Articles | Volume 8, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1119-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-1119-2017
Research article
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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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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.