Soil fungi Metagenome

Land use change (LUC) can profoundly affect soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emission and soil microbial communities. However, the impacts of the conversion of natural forest to tea plantation on the contribution of fungi to N2O emission and on fungal community structure remain unclear. In this study, we determined the denitrification enzyme activity (DEA), the contribution of fungi to N2O production, fungal community diversity and related ecological factors in chronological changes of a tea crop system (5, 36 and 105 years old tea orchards named as ST, MT and LT), and adjacent old forest soil (FS).