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dc.contributor.authorNaether, Astrid
dc.contributor.authorFoesel, Barbel U.
dc.contributor.authorNaegele, Verena
dc.contributor.authorWust, Pia K.
dc.contributor.authorWeinert, Jan
dc.contributor.authorBonkowski, Michael
dc.contributor.authorAlt, Fabian
dc.contributor.authorOelmann, Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorPolle, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorLohaus, Gertrud
dc.contributor.authorGockel, Sonja
dc.contributor.authorHemp, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorKalko, Elisabeth K. V.
dc.contributor.authorLinsenmair, K. Eduard
dc.contributor.authorPfeiffer, Simone
dc.contributor.authorRenner, Swen C.
dc.contributor.authorSchöning, Ingo
dc.contributor.authorWeisser, Wolfgang W.
dc.contributor.authorWells, Konstans
dc.contributor.authorFischer, Markus
dc.contributor.authorOvermann, Jorg
dc.contributor.authorFriedrich, Michael W.
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-21T02:34:43Z
dc.date.available2018-05-21T02:34:43Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.issn1098-5336
dc.identifier.doi10.1128/AEM.01325-12
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/173429
dc.description.abstractIn soil, Acidobacteria constitute on average 20% of all bacteria, are highly diverse, and are physiologically active in situ. However, their individual functions and interactions with higher taxa in soil are still unknown. Here, potential effects of land use, soil properties, plant diversity, and soil nanofauna on acidobacterial community composition were studied by cultivation-independent methods in grassland and forest soils from three different regions in Germany. The analysis of 16S rRNA gene clone libraries representing all studied soils revealed that grassland soils were dominated by subgroup Gp6 and forest soils by subgroup Gp1 Acidobacteria. The analysis of a large number of sites (n = 57) by 16S rRNA gene fingerprinting methods (terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism [T-RFLP] and denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis [DGGE]) showed that Acidobacteria diversities differed between grassland and forest soils but also among the three different regions. Edaphic properties, such as pH, organic carbon, total nitrogen, C/N ratio, phosphorus, nitrate, ammonium, soil moisture, soil temperature, and soil respiration, had an impact on community composition as assessed by fingerprinting. However, interrelations with environmental parameters among subgroup terminal restriction fragments (T-RFs) differed significantly, e.g., different Gp1 T-RFs correlated positively or negatively with nitrogen content. Novel significant correlations of Acidobacteria subpopulations (i.e., individual populations within subgroups) with soil nanofauna and vascular plant diversity were revealed only by analysis of clone sequences. Thus, for detecting novel interrelations of environmental parameters with Acidobacteria, individual populations within subgroups have to be considered.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Society for Microbiology
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom7398
dc.relation.ispartofpageto7406
dc.relation.ispartofissue20
dc.relation.ispartofjournalApplied and Environmental Microbiology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume78
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMicrobial Ecology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode060504
dc.titleEnvironmental factors affect acidobacterial communities below the subgroup level in grassland and forest soils
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.griffith.authorWells, Konstans


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