Summary
Due to their central role in ecosystems functioning and their ability to rapidly respond to environmental changes, soil microorganisms could potentially be used for monitoring ecosystems recovery in the context of degraded land restoration. However, these belowground organisms have been, to date, largely neglected. Here, we investigated fungal and bacterial community diversity, composition, and structure from ultramafic soils in New Caledonia, an archipelago in the southwest Pacific recognized as a priority for conservation and restoration. The emerging approach of high-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA (eDNA) – metabarcoding of eDNA – was used to compare soil microbial communities from four different native vegetation types, representing different stages of a chronoseque
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