The Influence Mechanism of Vegetation Type on the Characteristics of nirS-Type Denitrifying Microbial Communities in Qinghai Lake Wetlands.

Soil denitrification is an important process in the emission of NO, an atmospheric greenhouse gas. Environmental factors of different vegetation types are largely heterogeneous, which may directly or indirectly affect NO fluxes. Through high-throughput sequencing of the nitrite reductase gene nirS, this study investigated the influence of vegetation type on the structure and diversity of denitrifying microbial communities in Qinghai Lake wetlands, China.