Short-Term Grazing Exclusion Alters Soil Bacterial Co-occurrence Patterns Rather Than Community Diversity or Composition in Temperate Grasslands.

ABSTRACT: Grazing exclusion is one of the most common practices for degraded grassland restoration worldwide. Soil microorganisms are critical components in soil and play important roles in maintaining grassland ecosystem functions. However, the changes of soil bacterial community characteristics during grazing exclusion for different types of grassland remain unclear. In this study, the soil bacterial community diversity and composition as well as the co-occurrence patterns were investigated and compared between grazing exclusion (4 years) and the paired adjacent grazing sites for three types of temperate grasslands (desert steppe, typical steppe, and meadow steppe) in the Hulunbuir grassland of Inner Mongolia. Our results showed that short-term grazing exclusion decreased the complexity and connec

SUBMITTER: Wang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9005194 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature