Closing the gap: Examining the impact of source habitat proximity on plant and soil microbial communities in post-mining spoil heap primary succession
Lenka Mészárošová, Eliška Kuťáková, Petr Kohout, Zuzana Münzbergová, Petr Baldrian
The study examines how proximity to a source habitat affects plant and soil microbial communities during primary succession on a spoil heap, finding that plant communities are influenced by distance but microbial communities are not.
bioRxiv · Apr 15, 2024Microbiology