Comparative analysis of soil prokaryotic community structure and function in Ethiopian Church Forests and adjacent habitats
Biazen Endalamaw, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Takeshi Taniguchi, Getu Abebe, Masataka Nakayama, Mitsuru Tsubo, Menale Wondie, Takeshi Abe, Yoseph Buta Hailu, Atsushi Tsunekawa · 2026
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Biazen Endalamaw and nine colleagues compare soil microbe communities across five habitats in dry Ethiopian mountain forests in a 2026 study. The gradient runs from protected church forest and state forest through community forest to shrubland and cropland. Gene sequencing profiled the tiny prokaryote residents. The team also modeled how communities assemble and guessed their jobs from their genes.
Calmer forests held more of two big groups, Actinobacteriota and Crenarchaeota. Disturbed sites shifted toward stress-tolerant types. Oddly, church and state forests showed lower variety than shrubland and fields. A few specialist types dominate there. About eighty-one percent of community change followed set environmental rules, not chance. Nitrogen handling, especially ammonia oxidation, shifted along the gradient. The authors say intact forests anchor soil life. Restoration should copy their conditions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Biazen Endalamaw, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Takeshi Taniguchi, Getu Abebe, Masataka Nakayama, Mitsuru Tsubo, Menale Wondie, Takeshi Abe, Yoseph Buta Hailu, Atsushi Tsunekawa |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66444 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |