Comparison of soil bacterial community and functional characteristics following afforestation in the semi-arid areas

Changes in soil bacterial communities, which are crucial for the assessment of ecological restoration in Chinese plantations, have never been studied in the “Three North Shelterbelt” project in the semi-arid areas. We used high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rDNA gene to investigate the soil bacte...

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Main Authors: Jiaojiao Deng, Yan Zhang, You Yin, Xu Zhu, Wenxu Zhu, Yongbin Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-06-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7141.pdf