Long-term recovery of microbial communities in the boreal bryosphere following fire disturbance. moss metagenome

Many previous studies have investigated the response of animal and plant communities to disturbance events. However, the long-term (decades – centuries) recovery of microbial communities exposed to disturbance is poorly understood. Our study used a 360-year fire chronosquence in northern Sweden to investigate post-fire microbial community dynamics in the boreal bryosphere (the feather moss layer that blankets the forest floor).