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Does Biochar Induce Similar Successions of Microbial Community Structures Among Different Soils?

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In this study, the responses of soil bacterial communities to biochar amendment in different soils were investigated. Biochar amendment had not significantly changed the bacterial richness and diversity in black soil, fluvo-aquic soil and red soil, but shifted all the soil bacterial community structures. Biochar amendment mainly increased the growth of low-abundance bacteria in fluvo-aquic soil and that of high-abundance bacteria in red soil. The most abundant bacterial phylum in black soil and fluvo-aquic soil, Proteobacteria, increased after biochar addition, while Chloroflexi, the most abundant phylum in red soil, decreased after biochar addition. Some bacterial phyla responded consistently to biochar amendment. However, many more bacterial phyla responded differently to biochar amendment in different soils, especially those phyla present at low abundances. Therefore, our study confirmed that the responses of soil bacterial communities to the same biochar were specific to both soil type and bacterial phylum.

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Acknowledgements

This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41671236, 41877032), Key Program of Frontier Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (QYZDJ-SSW-DQC035), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Grant No. ZR2016DB20).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Soil Environment and Pollution Remediation, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 71 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu, China

    Yang Song, Xiaona Li, Min Xu, Yongrong Bian, Xinglun Yang, Chenggang Gu, Fang Wang & Xin Jiang

  2. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water and Soil Conservation and Environmental Protection, College of Resources and Environment, Linyi University, Linyi, 276000, Shandong, China

    Wei Jiao

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Song, Y., Li, X., Xu, M. et al. Does Biochar Induce Similar Successions of Microbial Community Structures Among Different Soils?. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 103, 642–650 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-019-02687-x

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