Soil properties and root traits jointly shape fine-scale spatial patterns of bacterial community and metabolic functions within a Korean pine forest

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Introduction

Materials & Methods

Study site and sampling

Soil chemical analyses

Analyses of soil bacterial community composition and carbon metabolic functions

Root traits

Data analysis

Results

Spatial variability of soil properties, root traits and bacterial community

Distance-decay patterns of bacterial community composition and metabolic functions

Drivers of bacterial community composition and carbon metabolic functions

Discussion

Conclusions

Supplemental Information

Supplemental materials

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10902/supp-1

Raw numeric data for soil chemical analysand root traits

DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10902/supp-2

Additional Information and Declarations

Competing Interests

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Jialing Teng and Jing Tian conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Guirui Yu and Yakov Kuzyakov conceived and designed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, and approved the final draft.

Data Availability

The following information was supplied regarding data availability:

Data is available at GenBank: PRJNA663422.

The sequences are also available at Figshare:

Teng, Jialing (2021): ROWDATA.zip. figshare. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12979112.v1.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31770560), and the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2017YFA0604803). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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