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Salinity Is a Key Determinant for Soil Microbial Communities in a Desert Ecosystem.
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- Harnessing haloarchaea from halophyte Atriplex nummularia rhizosphere to enhance salt stress tolerance in maize seedlings.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Salinization influences the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship more strongly at high salinity.mLife · 2025Article
- Salinity Effects on Aquatic and Host Intestinal Microbiota Dynamics inAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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Abstract
Soil salinization is a growing environmental problem caused by both natural and human activities. Excessive salinity in soil suppresses growth, decreases species diversity, and alters the community composition of plants; however, the effect of salinity on soil microbial communities is poorly understood. Here, we characterize the soil microbial community along a natural salinity gradient in Gurbantunggut Desert, Northwestern China. Microbial diversity linearly decreased with increases in salinity, and community dissimilarity significantly increased with salinity differences. Soil salinity showed a strong effect on microbial community dissimilarity, even after controlling for the effects of spatial distance and other environmental variables. Microbial phylotypes (
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