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ArticleNature communications2025

Core microbes regulate plant-soil resilience by maintaining network resilience during long-term restoration of alpine grasslands.

Yao Du, Yan Yang, Shengnan Wu, Xiaoxia Gao, Xiaoqing He, Shikui Dong

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

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Yao Du *School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
Yan Yang *College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
Shengnan Wu *School of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
Xiaoxia Gao *School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China.
Xiaoqing HeState Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China. lenahe@bjfu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9098-9980
Shikui DongSchool of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China. dongshikui@bjfu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6984-9999

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Abstract

The alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), the world's highest plateau, have been severely degraded. To address this degradation, human-involved restoration efforts, including grassland cultivation, have been implemented. However, the impact of these practices on soil microbial community stability and its relationship with plant-soil system resilience has not been explored. In this study, we evaluate the effects of grassland restoration on microbial communities. We show that bacteria demonstrate higher composition resistance and resilience during the restoration process, when compared to fungi. The changes we observe in microbial community interactions support the stress gradient hypothesis. Our results emphasize the synergistic role of network resilience and the restoration of the plant-soil system. Importantly, we find that core microbial species significantly influence the resilience of the plant-soil system by sustaining the co-occurrence networks. These insights underscore the critical roles of microbial communities in grassland restoration and suggest new strategies for boosting grassland resilience by safeguarding core microbes.

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GrasslandMicrobiotaPlantsSoil MicrobiologyBacteriaEcosystemFungiPoaceaeSoilTibetSoil

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