Land-use changes influence soil bacterial communities in a meadow grassland in Northeast China

Cao, Chengyou; Zhang, Ying; Qian, Wei; Liang, Caiping; Wang, Congmin; Tao, Shuang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1119-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1119-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1119-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 5

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26 Oct 2017

Research article |

| 26 Oct 2017

Land-use changes influence soil bacterial communities in a meadow grassland in Northeast China

Chengyou Cao, Ying Zhang, Wei Qian, Caiping Liang, Congmin Wang, and Shuang Tao

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Final revised paper (published on 26 Oct 2017)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'soil sciience', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Aug 2017
- AC1: 'reply to RC1', Cao Chengyou, 10 Aug 2017
RC2: 'Comments on se-2017-69', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'reply to RC2', Cao Chengyou, 21 Aug 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Cao Chengyou on behalf of the Authors (12 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (13 Sep 2017) by Marc Oliva

ED: Publish as is (24 Sep 2017) by Antonio Jordán (Executive editor)

AR by Cao Chengyou on behalf of the Authors (25 Sep 2017)

Short summary

The influences of land-use conversion on soil properties and bacterial communities were assessed. Diversity was detected in four distinct land-use systems through high-throughput sequencing. Land-use changes affected soil properties and bacterial community structures. The microbial dominant taxa were unchanged, but their relative abundances were significantly different, indicating that the effects of land-use conversion on bacterial communities were more quantitative than qualitative.