Intertillage during Natural Farming Rice Paddy Production Negatively Impacted the Microbial Abundances in Soils but Not Diversities

<div>Principal component analysis (PCA) on (a) treatment with no tillage (NT, cross) and 5 times tillage (5T, triangle) and (b) interaction between duration (early vegetative phase (gray) and late vegetative phase (black)) and location (rice proximity, soil surface, and 10 cm depth). (c) Arrows show bacteria on genus level. Axes 1 and 2 account for 72 and 16% of the variation, respectively.</div>

Applied and Environmental Soil Science

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Figure 4: Intertillage during Natural Farming Rice Paddy Production Negatively Impacted the Microbial Abundances in Soils but Not Diversities 