair-step pattern of soil bacterial diversity mainly driven by pH and vegetation types along the elevational gradients of Gongga Mountain, China

J Li, Z Shen, C Li, Y Kou, Y Wang, B Tu… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Ecological understandings of soil bacterial community succession and assembly
mechanism along elevational gradients in mountains remain not well understood. Here, by …

Soil pH, total phosphorus, climate and distance are the major factors influencing microbial activity at a regional spatial scale

H Cao, R Chen, L Wang, L Jiang, F Yang, S Zheng… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Considering the extensive functional redundancy in microbial communities and great
difficulty in elucidating it based on taxonomic structure, studies on the biogeography of soil …

Pyrosequencing reveals contrasting soil bacterial diversity and community structure of two main winter wheat cropping systems in China

J Zhao, R Zhang, C Xue, W Xun, L Sun, Y Xu, Q Shen - Microbial ecology, 2014 - Springer
Microbes are key components of the soil environment, playing an important role in
maintaining soil health, sustainability, and productivity. The composition and structure of soil …

Interpreting distance‐decay pattern of soil bacteria via quantifying the assembly processes at multiple spatial scales

M Feng, BM Tripathi, Y Shi, JM Adams… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
It has been widely accepted that there is a distance‐decay pattern in the soil microbiome.
However, few studies have attempted to interpret the microbial distance‐decay pattern from …

Space is more important than season when shaping soil microbial communities at a large spatial scale

K Zhang, M Delgado-Baquerizo, YG Zhu, H Chu - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The relative importance of spatial and temporal variability in shaping the distribution of soil
microbial communities at a large spatial scale remains poorly understood. Here, we …

Soil pH and plant diversity shape soil bacterial community structure in the active layer across the latitudinal gradients in continuous permafrost region of Northeastern …

B Ren, Y Hu, B Chen, Y Zhang, J Thiele, R Shi… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
In the permafrost region of northeastern China, vegetation and soil environment have
showed response to permafrost degradation triggered by global warming, but the …