soil metagenome Metagenome

Microorganisms have an essential role in earth's global biogeochemical cycles, and they are able to respond more rapidly than plant communities to environmental changes, which in turn affect ecosystem processes, such as carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling, due to the vastness of microbial biomass and diversity. Therefore, integrating microbial communities' structure and functional variability in forest ecosystem would provide much knowledge on the mechanisms about the nutrition cycles. The objectives of this study were therefore: (1) to determine the patterns of microbial community composition and function shift in forest soil; (2) to unravel how different abiotic factors dominant the dynamics of microbial structure and function over time.