
Agronomy, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(4), С. 977 - 977
Опубликована: Апрель 17, 2025
Decreasing precipitation frequency (DPF) has the potential to alter soil microbial community structure, enzyme activity, and stoichiometry of biomass in grassland ecosystems. Grasslands have undergone degradation, often driven by anthropogenic activities such as overgrazing, which further intensifies their sensitivity environmental changes altered precipitation. Changes communities can turn impact organic carbon pool (SOCP) its stability, particularly degraded grasslands shaped agricultural practices. Here, we evaluated how DPF affects different types pools, biomass, activity exoenzymes related nutrient acquisition three steppe representing a degradation gradient (from light moderate severe degradation). We also developed systematic model linking stoichiometry, SOCP stability. Our results showed that significantly reduced total (STCP), SOCP, dissolved (DOCP) all grasslands, while it increased DOCP/SOCP ratio with indicating lower stability SOCP. Decreased but had opposite effect on degradation. Additionally, promoting effects fungi/bacteria β-1,4-xylosidase diminished increasing The ratio, carbon/nitrogen were identified main predictors for In lightly moderately decreased water content (SWC) moisture variation induced promoted decreasing ratio. under highlights challenges posed climate change regarding sequestration these fragile stress importance targeted management agriculture livestock management, could be achieved altering For example, fertilization increases availability, enhances growth, shifts C/N/P ratios, allocation over respiration thus enhancing retention.
Язык: Английский