Soil functionality produced by soil mixing: The role of inoculum and substrate

We performed a microcosm soil mixing incubation experiment to assess the functionality and composition of the microbial communities of “new” created soils. Sterilized soils from a deciduous beech forest in Taxiarchis (T) area and an evergreen sclerophyllous formation in Eleochoria (E) area (substrates) were either self‐ or cross‐inoculated with a small percentage (6%) of nonsterilized soils (inoculums) from E or T or an equal mixing of both. The...