soil microorganism

11.5 KB of data from a study on alpine meadows at the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The dataset, authored by Ding Yu and last updated in May 2026, examines the effects of four grazing gradients—prohibition, mild, moderate, and severe—on soil microbial co-occurrence networks, soil properties, and vegetation.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of grazing intensity on soil microbial network complexity and stability based on node and edge metrics.
• Analyzing correlations between soil properties (moisture, pH, nutrients) and microbial alpha diversity under grazing pressure.
• Comparing the differential responses of bacterial and fungal communities to grazing gradients using community composition data.
• Assessing soil multifunctionality decline linked to grazing-induced changes in microbial network robustness and vulnerability.

Strengths

• Data includes four distinct grazing treatment gradients, enabling comparative analysis.
• Measures multiple soil properties (moisture, organic carbon, nitrogen, pH, phosphorus) and microbial network metrics (nodes, edges, clustering coefficient, modularity).
• Explicitly compares bacterial and fungal community responses, providing a dual-domain perspective.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's 11.5 KB size suggests a very limited scope, likely containing summary or processed results rather than raw observational data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Field study with experimental grazing gradients.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-11 14:21:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Alpine meadows on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.