Quantifying the immediate response of the soil microbial community to different grazing intensities on irrigated pastures.

ABSTRACT: Grazing is known to affect soil microbial communities, nutrient cycling, and forage quantity and quality over time. However, a paucity of information exists for the immediate changes in the soil physicochemical and microbial environment in response to different grazing strategies. Soil microbes drive nutrient cycling and are involved in plant-soil-microbe relationships, making them potentially vulnerable to plant-driven changes in the soil environment caused by grazing. To test the hypothesis that variable grazing intensities modulate immediate effects on the soil microbial community, we conducted a grazing trial of three management approaches; high-intensity, short-duration grazing (HDG), low-intensity, medium-duration grazing (LDG), and no grazing (NG). Soil and vegetation samples were c

SUBMITTER: Van Syoc E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782393 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature