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Core microbes regulate plant-soil resilience by maintaining network resilience during long-term restoration of alpine grasslands

Yao Du, Yan Yang, Shengnan Wu, Xiaoxia Gao, Xiaoqing He, Shikui Dong

Nature Communications · 2025

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The alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), the world's highest plateau, have been severely degraded. To address this degradation, human-involved restoration efforts, including grassland cultivation, have been implemented. However, the impact of these practices on soil microbial community stability and its relationship with plant-soil system resilience has not been explored. In this study, we evaluate the effects of grassland restoration on microbial communities. We show that bacteria demonstrate higher composition resistance and resilience during the restoration process, when compared to fungi. The changes we observe in microbial community interactions support the stress gradient hypothesis. Our results emphasize the synergistic role of network resilience and the restorati

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Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1038/s41467-025-58080-2
Catalogue ID
SNmojqlw87-d2q6p7
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