The effect of sustainable management practices on the bacterial community in different European croplands

Currently, monitoring Europe's soils is crucial since over 60 % of these soils are experiencing different types of degradation, which can potentially affect food production. Recently, a shift toward sustainable soil management has occurred. This shift away from conventional management is postul...

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Autores: Cuartero, J., Frey, B., Zornoza, R., Sánchez-Navarro, V., Canfora, L., Özbolat, O., Egea-Cortines, M., Farina, R., Fritze, H., Tuomivirta, T., Lång, K., Lemola, R., Álvaro-Fuentes, Jorge, Huerta-Lwanga, E., Pascual, J. A., Ros Muñoz, Margarita Matilde
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:dnet:digitalcsic_::f3a3075aed18cea7baed1f5d1588b61f
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/431121
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/105015497345
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Bacteria
Climatic zone
Metabarcoding
PICRUSt
Soil
Sustainable practices
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Resumo:Currently, monitoring Europe's soils is crucial since over 60 % of these soils are experiencing different types of degradation, which can potentially affect food production. Recently, a shift toward sustainable soil management has occurred. This shift away from conventional management is postulated to increase soil microbial diversity. However, it is unclear whether sustainable management can shift bacterial community across Europe. The Diverfarming project uses case studies to explore how diversified cropping systems with low-input practices can increase soil fertility, sequester carbon, and increase microbial diversity under differing climate conditions. To explore this, we employed metabarcoding sequencing to amplify the 16S rRNA region and soil chemical properties to assess the effects of organic amendment, rotation/intercropping and diversification with reduced tillage compared to conventional systems in different case studies. We observed that richness and Shannon index were mainly affected by climate and soil chemical properties but not by diversification. However, diversification changed the microbial community and enhanced potential microbial functionality, especially diversification of organic amendments, which also increase total organic carbon and nitrogen. We identified specific bacterial taxa associated with diversification, such as Rubrobacter, MND1, Pontibacter and Sphingomonas, highlighting the potential benefits of some species of these genera in diversification management ecosystems.