Responses of the functional structure of soil microbial community to livestock grazing in the Tibetan alpine grassland

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 637 - 648
• Main Authors: Yang, Yunfeng, Wu, Linwei, Lin, Qiaoyan, Yuan, Mengting, Xu, Depeng, Yu, Hao, Hu, Yigang, Duan, Jichuang, Li, Xiangzhen, He, Zhili, Xue, Kai, van Nostrand, Joy, Wang, Shiping, Zhou, Jizhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2013; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Anthropogenic factors; Antibiotics; Biological and medical sciences; Climate change; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; gene diversity; General aspects; Global warming; Grasslands; Grazing; Land use; Livestock; Livestock - physiology; microbial community; Microbial ecology; Microbiology; Mineralization; Nitrification; Poaceae; Soil Microbiology; Soil structure; Soils; summer grazing; Tibet; Tibetan alpine grassland; Various environments (extraatmospheric space, air, water); Vegetation; Tibet; China, People's Rep., Xizang; Dynamical climatology; Grassland; Climate change; Soil fauna; summer grazing; gene diversity; Livestock; Genetic diversity; Alpine grasslands; Microbial community; Tibetan alpine grassland

Microbes play key roles in various biogeochemical processes, including carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. However, changes of microbial community at the functional gene level by livestock grazing, which is a global land‐use activity, remain unclear. Here we use a functional gene array, GeoChip 4.0...