Abstract:Shrubs are used for revegetation of degraded dryland ecosystem worldwide and could recruit large numbers of microbes from the soil; however, the plant-associated microbiome assembly and the effect of plant introduction on the soil microbiomes are not fully understood. We detected shrub-associated microbes from five ecological microhabitats, including the leaves, litter, roots, rhizosphere, and root zone, across four xeric shrub plantations (Artemisia ordosica, Caragana korshinskii, Hedysarum mongolicum, and Sa… Show more
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