PRJNA675071
Microbial diversity associated with leaves and flowers
We exposed standardized plant communities to different levels of invertebrate numbers and biomass and tracked effects on the diversity and composition of bacterial communities associated with flowers and leaves of Scorzoneroides autumnalis and Trifolium pratense using next-generation 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Our data indicate that invertebrate decline reduces bacterial richness and beta-diversity and alters community composition.