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Artigo Completo
Título
Linking Bacterial Rhizosphere Communities of Two Pioneer Species, Brachystegia boehmii and B. spiciformis, to the Ecological Processes of Miombo Woodlands
Participantes na publicação
Camilo B. S. António (Author)
Chinedu Obieze (Author)
João Jacinto (Author)
Ivete S. A. Maquia (Author)
Tara Massad (Author)
José C. Ramalho (Author)
Natasha S. Ribeiro (Author)
Cristina Máguas (Author)
Dep. Biologia Vegetal
cE3c
Isabel Marques (Author)
Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros (Author)
Resumo
Miombo is the most extensive ecosystem in southern Africa, being strongly driven by fire, climate, herbivory, and human activity. Soils are major regulating and supporting services, sequestering nearly 50% of the overall carbon and comprising a set of yet unexploited functions. In this study, we used next-generation Illumina sequencing to assess the patterns of bacterial soil diversity in two pioneer Miombo species, Brachystegia boehmii and Brachystegia spiciformis, along a fire gradient, in ferric lixisol and cambic arenosol soils. In total, 21 phyla, 51 classes, 98 orders, 193 families, and 520 genera were found, revealing a considerably high and multifunctional diversity with a strong potential for the production of bioactive compounds and nutrient mobilization. Four abundant genera characterized the core microbiome among plant species, type of soils, or fire regime: Streptomyces, Gaiella, Chthoniobacter, and Bacillus. Nevertheless, bacterial networks revealed a higher potential for mutualistic interactions and transmission of chemical signals among phylotypes from low fire frequency sites than those from high fire frequency sites. Ecological networks also revealed the negative effects of frequent fires on the complexity of microbial communities. Functional predictions revealed the core “house-keeping” metabolisms contributing to the high bacterial diversity found, suggesting its importance to the functionality of this ecosystem.
Data de Publicação
2022-11-04
Suporte
Forests
Identificadores da Publicação
ISSN - 1999-4907
Editora
MDPI AG
Identificadores do Documento
DOI -
https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111840
URL -
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f13111840
Identificadores de Qualidade
SCOPUS Q1 (2021) - 4 - Forestry
Web Of Science Q1 (2021) - 3.282 - FORESTRY - SCIE
Keywords
Brachystegia
carbon
legumes
functional potential
metagenomics
rhizosphere
C and N stable isotopes