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63-Nematode grazing promotes bacterial community dynamics in soil at the aggregate level.OPENORIGINALARTICLENematodegrazingpromotesbacterialcommunitydynamicsinsoilattheaggregatelevelYujiJiang1,ManqiangLiu2,JiabaoZhang1,YanChen1,XiaoyunChen2,LijunChen1,HuixinLi2,Xue-XianZhang3andBoSun11StateKeyLaboratoryofSoilandSustainableAgriculture,InstituteofSoilScience,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Nanjing,China;2CollegeofResourcesandEnvironmentalSciences,NanjingAgriculturalUniversity,Nanjing,Chinaand3InstituteofNaturalandMathematicalSciences,MasseyUniversityatAlbany,Auckland,NewZealandNematodepredationhasimportantrolesindeterminingbacterialcommunitycompositionanddynamics,buttheextentoftheeffectsremainslargelyrudimentary,particularlyinnaturalenvironmentsettings.Here,weinvestigatedthecomplexmicrobial–microfaunalinteractionsintherhizosphereofmaizegrowninredsoils,whichwerederivedfromfourlong-termfertilizationregimes.Root-freerhizospheresoilsampleswereseparatedintothreeaggregatefractionswherebytheabundancea