Response of soil fungal-community structure and function to land conversion to agriculture in desert grassland.

ABSTRACT: Land conversion to agriculture is an important factor affecting soil ecological processes in the desert grasslands of northern China. However, soil fungal-community structure and function in response to Land conversion remain unclear. In this study, desert grassland, artificial shrubland, and land conversion were investigated in the western part of the Mu Us Sandland (Yanchi, Ningxia; Dingbian, Shaanxi). We found that land conversion significantly increased soil total carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, and available phosphorous and potassium contents. In the early stage of conversion to agricultural (April), soil fungal operational taxonomic units and abundance-based coverage estimator were lower than those of dessert grasslands and shrubland plots and had significant correlations with pH,

SUBMITTER: Kang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420991 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature