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Fire regime, not time-since-fire, affects soil fungal community diversity and composition in temperate grasslands.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Sept 2016
Egidi Eleonora, McMullan-Fisher Sapphire, Morgan John W, May Tom, Zeeman Ben, Franks Ashley E
Abstract excerpt
Frequent burning is commonly undertaken to maintain diversity in temperate grasslands of southern Australia. How burning affects below-ground fungal community diversity remains unknown. We show, using a fungal rDNA metabarcoding approach (Illumina MiSeq), that the fungal community composition was influenced by fire regime (frequency) but not time-since-fire. Fungal community composition was resilient to direct...
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