Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Volume 215, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.114178
Keywords
Park classification; Soil bacterial; Region distribution; Land use; Park management; Human activity
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFC1804601]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [42177221]
- BNU Interdisciplinary Research Foundation for the First-Year Doctoral Candidates [BNUXKJC2110]
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This study quantifies and compares the importance of up to 15 human activities on soil bacterial communities in Beijing urban parks. The results indicate significant differences in soil bacterial community structure based on different park types and land use history. Human activities have a non-negligible impact on soil bacteria, with direct human interference being more influential than natural causes.
In an era of unprecedented human influence, different human activities have different degrees of impact on specific bacteria, resulting in the regional biological homogenization of soil bacteria. However, the contribution of the impact that a large number of anthropogenic activities on bacteria remains unknown. Here, by high -throughput amplicon sequencing, we characterized the composition, diversity and influencing factors of soil microbes in Beijing urban parks at geographic space and park management aspect. It is the first time to quantify and compare the importance of the impact of up to 15 human activities on soil bacterial communities. The results show that the dominant bacterial phyla in Beijing urban parks were Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Acidobacteria and Chloroflexi. The environmental management of different park types, as well as the land use history and development conditions of different regions, had significant differences in soil bacterial community structure. Soil bacteria in urban parks were disturbed by direct human interference far more than natural causes. The most important factors were related to the number of tourists and residents, industrial production and land use pat-terns. These factors may also be related to the abundance of unknown bacteria in urban parks. This also directly shows that human activities have a non-negligible impact on soil bacteria. The ways in which different human activities brought by global urbanization and their impacting mechanisms are used should be the starting point of future research.
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