47-Depth matters effects of precipitation regime o

47-Depth matters effects of precipitation regime on soil microbial activity upon rewetting of a plant-soil systemTheISMEJournalhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0079-zARTICLEDepthmatters:effectsofprecipitationregimeonsoilmicrobialactivityuponrewettingofaplant-soilsystemIlonkaC.Engelhardt1●AmyWelty1,5●StevenJ.Blazewicz2●DavidBru1●NadineRouard1●Marie-ChristineBreuil1●ArthurGessler3●LucíaGaliano3●JoséCarlosMiranda4●AyméSpor1●RomainL.Barnard1Received:22August2017/Revised:21December2017/Accepted:29December2017©InternationalSocietyforMicrobialEcology2018AbstractChangesinfrequencyandamplitudeofrainevents,thatis,precipitationpatterns,resultindifferentwaterconditionswithsoildepth,andlikelyaffectplantgrowthandshapeplantandsoilmicrobialactivity.Here,weused18Ostableisotopeprobing(SIP)toinvestigatebacterialandfungalcommunitiesthatactivelygrewornotuponrewetting,atthreedifferentdepthsinsoilmesocosmspreviouslysubjectedtofrequentorinfrequentwateringfor12weeks(equaltotalwaterinput).Phylogeneticmarkerge