Variations in the diversity of soil microbial community and structure
under various categories of degradation wetland in Sanjiang Plain,
northeastern China
Abstract
Sanjiang Plain is the largest area of freshwater wetland in China. Due
to agricultural development, a large volume of groundwater in this area
has been extracted over the last few decades, resulting in wetland
degradation. In order to provide information for the development and
protection of wetland ecosystem, investigations examining processes of
wetland degradation are important. The aim of this work is to assess the
impacts of wetland degradation on the communities of soil microbial
community under four different types of degradation wetland including
swamp meadow (SW), meadow wetland (MW), paddy farmland (PF), and
cropland (CL) in Sanjiang Plain. Using both 16S and ITS rRNA gene
amplicon sequencing to evaluate the fungal and bacterial diversity and
composition. The dominant fungal phyla and bacterial were Ascomycota and
Proteobacteria in this study, respectively. In addition, wetland
degradation remarkably augmented the partial affluence of Chloroflexi
and Gemmatimonadetes, but the partial affluence of Proteobacteria and
Verrucomicrobia significantly diminished. Bacterial Shannon index of SW
was lower than those in other sites. While, fungal diversity had no
significant differences under different types of degradation wetland.
Along with the wetland degradation, such differential reactions of the
dominant phyla microbial and diversity were notably coordinated with TP,
TK, AK, and SOM, which were the most essential criteria influencing the
soil microbial communities. Generally, these outcomes suggested that
wetland degradation could result in variations in soil microbial
community composition structure. These changes could be used as an early
warning signal for the degradation wetland in Sanjiang Plain.