Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China

Abstract Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but rarely investigated subject in microbial ecology. Here we examined archaeal, bacterial, and fungal community assembly in adjacent pairs of maize (water-unsaturated) and rice (water-saturated) fields across different habitats and regions throughout Eastern China. The high-throughput sequencing dataset was analyzed by variation partitioning, null model, and neutral community model analyses. We demonstrated that microbial community assembly was governed more by species sorting than by dispersal limitation in maize fields, and to a…

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 41807030, 2016YFD0200306
• CP
  China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

  Award: 2018M630041
• NP
  National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents

  Award: BX201700005
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2016YFD0200306