Fig. 1: A conceptual diagram illustrating the effect of crop rotation on soil microbial communities. | Nature Communications

Fig. 1: A conceptual diagram illustrating the effect of crop rotation on soil microbial communities.

From: Crop rotation differentially increases soil bacterial and fungal diversities in global croplands: a meta-analysis

Fig. 1

‘+’ represents expected positive responses to crop rotation, while ‘+/−’ denotes either positive, negative or no responses to crop rotation. The symbol ‘?’ highlights three critical questions: 1) does crop rotation reshape microbial diversity and structure on a global scale? If so, do bacterial and fungal community diversities and structures respond to crop rotation in the same way? and 2) how do the transitions between different crop types in a crop rotation, crop transition, crop growth stage, rotational cycles, crop species richness, soil characteristics, and climatic factors modulate these responses? The conceptual diagram was created using BioRender elements (Created in BioRender. Ma, S. (https://BioRender.com/bncog3m).

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