Divergent nutrient strategies mediate plant diversity responses to key functional group loss in desert steppes

All raw and processed data generated from the three-year field experiment, including plant–soil stoichiometric characteristics, soil carbon storage, and biomass data under LG, LL, LGL, and CK treatments, are deposited in the public repository. The released data fully support the conclusions about how functional group removal disrupts plant–soil coupling and exacerbates soil carbon loss in desert grasslands and are freely available for academic reuse.

本三年野外实验所产生的原始及经处理数据，涵盖LG、LL、LGL与CK四种实验处理下的植物-土壤化学计量特征、土壤碳储量及生物量数据，均已上传至公共数据存储库。本公开数据集可充分支撑关于功能群移除如何破坏荒漠草原植物-土壤耦合关系并加剧土壤碳流失的相关研究结论，且面向学术研究免费开放复用。