Functional traits are increasingly used in ecology to link the structure of microbial communities to ecosystem processes. We investigated two important protistan lineages, Cercozoa and Endomyxa (Rhiza
In particular, our main hypotheses were that: 1) combined application of mineral and organic (i.e., crop straw or green manure) fertilizers increased bacterial abundance and diversity, and affected ba
The pollution of agricultural soils by the heavy metals affects the productivity of the land and has an impact on the quality of the surrounding ecosystems. The present study investigated the bacteria
Characterize bacterial and fungal communities of plant-associated compartments across the mined sites recovered one century after the ecological disturbance, in terms of diversity and taxonomic compos
