Effects of Rhododendron removal on soil bacterial and fungal communities in southern Appalachian forests

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

• Fungal Communities 100%
• Bacterial Communities 100%
• Rhododendron 100%
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid 66%
• Soil Microbial Community 66%
• Tsuga canadensis 66%
• Floors 33%
• Saprotroph 33%
• Transponder 33%
• Hardwood 33%
• Amplicon 33%
• Bacteroidetes 33%
• Rhododendron Maximum 33%
• Actinobacteria 33%
• Purple Bacteria 33%
• Mycorrhiza 33%
• Arbuscular Mycorrhiza 33%
• Cyanobacteria 33%