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  • This study examines how reseeding and fertilization affect rhizospheric bacterial communities in degraded grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using high-throughput sequencing technology.
  • Results show that fertilization alone reduced bacterial diversity, while the combination of reseeding and fertilization most significantly altered community structure, favoring certain bacterial phyla like Actinomycetota and Pseudomonadota.
  • Key environmental factors, including nitrogen and phosphorus levels, were found to influence bacterial community composition, offering insights for better management practices in restoring high-altitude grasslands.

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Reseeding and fertilization are common ecological restoration measures in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Region for degraded grasslands, yet their impacts on rhizospheric bacterial communities remain unclear. This study utilized high-throughput sequencing technology to systematically investigate the characteristics of rhizospheric soil bacterial communities in degraded high-altitude grasslands managed with reseeding and fertilization. The results indicated a significant decrease in the Shannon and Simpson indices with fertilization treatment, while the reseeding + fertilization treatment exhibited the most pronounced impact on community structure. Actinomycetota, Pseudomonadota, and Acidobacteriota were the dominant phyla in the rhizosphere bacterial community. There was a decrease in network complexity and an increase in stability within bacterial communities with the reseeding, fertilization, and fertilization + reseeding treatments. The networks were predominantly characterized by positive correlations after fertilization, reseeding, and fertilization + reseeding treatments, involving key species like Pseudomonadota, Actinomycetota, and Acidobacteriota. Mantel tests revealed that soil total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), available potassium (AK), and nitrate nitrogen (NO-N) were the key environmental factors in driving bacterial community composition. The study of the rhizosphere soil bacterial community in alpine degraded grassland can provide a theoretical basis for tailored management strategies in the restoration of degraded high-altitude grasslands and lays a scientific foundation for their conservation.

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