🔄 After grazing exclusion, #SoilOrganicCarbon (SOC) and #TotalNitrogen (TN) quickly recovered with their storage peaking at different exclusion durations. Differences in SOC and TN storage were primarily driven by #Roottraits at the community-level.

#Community_weightedMean | #EcologicalRestoration | #SoilFunctions | #SongnenGrassland

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf131

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Plant community #RootTraits outweigh target species in mediating soil carbon and nitrogen storage across grazing-exclusion chronosequences in semi-arid grasslands

#Community_weightedMean | #EcologicalRestoration | #SongnenGrassland | #SoilFunctions

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf131