Characterization of changes in soil pH, nutrient content, and enzyme activities in different microhabitats. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01

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Locations of sampling sites (A); moss under shrubs (B); moss in exposed...

Characterization of changes in soil pH, nutrient content, and enzyme...

Characterization of SMF changes under the influence of shrubs and...

Characterization of the shrub effect along a climatic gradient. *p <...

The use of hierarchical partitioning to analyze the extent to which...

Climate and shrubs at different scales jointly drive the changing pattern of moss crust soil multifunctionality in a temperate desert

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May 2025

Qing Zhang
Shujun Zhang
Yunjie Huang
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Yuanming Zhang

Background and aims In desert ecosystems, moss crusts, along with shrubs, often form mosaic spatial patterns. However, it is unclear how microhabitats formed by shrubs and the regional climate will affect soil multifunctionality (i.e., the capacity of soils to conduct multiple functions such as carbon sequestration and nutrient conversion; SMF) and...