Stability affected by press disturbance
Intensity of press disturbance determined soil community stability to pulse disturbance
The current mesocosm-scale study exposes soil bacterial communities to different intensities of press disturbances, imposed by irrigation types, including fresh-water (W), fertilized fresh-water (FW), treated-wastewater (TW) and artificial-wastewater containing high organic load (AW), and evaluate their response to pulse disturbance caused by heat. Bacterial communities under high levels of press disturbance (AW) showed lower resistance to the pulse disturbance than soils under lower disturbance intensities (TW or FW).