Heavy grazing reduces soil bacterial diversity by increasing soil pH in a semi-arid steppe

Background In a context of long-term highly intensive grazing in grassland ecosystems, a better understanding of how quickly belowground biodiversity responds to grazing is required, especially for soil microbial diversity. Methods In this study, we conducted a grazing experiment which included the...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaonan Wang, Chengyang Zhou, Shining Zuo, Yixin Ji, Wenxin Liu, Ding Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2024-03-01
Series:PeerJ
Subjects:
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/17031.pdf