Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Blaustein Institutes for
Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion,
Israel
Arielle M. Farrell
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
Adam Št'ovíček
Department of Microbiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Czech University
of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, Prague 6, 16500, Czech Republic
Lusine Ghazaryan
Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Blaustein Institutes for
Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion,
Israel
Itamar Giladi
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
In this paper, we describe changes in desert soil bacterial diversity and function when two ecosystem engineers, shrubs and ant nests, in an arid environment are present. The results show that bacterial activity increases when there are ecosystem engineers and that their impact is non-additive. This is one of a handful of studies that investigated the separate and combined effects of ecosystem engineers on soil bacterial communities investigating both composition and function.
In this paper, we describe changes in desert soil bacterial diversity and function when two...
