Soil prokaryotic and fungal communities in long-term N fertilization trial

Characterization of soil bacterial and archaeal communities (16S rRNA Illumina sequencing) and fungal communities (ITS Illumina sequencing) in agricultural soils under contrasting N fertilization rates. The trial consists in a 10-year continuous corn cropping system from southern Ontario, Canada. The study compares long- and short-term effects via N fertilization rates applied continuously for 10 years or shocked with a higher/lower N rate once every five years, respectively.