Increasing precipitation weakened the negative effects of simulated warming on soil microbial community composition in a semi-arid sandy grassland.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial diversity, composition, and function are sensitive to global change factors. It has been predicted that the temperature and precipitation will increase in northern China. Although many studies have been carried out to reveal how global change factors affect soil microbial biomass and composition in terrestrial ecosystems, it is still unexplored how soil microbial diversity and composition, especially in microbial functional genes, respond to increasing precipitation and warming in a semiarid grassland of northern China. A field experiment was established to simulate warming and increasing precipitation in a temperate semiarid grassland of the Horqin region. Soil bacterial (16S) and fungal (ITS1) diversity, composition, and functional genes were analyzed after two growing sea

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9872155 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature