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We sampled 27 composite soil samples from three soil depths (0\u201310, 10\u201320, and 20\u201330 cm) across three management regimes, including extensive management (EM), 10-year abandonment (AM10), and 20-year abandonment (AM20), in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) forests at Taohuajiang State Forest Farm, Taojiang County, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, China. 16S rRNA and ITS amplicon sequencing were combined with measurements of soil physicochemical properties and enzyme activities. Management cessation and subsequent abandonment were associated with distinct soil environmental gradients, especially in total\n                    <jats:italic>K<\/jats:italic>\n                    , pH, and ammonium nitrogen. Bacterial Shannon diversity declined monotonically with abandonment duration (EM &amp;gt; AM10 &amp;gt; AM20), while fungal diversity exhibited a significant treatment \u00d7 depth interaction (\n                    <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 8.80, BH-adjusted\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &amp;lt; 0.001), indicating that soil depth modulated fungal responses to abandonment. PERMANOVA explained 77.0% of bacterial community variation but only 34.4% of fungal variation. Assembly analyses revealed that bacterial communities shifted from dispersal limitation (91.7% in EM) toward homogeneous selection (52.8% in AM20), whereas fungi were predominantly governed by stochastic processes (drift or undominated, 75.2%). Bacterial and fungal communities thus showed divergent ecological responses along the abandonment gradient: bacteria exhibited stronger deterministic assembly associated with soil environmental gradients, whereas fungi retained greater stochasticity and depth dependence. These findings clarify the belowground ecological consequences of management cessation in moso bamboo forests of the central Hunan hilly region and highlight the need to consider both bacterial and fungal communities when assessing the ecological effects of bamboo forest abandonment.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmicb.2026.1880979","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,31]],"date-time":"2026-08-31T05:41:07Z","timestamp":1788154867000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Management cessation drives divergent bacterial and fungal community assembly in moso bamboo forests of the central Hunan hilly region, China"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Yong","family":"Meng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology","place":["Changsha City, Hunan, China"]},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Woody Oil Resources Utilization, Hunan Academy of Forestry","place":["Changsha, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Meiqun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology","place":["Changsha City, Hunan, China"]},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Woody Oil Resources Utilization, Hunan Academy of Forestry","place":["Changsha, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Minggao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Woody Oil Resources Utilization, Hunan Academy of Forestry","place":["Changsha, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wende","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Forestry, Central South University of Forestry and Technology","place":["Changsha City, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wensheng","family":"Ai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Woody Oil Resources Utilization, Hunan Academy of Forestry","place":["Changsha, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ming","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Woody Oil Resources Utilization, Hunan Academy of Forestry","place":["Changsha, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chao","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Woody Oil Resources Utilization, Hunan Academy of Forestry","place":["Changsha, Hunan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"233","DOI":"10.1038\/s41586-018-0386-6","article-title":"Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome","volume":"560","author":"Bahram","year":"2018","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"505","DOI":"10.1038\/nature13855","article-title":"Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning","volume":"515","author":"Bardgett","year":"2014","journal-title":"Nature"},{"key":"B3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"581","DOI":"10.1038\/nmeth.3869","article-title":"DADA2: high-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data","volume":"13","author":"Callahan","year":"2016","journal-title":"Nat. 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