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The spatial variation of soil bacterial community assembly processes affects the accuracy of source tracking in ten major Chinese cities
- Source :
- Science China Life Sciences. 64:1546-1559
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Urban soils harbor billions of bacterial cells and millions of species. However, the distribution patterns and assembly processes of bacterial communities remain largely uncharacterized in urban soils. It is also unknown if we can use the bacteria to track soil sources to certain cities and districts. Here, Illumina MiSeq sequencing was used to survey soil bacterial communities from 529 random plots spanning 61 districts and 10 major cities in China. Over a 3,000 km range, community similarity declined with increasing geographic distance (Mantel r=0.62), and community composition was clustered by city (R2=0.50). Within cities (
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
business.industry
Range (biology)
Distribution (economics)
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
0302 clinical medicine
Geography
Geographical distance
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Soil water
Biological dispersal
Spatial variability
Physical geography
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Source tracking
Zoning
business
General Environmental Science
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Details
- ISSN :
- 18691889 and 16747305
- Volume :
- 64
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science China Life Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........834720b73cecb9b244c27781a3d73f04