Planting grass enhances relations between soil microbes and enzyme activities and restores soil functions in a degraded grassland.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Forage culture is a common way to restore degraded grasslands and soil functions, in which the reconstruction of the soil microbial community and its relationship with extracellular enzyme activity (EEAs) can characterize the recovery effects of degraded grasslands. However, the impacts of forage culture on the interaction between soil microbes and EEAs and whether the recovery effect of soil functions depends on the varying degradation statuses remain unclear.

Methods

We conducted a plantation of a dominant grass, Leymus chinensis, in the soil collected from severe, moderate, light, and non-degradation statuses in the Songnen grassland in northeastern China. We measured soil microbial diversity and soil EEAs, and predicted microbial functional groups usi

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10903263 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature