Do bacterial and fungal communities in soils of the Bolivian Altiplano change under shorter fallow periods?

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dc.contributor.authorGomez-Montano, L.en
dc.contributor.authorJumpponen, A.en
dc.contributor.authorGonzales, Miguel Angelen
dc.contributor.authorCusicanqui, Jorgeen
dc.contributor.authorValdivia, Corinneen
dc.contributor.authorMotavalli, Peter P.en
dc.contributor.authorHerman, M.en
dc.contributor.authorGarrett, Karen A.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialBoliviaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:30:27Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:30:27Zen
dc.date.issued2013en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractLeaving fields fallow can improve soil fertility, but there is limited information on the effect of fallowing on soil microbiology. This article presents a study of soil fungal and bacterial properties in fallowed land in the Umala and Ancoriames municipalities of the Bolivian altiplano. The study tested the influence of fallowing, and of the presence of the native plant Thola, on fungal and bacterial populations. In Ancroaimes, fungal diversity increased with fallowing, while in Umala fungal diversity decreased with fallowing. Conversely, bacterial diversity with fallowing decreased in Ancoraimes and increased in Umala. The presence of Thola did not alter the level of diversity, but did result in higher populations of certain genera. Although these results demonstrate a variety of responses to fallowing, they establish its significance on bacterial and fungal populationsen
dc.description.notesLTRA-7 (Pathways to CAPS in the Andes)en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier7249en
dc.identifier.citationSoil Biology & Biochemistry 65:50-69en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/70183en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071713001351en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2013 by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserveden
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSoil organic matteren
dc.subjectConservation agricultureen
dc.subjectFallow fieldsen
dc.subjectField Scaleen
dc.titleDo bacterial and fungal communities in soils of the Bolivian Altiplano change under shorter fallow periods?en
dc.typeAbstracten
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