Conclusions
Soil bacterial communities can be influenced by many factors (Sokol et
al., 2022). We highlight the well-studied impact of land cover type on
soil bacterial composition, diversity and network connectedness. These
findings highlight the need for further improved ecosystem restoration
practices that target the soil microbiome, which is a nascent field of
research (Farrell et al., 2020; Mohr et al., 2022). Our study also
provides a new look into soil microbial ecology by observing in
situ changes in soil bacterial communities across light-dark cycles,
which is a new lens through which to study soil microbial ecology.
Future soil bacteria studies using DNA-based tools should improve the
control of sampling time to avoid introducing unwanted noise into their
soil bacterial datasets.