Nature Communications (May 2022)
Microbial functional changes mark irreversible course of Tibetan grassland degradation
- Andreas Breidenbach,
- Per-Marten Schleuss,
- Shibin Liu,
- Dominik Schneider,
- Michaela A. Dippold,
- Tilman de la Haye,
- Georg Miehe,
- Felix Heitkamp,
- Elke Seeber,
- Kyle Mason-Jones,
- Xingliang Xu,
- Yang Huanming,
- Jianchu Xu,
- Tsechoe Dorji,
- Matthias Gube,
- Helge Norf,
- Jutta Meier,
- Georg Guggenberger,
- Yakov Kuzyakov,
- Sandra Spielvogel
Affiliations
- Andreas Breidenbach
- Department for Crop Sciences, Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, University of Goettingen
- Per-Marten Schleuss
- Department of Soil Ecology, University of Bayreuth
- Shibin Liu
- Institute of Ecological Environment, Chengdu University of Technology
- Dominik Schneider
- Institute of Microbiology and Genetics and Goettingen Genomics Laboratory, University of Goettingen
- Michaela A. Dippold
- Department for Crop Sciences, Biogeochemistry of Agroecosystems, University of Goettingen
- Tilman de la Haye
- Department of Soil Science, University of Kiel
- Georg Miehe
- Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg
- Felix Heitkamp
- Environmental Control, Northwest German Forest Research Institute
- Elke Seeber
- Department of Botany, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Goerlitz
- Kyle Mason-Jones
- Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Department of Terrestrial Ecology
- Xingliang Xu
- Key Laboratory Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science
- Yang Huanming
- Beijing Genomics Institute
- Jianchu Xu
- Center for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Tsechoe Dorji
- CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- Matthias Gube
- Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, University of Goettingen
- Helge Norf
- Department of River Ecology, Department of Aquatic Ecosystems Analysis and Management, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH UFZ
- Jutta Meier
- Institute for Integrated Natural Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau
- Georg Guggenberger
- Institute of Soil Science, Leibniz Universität Hannover
- Yakov Kuzyakov
- Agricultural Soil Science, University of Goettingen
- Sandra Spielvogel
- Department of Soil Science, University of Kiel
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30047-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
The Tibetan Kobresia pastures store 2.5% of the world’s soil organic carbon. Here the authors show that soil degradation and microbial shifts may irreversibly diminish the carbon sink function and accelerate nutrient losses.
