Soil bacterial diversity along elevational gradients

The goal of this study was to understand the diversity of soil bacteria across elevational gradients and to disentangle the direct and indirect effects of elevation, plant diversity and soil properties on soil bacterial diversity.This study was conducted in cool-temperate and sub-alpine forests in the University of Tokyo Chichibu Forest in central Japan. We used amplicon-based sequencing of 16S rRNA gene V4 region (515F/806R) to characterize the soil bacterial community.