Nitrogen fertilization outweighs plant species loss in shaping bacterial belowground diversity in an alpine meadow on the central Tibetan Plateau
Dongmei Wu, Ci‐ren Qu‐zong, Zhongjun Jia, Antje Schwalb, Georg Guggenberger, Shiping Wang, Tsechoe Dorji, Michael Pester
The paper shows that nitrogen fertilization has a stronger negative impact on bacterial soil diversity than plant species loss in Tibetan grasslands.
FEMS Microbiology Ecology · Sep 18, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology