Shift in soil microbial communities along ~160 years of natural vegetation restoration on the Loess Plateau of China

Agriculture & Biology

• ecological restoration 100%
• loess 97%
• phospholipid fatty acids 96%
• microbial communities 73%
• plateaus 69%
• China 49%
• soil 38%
• soil surface layers 37%
• climax forests 29%
• soil depth 18%
• biomass 15%
• vegetation gradient 13%
• microbial biomass 9%
• shrublands 9%
• soil nutrients 8%
• Actinobacteria 8%
• agricultural land 8%
• soil pH 8%
• herbs 7%
• soil water 7%
• weeds 6%
• ecosystems 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• phospholipid 74%
• loess 72%
• microbial community 64%
• fatty acid 62%
• restoration 58%
• plateau 57%
• vegetation 46%
• soil layer 36%
• soil 32%
• climax 18%
• biomass 18%
• soil depth 15%
• shrubland 8%
• weed 8%
• soil nutrient 8%
• herb 8%
• litter 7%
• soil moisture 6%
• agricultural land 6%
• substrate 5%
• ecosystem 4%
• analysis 2%
• effect 1%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Soil 83%
• Microbiota 76%
• China 62%
• Phospholipids 39%
• Fatty Acids 37%
• Biomass 23%
• Forests 17%
• Actinobacteria 6%
• Farms 5%
• Ecosystem 5%
• Nutrients 4%