Response of soil fungal communities and their co-occurrence patterns to grazing exclusion in different grassland types

Overgrazing and climate change are the main causes of grassland degradation, and grazing exclusion is one of the most common measures for restoring degraded grasslands worldwide. Soil fungi can respond rapidly to environmental stresses, but the response of different grassland types to grazing control has not been uniformly determined. Three grassland types (temperate desert, temperate steppe grassland, and mountain meadow) that were closed for grazing exclusion for nine years were used to study the effects of grazing exclusion on soil nutrients as well as fungal community structure in the three grassland types. The results showed that (1) in the 0–5 cm soil layer, grazing exclusion significantly affected the soil water content of the three grassland types (P<0.05), and the pH, total phosphorous (TP) and nitrogen-to-phosphorous ratio (N/P) changed significantly in all three grassland types (P<0.05). Significant changes in soil nutrients in the 5–10 cm soil layer after grazing exclu..., , , # Response of soil fungal communities and their co-occurrence patterns to grazing exclusion in different grassland types

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Contains cover data for Table 2.  Columns are described below:

\"Soil layer\"=Soil samples from the soil layer(0_5=0-5 cm, 5_10=5-10 cm)

\"Grassland type\"=Different grassland types where TD=temperate desert grassland, TS=temperate steppe grassland, MM=mountain meadow grassland

\"Enclosure treatment\"=Different experimental treatments where GE=grazing exclusion, FG=Freely grazing

\"EC\"=electric conductivity units: ms/m

\"BD\"= bulk density  units: g/cm-3

\"SM\"=soil moisture units:%

\"SOC\"= soil organic carbon units:g/kg

\"TN\"=total nitrogen units:g/kg

\"TP\"=total phosphorus units:g/kg

\"C:N\" carbon:nitrogen

\"C:P\"carbon:phosphorus

\"N:P\"nitrogen:phosphorus

Contains cover data for figure 2.  Columns are described below:

\"Soil layer\"=Soil samples from the soil layer(0_5=0-5 cm, 5_10=5-10 ...