The soil microbiome plays a pivotal role in biogeochemical cycles, particularly in carbon and nitrogen cycling, which are central to the regulation of Earth's climate. As global climate change accelerates, understanding whether the soil microbiome functions primarily as a mitigator or as a contributor to this threat is increasingly critical.
Recent advances in metagenomics, isotope tracing,...
Background: Agricultural grasslands are often managed intensively, influencing soil properties and local macro and micro- communities. The impacts of such anthropogenic changes are not limited to host diversity but can also affect diversity of host-associated microbial assemblages. These changes can have cascading effects across ecosystems, resulting in significant community alterations and...
Over centuries mountain pasture has been a traditional way of agriculture in the alpine regions in Europe. This seasonal grazing led to species- and nutrient rich alpine grassland combined with human maintenance even below the tree line. Due to societal change and economic pressure within the last 50 years lots of those mountain pastures had been abandoned. So, the study area Brunnenkopfalm in...
Clonal demographic traits play important roles in regulating community dynamics. Yet, it remains unclear how the responses of these clonal traits to drought might depend on previous drought exposure, and how drought responses vary among grasslands. We conducted a repeated drought experiment across four grasslands along an aridity gradient in the Mongolian plateau. We assessed the effects of...
