Progressive community, biogeochemical and evolutionary remodeling of the soil microbiome underpins long-term desert ecosystem restoration
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)
摘要
Ecological restoration of degraded lands is essential to human sustainability. Yet, an in-depth community, functional, and evolutionary microbial perspective of long-term restoration of damaged ecosystems is lacking. Herein, we comprehensively assessed the impact of long-term (up to 17 years) restoration of Tengger Desert, China, by multi-omic profiling of 1,910 topsoil samples. The soil biophysiochemical properties, especially soil hydraulics, microbiome stability, and functional diversity, significantly improved during restoration. The soil microbiome transitioned from an extreme oligotrophic and autotrophic community to a diverse copiotrophic ecosystem. The soil microbiota, including fungi, could mediate the soil physicochemical changes through metabolites. Importantly, the systematic rewiring of nutrient cycles featured the multi-domain preference of an efficient carbon fixation strategy in the extreme desert environment. Finally, the microbiome was evolving via positive selections of genes of biogeochemical cycles, resistance, and motility. In summary, we present a comprehensive community, functional, biogeochemical, and evolutionary landscape of the soil microbiome during the long-term restoration of desert environments. We highlight the crucial microbial role in restoration from soil hydraulic and biogeochemical perspectives, offering promising field applications.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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soil microbiome,evolutionary remodeling,restoration,long-term
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