Shifts in the soil bacterial community along a salinity gradient in the Yellow River Delta

• Published in: Land degradation & development Vol. 31; no. 16; pp. 2255 - 2267
• Main Authors: Zhao, Qingqing, Bai, Junhong, Gao, Yongchao, Zhao, Haixiao, Zhang, Guangliang, Cui, Baoshan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.10.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Acidobacteria; Bacteria; bacterial communities; bacterial community structure; bacterial diversity; Bacteroidetes; Bioindicators; bioinformatics; Calcium; Calcium ions; Chemical analysis; Chloroflexi; Coastal aquifers; coastal wetlands; coasts; Composition; Correlation analysis; Discriminant analysis; Diversity indices; Illumina sequencing; Indicator species; land degradation; Magnesium; Planctomycetes; Proteobacteria; Redundancy; river deltas; Rivers; rRNA 16S; Saline soils; Saline water intrusion; Salinity; Salinity effects; Salinization; Salt water intrusion; saltwater intrusion; Seawater; Soil analysis; Soil bacteria; Soil microorganisms; Soil salinity; soil salinization; Water analysis; Wetlands; Yellow River; Yellow River

Soil salinization has rapidly encroached from the coastline to inland areas over the past two decades in the Yellow River Delta (YRD). Soil samples were collected from low‐ (LSW), medium‐ (MSW), and high‐ (HSW) salinity wetlands at a depth of 0–20 cm for 16S rRNA sequencing and bioinformatic analyse...