Microbial diversity of semi-arid soil in the Colombian Caribbean Raw sequence reads

Fertility islands are key ecological arrangements for slowing desertification processes in arid and semi-arid environments. These islands harbor a great variety of microorganisms that play an important role in their establishment and dynamics. The taxonomic and functional diversity of bacteria on these islands is conditioned by the nurse tree and the characteristics of their environment. However, the microbial diversity associated with these vegetation patterns is not described in the semiarid environments of northern South America. The present study analyzed the taxonomic and functional diversity of soil bacterial communities of fertility islands belonging to three species of nurse trees in the Colombian Caribbean during a wet and a dry season.