Nutrients available in the soil regulate the changes of soil microbial community alongside degradation of alpine meadows in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Influence of degradation on soil water availability in an alpine swamp meadow on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau

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Increased contribution of root exudates to soil carbon input during grassland degradation

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Plant community of alpine steppe shows stronger association with soil properties than alpine meadow alongside degradation

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Composition and diversity of soil microbial communities in the alpine wetland and alpine forest ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau

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Response of soil nutrients and stoichiometry to elevated nitrogen deposition in alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Alpine grassland degradation reduced plant species diversity and stability of plant communities in the Northern Tibet Plateau

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Enhancing sustainability of grassland ecosystems through ecological restoration and grazing management in an era of climate change on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Degraded patch formation significantly changed microbial community composition in alpine meadow soils

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Changes of soil properties regulate the soil organic carbon loss with grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

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Long-term nitrogen fertilization decreases bacterial diversity and favors the growth of Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria in agro-ecosystems across the globe

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Understanding the relationships between grazing intensity and the distribution of nitrifying communities in grassland soils

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Influence of climatic and geographic factors on the spatial distribution of Qinghai spruce forests in the dryland Qilian Mountains of Northwest China

(2018) Wenjuan Yang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Long-term N and P additions alter the scaling of plant nitrogen to phosphorus in a Tibetan alpine meadow

(2018) Juanjuan Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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(2018) Chao Zhang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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(2018) Lingfei Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Soil microbial community composition closely associates with specific enzyme activities and soil carbon chemistry in a long-term nitrogen fertilized grassland

(2018) Yue Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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(2018) Heng Zhou et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Is Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau “drying”? Historical estimations and future trends of surface soil moisture

(2018) Qiang Zhang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Diversity patterns of the rhizosphere and bulk soil microbial communities along an altitudinal gradient in an alpine ecosystem of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

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(2017) Ning Ling et al.   GEODERMA

Embracing the unknown: disentangling the complexities of the soil microbiome

(2017) Noah Fierer   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Soil bacterial community response to vegetation succession after fencing in the grassland of China

(2017) Quanchao Zeng et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Soil pH is a major driver of soil diazotrophic community assembly in Qinghai-Tibet alpine meadows

(2017) Yansu Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Spatial and temporal dynamics of nitrogen fixing, nitrifying and denitrifying microbes in an unfertilized grassland soil

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Spatial distribution of Qinghai spruce forests and the thresholds of influencing factors in a small catchment, Qilian Mountains, northwest China

(2017) Wenjuan Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Differential response of alpine steppe and alpine meadow to climate warming in the central Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

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Effect of the conversion of conventional pasture to intensive silvopastoral systems on edaphic bacterial and ammonia oxidizer communities in Colombia

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Patterns and drivers of soil microbial communities in Tibetan alpine and global terrestrial ecosystems

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Climate change and human activities altered the diversity and composition of soil microbial community in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Shifts in microbial communities do not explain the response of grassland ecosystem function to plant functional composition and rainfall change

(2016) Ellen L. Fry et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil bacterial community dynamics reflect changes in plant community and soil properties during the secondary succession of abandoned farmland in the Loess Plateau

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Effect of carbon source type on intracellular stored polymers during endogenous denitritation (ED) treating landfill leachate

(2016) Lei Miao et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems

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Heavily intensified grazing reduces root production in an Inner Mongolia temperate steppe

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(2015) Junhui Cheng et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Stability and succession of the rhizosphere microbiota depends upon plant type and soil composition

(2015) Andrzej Tkacz et al.   ISME Journal

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(2015) Siyuan He et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

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Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

(2014) Suzanne M. Prober et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Different Continuous Cropping Spans Significantly Affect Microbial Community Membership and Structure in a Vanilla-Grown Soil as Revealed by Deep Pyrosequencing

(2014) Wu Xiong et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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The soil carbon/nitrogen ratio and moisture affect microbial community structures in alkaline permafrost-affected soils with different vegetation types on the Tibetan plateau

(2014) Xinfang Zhang et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

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Above- and Belowground Response along Degradation Gradient in an Alpine Grassland of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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A review of formation mechanism and restoration measures of “black-soil-type” degraded grassland in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

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Predicting soil organic carbon and total nitrogen using mid- and near-infrared spectra for Brookston clay loam soil in Southwestern Ontario, Canada

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(2011) Jizhong Zhou et al.   ISME Journal

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(2011) Noah Fierer et al.   ISME Journal

Artificial Management Improves Soil Moisture, C, N and P in an Alpine Sandy Meadow of Western China

(2011) Gao-Lin WU et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

(2011) Nicola Segata et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

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(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Shifts in bacterial community structure associated with inputs of low molecular weight carbon compounds to soil

(2010) Kathryn G. Eilers et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The effect of climate warming and permafrost thaw on desertification in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Xian Xue et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

A grassland classification system and its application in China

(2008) J. Z. Ren et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL