文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Chen, Hao ¹ ; Lin, Liwen ¹ ; Shi, Quan ³ ; Wu, Jianshuang ⁴ ; Wang, Fei ² ; Ji, Mukan ² ; Lin, Qimei ⁷ ; Zhang, Xianzhou ⁵ ; Zhu, Yong-Guan ⁸ ; Liang, Chao ⁹ ; Kong, Weidong ² ;

作者机构： 1.Sun Yat Sen Univ, Sch Agr & Biotechnol, State Key Lab Biocontrol, Guangdong Prov Key Lab Plant Stress Biol, Shenzhen Campus, Shenzhen 518107, Guangdong, Peoples R China

2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Tibetan Plateau Res, State Key Lab Tibetan Plateau Earth Syst Resources, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China

3.China Univ Petr, State Key Lab Heavy Oil Proc, Beijing 102249, Peoples R China

4.Chinese Acad Agr Sci, Inst Environm & Sustainable Dev Agr, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China

5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Ecosyst Network Observat & Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China

6.Shanxi Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Taiyuan 030092, Peoples R China

7.China Agr Univ, Coll Land Sci & Technol, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China

8.Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China

9.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China

10.Capital Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, 105 West Third Ring Rd North, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China

11.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China

关键词： Grazing; Soil water-extractable organic matter; Degradability; Organic matter decomposition; Carbon loss; Grassland soil

期刊名称：CATENA （ 影响因子：5.7； 五年影响因子：6.3 ）

ISSN： 0341-8162

年卷期： 2025 年 259 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The decrease in soil organic matter (SOM) induced by grazing may be primarily due to reduced plant litter inputs. However, the grazing effects on SOM molecular compositions that control its decomposition by microbes are not well understood. Herein we investigated the molecular composition of soil water-extractable organic matter (WEOM, representing the soluble part of SOM), and the associated microbial metabolisms in grassland soils on the Tibetan Plateau. The paired fields (i.e., grazed versus non-grazed) had been established for ten years at eight sites, covering ecologically fragile grasslands on the plateau. The results demonstrated that grazing substantially changed the soil WEOM compositions by enhancing the number and relative abundance of labile C molecules, including lipids and proteins. Subsequently, grazing increased WEOM degradability index by 26.3 % (0.48 vs. 0.38), and enhanced predicted microbial metabolisms degrading labile compounds (i.e., lipid, amino acid, and carbohydrate). Consistently, grazing increased microbial biomass C (MBC) (1.3 folds higher, 298.4 vs. 232.3 mg kg- 1) (all P < 0.001), and its proportion to the SOC pool (1.5 folds higher, 0.020 vs. 0.013), indicating that grazing strengthened the microbial pathway of SOM transformation processes. These observed increases of soil WEOM degradability and microbial decomposing capacity coincided with the grazing-induced reduction of SOM by 25.9 % (P < 0.001), and the effects were positively correlated with the grazing intensity across grassland types. We conclude that grazing can accelerate soil C loss by enhancing WEOM degradability and directly facilitating the metabolism of soil microbes degrading labile organic compounds. This study provides a novel insight into the soil C cycling under human disturbances in fragile grasslands.