Recovery of microbial communities after slash-and-burn Raw sequence reads
This project examines the recovery of soil microbial communities following slash-and-burn agriculture, a land-use practice that disrupts ecosystem functions and can lead to long-term soil degradation and reduced agricultural productivity and forest regeneration capacity. By characterizing changes in microbial diversity and abundance across multiple stages of post-burn succession, the study seeks to identify key biological processes that underpin soil restoration and ecosystem resilience. Understanding these recovery pathways is critical for anticipating the ecological impacts of land-use change and for guiding sustainable land management in fire-affected tropical and subtropical regions. Sequencing was performed at the Joint Microbiome Facility of the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna under the project ID JMF-2212-08.