Plant and soil properties mediate the response of soil microbial communities to moderate grazing in a semiarid grassland of northern China
Lingling Chen, Hongbin Xu, Yongchang Wu, Taogetao Baoyin
Topics & Concepts
GrazingGrasslandPlant communityEnvironmental scienceBiomass (ecology)EcosystemAgronomySpecies richnessConservation grazingSoil biodiversitySoil waterMicrobial population biologyEcologyAgroforestryBiologySoil fertilitySoil scienceBacteriaGeneticsMicrobial Community Ecology and PhysiologySoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsGut microbiota and health