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.