Soil and rhizosphere microbial communities facing land use perturbations in Saudi Arabia

Little is known about microbial community resistance and adaptation to disturbances over time. Here we examined, in the little studied hot arid desert ecosystem of Saudi Arabia, the response of microbial interactions on several land uses perturbations. They result from different hydric constrains of flooding-drought successions, either anthropic or natural, which we compared to natural ecosystems.