Soil bacterial and fungal communities show within field heterogeneity that varies by land management and distance metric
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Yn: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Cyfrol 177, 01.02.2023, t. 108920.
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T1 - Soil bacterial and fungal communities show within field heterogeneity that varies by land management and distance metric
AU - Seaton, Fiona M.
AU - Griffiths, Rob I.
AU - Goodall, Tim
AU - Lebron, Inma
AU - Norton, Lisa R.
PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - Increasing interest in the use of microbial metrics to evaluate soil health raises the issue of how fine-scale heterogeneity can affect microbial community measurements. Here we analyse bacterial and fungal communities of over 100 soil samples across 17 pasture farms and evaluate beta diversity at different scales. We find large variation in microbial communities between different points in the same field, and if Aitchison distance is used we find that within-field variation is as high as between-farm variation. However, if Bray-Curtis or Jaccard distance are used this variation is partially explained by differences in soil pH and vegetation and is higher under mob grazing for fungi. Hence, field scale variation in microbial communities can impact the evaluation of soil health.
AB - Increasing interest in the use of microbial metrics to evaluate soil health raises the issue of how fine-scale heterogeneity can affect microbial community measurements. Here we analyse bacterial and fungal communities of over 100 soil samples across 17 pasture farms and evaluate beta diversity at different scales. We find large variation in microbial communities between different points in the same field, and if Aitchison distance is used we find that within-field variation is as high as between-farm variation. However, if Bray-Curtis or Jaccard distance are used this variation is partially explained by differences in soil pH and vegetation and is higher under mob grazing for fungi. Hence, field scale variation in microbial communities can impact the evaluation of soil health.
KW - Pasture
KW - Bacteria
KW - Fungi
KW - Spatial variability
KW - Mob grazing
KW - Set stocking
KW - Rotational grazing
U2 - 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108920
DO - 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108920
M3 - Article
VL - 177
SP - 108920
JO - Soil Biology and Biochemistry
JF - Soil Biology and Biochemistry
SN - 0038-0717
ER -