Soil properties rather than plant diversity mediate the response of soil bacterial community to N and P additions in an alpine meadow.

ABSTRACT: The alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, which is susceptible to global climate change and human activities, is subject to nutrient addition such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to enhance soil available nutrients and ecosystem productivity. Soil bacterial community partly drivers the effects of nutrient additions on ecosystem processes, whereas the factors influencing N and P additions on bacterial community in alpine meadows are not well documented. We conducted a N and P addition experiment in an alpine meadow ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with four treatments: untreated control (CK), N addition (N), P addition (P), and NP addition (NP). We employed a high-throughput Illumina Miseq sequencing technology to investigate the response of soil bacterial community to sh

SUBMITTER: Lin Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9668868 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature