Increasing aridity will drive a shift in desert vegetation and interspace gap (microsite) structure toward gap expansion. To evaluate the impact of gap expansion, we assess microsite effects on soil nutrients, microbiome community composition and functional capacity, and the potential of gap soils to serve as microbial reservoirs for plant root-associated microbiomes in an arid ecosystem.
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