Soil microbial communities and the associated effect on soil organic carbon in response to plateau pika bioturbation in alpine grasslands

Alpine grasslands are vital in regulating carbon balance on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) because of the large soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, while persistent disturbance from the endemic small semifossorial herbivore, plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae, hereafter pika), may break this balance....

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Main Authors: Yu Qin, Xinyu Liu, Bo Huang, Hongyan Yu, Shuhua Yi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-10-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989423001968