Urbanization Reduces Phyllosphere Microbial Network Complexity and Species Richness of Camphor Trees

Abstract

Studies on microbial communities associated with foliage in natural ecosystems have grown in number in recent years yet have rarely focused on urban ecosystems. With urbanization, phyllosphere microorganisms in the urban environment have come under pressures from increasing human activities. To explore the effects of urbanization on the phyllosphere microbial communities of urban ecosystems, we investigated the phyllosphere microbial structure and the diversity of camphor trees in eight parks along a suburban-to-urban gradient.

刘昊

PhD Candidate

My research interests include distributed robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter.