Soil C/N ratio governs bacterial community assembly along an arid mountain elevational gradient.

An increasing trend in species diversity with elevation, as observed in this study, is relatively uncommon ( McCain and Grytnes, 2010 ).

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For instance, the dominant phylum, Proteobacteria , showed a decreasing trend, while Actinobacteria displayed a unimodal pattern and Acidobacteriota increased ( Supplementary Figure S3 ).

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