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Receptiveness of soil bacterial diversity in relation to soil nutrient transformation and canopy growth in Chinese fir monoculture influenced by varying stand density

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Varying stand density was the principal factor altering bacterial diversity compared to soil properties. Soil bacteria with a higher alpha diversity were present in low stand density.

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Different land-use patterns and silvicultural practices contribute to the shifting composition and assemblage of soil bacterial communities. Positive plant and soil responses to nutrient acquisition, promotion of sustainable growth, resistance to biotic and abiotic stress, and disease suppression depend on favorable interactions between plant roots and microbes. This study investigated the community assemblage of soil bacteria and its interaction with soil quality indicators and canopy growth parameters (e.g., mean tilt angle of the leaf (MTA), leaf area index (LAI), and canopy openness index (DIFN)) in low, intermediate and high density stands of Chinese fir plantation at two soil depths (0–20 and 20–40 cm). The results showed that the soils of the low-density stand had higher α-bacterial diversity than the soils of medium and high-density forests. Among all variables, Acidobacteria was the most dominant phylum with 24.72%, followed by Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria and Chloroflexi with 20.41%, 15.89%, 11.67%, respectively. Among different canopy parameters, low-density associated bacterial diversity was positively correlated with the canopy openness index. Among soil properties, potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus were considerably influential factors to bacterial communities. Redundancy analysis (RDA) results showed that soil physiochemical properties accounted for 31.86% of the total migration of the soil bacterial communities. Although soil attributes were the significant contributing factors affecting bacterial communities, varying stand density was the main factor altering bacterial diversity. By revealing changes in soil bacterial relative abundance and richness patterns at different levels of stand density, this study would provide comprehensive proof of the complexity of belowground ecology. It will also serve as a foundation for developing sustainable management strategies in silty oxisol soil types and plantation crops.

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Acknowledgements

We thank our friend Chris Ijeoma for the English language and grammar checking of the manuscript. We would also like to thank Xiang Zhang, Xu Jinjin and Wu Kai for their help in conducting fieldwork. This work was funded by hunan provincial science and technology department (No. 70702-45200003).

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This research was financially supported by the Key Program of Natural Science of Fujian Province, China (Grant No. 2020JO2029), Science and Technology Promotion Project of Fujian Forestry Bureau (2020TG19) and the Project of Fujian Provincial Colleges and University Engineering Research Center of Plantation Sustainable management (PTJH18009).

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  1. Bangor College China, A joint unit of Bangor University and Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, 410004, China

    Taimoor Hassan Farooq

  2. College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Taimoor Hassan Farooq, Yao Yan & Pengfei Wu

  3. College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 350002, Fuzhou, China

    Uttam Kumar

  4. Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Vivekananda Global University, 303012, Jaipur, India

    Uttam Kumar

  5. Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Government College University, Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan

    Muhammad Saleem Arif

  6. Department of Environment and Soil Sciences, University of Lleida, Avinguda Alcalde Rovira Roure 191, 25198, Lleida, Spain

    Awais Shakoor

  7. College of Crop Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 350002, Fuzhou, China

    Muhammad Tayyab

  8. Forage Research Station, AICRP on Forage Crops & Utilization, Anand Agricultural University, Gujarat, India

    Paresh H. Rathod

  9. Department of ecology and environment, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, China

    Muhammad Mohsin Altaf

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Farooq, T.H., Kumar, U., Yan, Y. et al. Receptiveness of soil bacterial diversity in relation to soil nutrient transformation and canopy growth in Chinese fir monoculture influenced by varying stand density. Trees 36, 1149–1160 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-022-02278-0

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