Unraveling the relationship between plant species and physicochemical properties on rhizosphere and rhizoplane fungal communities in alpine wet meadows

Wet meadows, a type of wetland, are impacted by significant climate fluctuation and human activity, impacting soil microorganisms that play an essential role in ecosystem processes. Understanding the underlying ecological mechanisms and processes of wet meadows depends on the fungal communities associated with the plant roots. We used Illumina MiSeq profiling for amplicon sequencing to determine how environmental factors and elevation affect the fungal communities of the rhizosphere and rhizoplane related to three plant species, Cremanthodium ellisii, Cremanthodium lineare, and Caltha scaposa, in alpine wet meadows. The phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota dominated the rhizosphere (54.5