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Environmental Factors Regulate Soil Microbial Attributes and Their Response to Drought in Rangeland Ecosystems by Santiago Toledo; Viviana F. Bondaruk; Laura Yahdjian; Gastón R. Oñatibia; Alejandro Loydi; Juan Alberti; Martín Bruschetti; Jesús Pascual; Guadalupe Peter; Walter D. Agüero; Pedro R. Namur; Lisandro Blanco; Pablo L. Peri is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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In ecosystems, soil microbial variables characterization are used to determine soil biological health and the response of soils to environmental stress. Although there are strong associations between plants and soil microorganisms, they may respond asynchronously to environmental factors and severe droughts. We aimed to: I) evaluate the special variation of soil microbiome such as microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and nitrogen (MBN), soil basal respiration (SBR) and microbial indexes in eight rangeland sites located across an aridity gradient (distributed from arid to mesic climates); II) analyze the relative importance of main environmental factors (climate, soils, and plants) and their relationships with microbial variables in the rangelands; and III) assess the effect of drought on microbial and plant variables in field-based manipulative experiments. First, we found significant changes of microbial variables along a precipitation and temperature gradient. The responses of MBC and MBN were strongly dependent on soil pH, soil nitrogen (N), soil organic carbon (SOC), C:N ratio and vegetation cover. In contrast, SBR was influenced by the aridity index (AI), the mean annual precipitati
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- Author
- Santiago Toledo; Viviana F. Bondaruk; Laura Yahdjian; Gastón R. Oñatibia; Alejandro Loydi; Juan Alberti; Martín Bruschetti; Jesús Pascual; Guadalupe Peter; Walter D. Agüero; Pedro R. Namur; Lisandro Blanco; Pablo L. Peri
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)