Table 1 Vegetation formations and soil types at the different study sites.
Sites | Vegetation formations | Soil types | Acronym in this work | Nb. of plots and soil samples | Nb. of plots retained for analyses | Illumina MiSeq run | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ITS2 (fungi) | V4 (bacteria) | ||||||
Goro plateau (GO) | Open low maquis | Iron crust soil | GO.OLM | 6 | 6 | 6 | C |
Closed low maquis | GO.CLM | 6 | 6 | 6 | C | ||
Gymnostoma deplancheanum-dominated maquis | GO.TCM.Gd | 6 | 6 | 6 | C | ||
Preforest maquis | GO.TCM.Fs | 6 | 6 | 6 | C | ||
Revegetated sites | Iron crust and lateritic soils | GO.RS | 7 | 7 | 7 | C | |
Rivière Blanche (RB) | Sedge-dominated maquis | Lateritic soil | RB.MqCy | 4 | 0 | 4 | A |
Tristaniopsis-dominated maquis* | RB.MqTr | 4 | 4 | 4 | A | ||
Nothofagus aequilateralis-dominated rainforest | RB.NaF | 4 | 4 | 4 | A | ||
Mixed rainforest | RB.MF | 4 | 4 | 4 | A | ||
Bois du sud (BS) | Arillastrum gummiferum-dominated rainforest | Lateritic soil | BS.AgF | 4 | 4 | 4 | B |
Kopéto (KO) | Sedge-dominated maquis | Lateritic soil | KO.MqCy | 4 | 3 | 4 | A |
Tristaniopsis-dominated maquis** | KO.MqTr | 4 | 4 | 4 | A | ||
Nothofagus aequilateralis-dominated rainforest | KO.NaF | 4 | 4 | 4 | A | ||
Mixed rainforest | KO.MF | 4 | 2 | 4 | A | ||
Tiébaghi (TI) | Bushy maquis | Iron crust soils | TI.BuMq | 3 | 3 | 3 | B |
Shrubby maquis | TI.ShMq | 3 | 3 | 3 | B | ||
Tall closed maquis | TI.TCM | 3 | 3 | 3 | B | ||
Maré (MA) (out group) | Forest | Gibbsic and humic soils | MA.F | 5 | 4 | 4 | C |
Short fallow | MA.SF | 5 | 5 | 5 | C | ||
Long fallow | MA.LF | 5 | 3 | 4 | C | ||
91 | 81 | 89 | 3 | ||||
