Subarctic soil microbial communities are affected by aboveground vegetation
Aboveground vegetation has impacts on soil microbial communities e.g. through roots, root extracts, plant litter. We studied subarctic soil bacterial and fungal communities in Kilpisjärvi area in Finland, based on region V4 of 16S rRNA gene and region ITS2, respectively. We aim to connect microbial sequence data with aboveground biodiversity (plant community composition) and geodiversity variables.