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This study investigated the effects of environmental variables on soil fungal communities under different vegetation types in order to advance our understanding of soil fungal community assembly associated with restored vegetation and under different climate conditions. Three vegetation types (no grazing and logging in grasslands and forests, and planted herbs and small shrubs in bare land in the desert) on the Loess Plateau in China were chosen as subjects, and pyrosequencing of the 18S rRNA gene region was used to analyze the changes in the diversity and community composition of soil fungi. Vegetation type had significant effects on soil fungal diversity. The forest and grassland soils had similar fungal diversity levels, which were significantly higher than that of the desert ecosystem. Multiple regression models indicated that total phosphorus in soil and the ratio of soil organic carbon to total nitrogen in soil (C:N) were the best predictors of soil fungal diversity. Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were the most dominant phyla in all soils, accounting for 83.6 % of fungal sequences. Dothideomycetes (26.6 %), Sordariomycetes (18.3 %), Eurotiomycetes (8.5 %), Pezizomycetes (12.1 %

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Author

Zeng, Quanchao; Liu, Yang; Xiao, Li; An, Shaoshan

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0031-4056)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)