The soil microbiomes of forest ecosystems in Kenya : their diversity and environmental drivers
dc.contributor.author | Onyango, Lorine Akinyi | |
dc.contributor.author | Ngonga, Florence Atieno | |
dc.contributor.author | Karanja, Edward Nderitu | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuja, Josiah Ochieng’ | |
dc.contributor.author | Boga, Hamadi Iddi | |
dc.contributor.author | Cowan, Don A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Mwangi, Kennedy Wanjau | |
dc.contributor.author | Maghenda, Marianne Wughanga | |
dc.contributor.author | Marinho Lebre, Pedro Bixirao Neto | |
dc.contributor.author | Kambura, Anne Kelly | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-23T13:17:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-23T13:17:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05-02 | |
dc.description | DATA AVAILABILITY : The demultiplexed high-quality sequence reads has been deposited in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Sequence Read Archive (SRA), as Bio Project ID: PRJNA851255 and study accession numbers available for download at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biopr oject/851255. This Whole Genome Shotgun project has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the Bioproject PRJNA291812. The metadata, soil chemistry data, input files for Qiime and R analysis scripts were deposited at https://zenodo.org/ and a DOI-10.5281/zenodo.7827433 available using the link; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.78274 32. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Soil microbiomes in forest ecosystems act as both nutrient sources and sinks through a range of processes including organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling, and humic compound incorporation into the soil. Most forest soil microbial diversity studies have been performed in the northern hemisphere, and very little has been done in forests within African continent. This study examined the composition, diversity and distribution of prokaryotes in Kenyan forests top soils using amplicon sequencing of V4-V5 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene. Additionally, soil physicochemical characteristics were measured to identify abiotic drivers of prokaryotic distribution. Different forest soils were found to have statistically distinct microbiome compositions, with Proteobacteria and Crenarchaeota taxa being the most differentially abundant across regions within bacterial and archaeal phyla, respectively. Key bacterial community drivers included pH, Ca, K, Fe, and total N while archaeal diversity was shaped by Na, pH, Ca, total P and total N. To contextualize the prokaryote diversity of Kenyan forest soils on a global scale, the sample set was compared to amplicon data obtained from forest biomes across the globe; displaying them to harbor distinct microbiomes with an over-representation of uncultured taxa such as TK-10 and Ellin6067 genera. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Biochemistry | en_US |
dc.description.department | Genetics | en_US |
dc.description.department | Microbiology and Plant Pathology | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | am2024 | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | SDG-15:Life on land | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | USAID, The Oppenheimer Foundation and the University of Pretoria. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | https://www.nature.com/srep | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Onyango, L.A., Ngonga, F.A., Karanja, E.N. et al. 2023, 'The soil microbiomes of forest ecosystems in Kenya : their diversity and environmental drivers', Scientific Reports, vol. 13, art. 7156, pp. 1-14. https://DOI.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33993-4. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1038/s41598-023-33993-4 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94920 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Nature Reseach | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. | en_US |
dc.subject | Soil microbiomes | en_US |
dc.subject | Composition | en_US |
dc.subject | Diversity | en_US |
dc.subject | African continent | en_US |
dc.subject | SDG-15: Life on land | en_US |
dc.title | The soil microbiomes of forest ecosystems in Kenya : their diversity and environmental drivers | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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