Fuwei Wang, Yue Gao, Xin Li, Mengdi Luan, Xiaoyi Wang, Yanwen Zhao, Xianhui Zhou, Guozhen Du, Peng Wang, Chenglong Ye, Hui Guo
Soil acidification often suppresses microbial growth and activities, resulting in a negative impact on soil organic carbon (C) decomposition. While the detrimental effects of acidification on soil and plant properties have been extensively studied, less attention has been paid on the shifts in soil microbial communities and their influences of the decomposition of organic C with different chemical complexities. Taking advantage of an acid addition experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow, here we examined the response of soil microbial communities to soil acidification and microbial effect on the decomposition of organic C with different chemical complexities (i...
April 21, 2024: Science of the Total Environment