Shrub encroachment alters microbial community composition and soil carbon and nitrogen cycling functional genes in northern peatlands.

Microbiol Spectr · 2025 · PMC12502596 · PMID 40862625

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The denitrification gene narI showed no differences between the shrub invasion and non-invasion treatments, whereas the abundance of narG genes showed a decreasing trend in the invasion expansion stage.

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