Soil water content drives the spatiotemporal the distribution and community assembly of soil ciliates in the Nianchu River Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

• Shiying Zhu,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Plateau Zoology Laboratory, School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

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• Qian Huang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Plateau Zoology Laboratory, School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

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• Tianshun Li,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Plateau Zoology Laboratory, School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

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• Mingyan Li,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Plateau Zoology Laboratory, School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

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• Qing Yang,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Wetland and Watershed Ecosystems of Tibetan Plateau, School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, Lhasa, China, Center for Carbon Neutrality in the Third Pole of the Earth, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

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• Xiaodong Li,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Wetland and Watershed Ecosystems of Tibetan Plateau, School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, Lhasa, China, Center for Carbon Neutrality in the Third Pole of the Earth, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

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• Alan Warren,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Bu Pu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: purbu@utibet.edu.cn

  Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Plateau Zoology Laboratory, School of Ecology and Environment, Tibet University, Lhasa, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-6344-494X

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