Soil microorganisms are crucial to indicate ecosystem functions of terrestrial ecosystems. However, the responses of microbial communities to soil nutrient limitation in desert-grassland are still poorly understood. Hence, we investigated soil microbial community structures and metabolic characteristics in a desert-grassland ecological transition zone from the northern Loess Plateau, China, and explored the association of microbial communities with nutrient limitation via high-throughput sequencing. Threshold elemental ratios (TER) indicated that the microbial communities were strongly limited by nitrogen (N) under A. ordosica and P. tabuliformis communities. The phosphorus (P) limitation of microbial communities was observed in the aeolian...
Free to read Soil microorganisms are critical to ecosystem functioning and the maintenance of soil f...
Soil bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient recycling and storage in terrestrial e...
Soil microbial communities link soil and plants and play a key role in connecting above-ground and b...
Soil microorganisms are crucial to indicate ecosystem functions of terrestrial ecosystems. However, ...
The ongoing expansion of shrub encroachment into grasslands represents a unique form of land cover c...
Soil microorganisms are influenced by various abiotic and biotic factors at the field plot scale. Li...
Enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition can greatly influence the soil nitrogen content and soil mi...
Semi-arid and arid regions account for >40 % of the land area worldwide and provide food resource...
With ongoing climate change, aridity is increasing worldwide, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem f...
Similar land-use types usually have similar soil properties, and, most likely, similar microbial com...
Although the patterns and drivers of soil microbial community composition are well studied, little i...
Due to the region’s social economy and historical culture, rough grazing has led to unresolved grass...
Desert microbes are expected to be substantially sensitive to global environmental changes, such as ...
Arid ecosystems are characterized as having stressful conditions of low energy and nutrient availabi...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
Free to read Soil microorganisms are critical to ecosystem functioning and the maintenance of soil f...
Soil bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient recycling and storage in terrestrial e...
Soil microbial communities link soil and plants and play a key role in connecting above-ground and b...
Soil microorganisms are crucial to indicate ecosystem functions of terrestrial ecosystems. However, ...
The ongoing expansion of shrub encroachment into grasslands represents a unique form of land cover c...
Soil microorganisms are influenced by various abiotic and biotic factors at the field plot scale. Li...
Enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition can greatly influence the soil nitrogen content and soil mi...
Semi-arid and arid regions account for >40 % of the land area worldwide and provide food resource...
With ongoing climate change, aridity is increasing worldwide, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem f...
Similar land-use types usually have similar soil properties, and, most likely, similar microbial com...
Although the patterns and drivers of soil microbial community composition are well studied, little i...
Due to the region’s social economy and historical culture, rough grazing has led to unresolved grass...
Desert microbes are expected to be substantially sensitive to global environmental changes, such as ...
Arid ecosystems are characterized as having stressful conditions of low energy and nutrient availabi...
For centuries ecologists have studied how the diversity and functional traits of plant and animal co...
Free to read Soil microorganisms are critical to ecosystem functioning and the maintenance of soil f...
Soil bacterial communities play an important role in nutrient recycling and storage in terrestrial e...
Soil microbial communities link soil and plants and play a key role in connecting above-ground and b...