Rhizosphere soil Raw sequence reads
Afforestation with some alpine plants in high-altitude regions enhances mountain ecosystem protection, carbon sequestration, landscape restoration, and local community income in the context of global climate change. However, the establishment of alpine plants, a dominant subalpine tree species, is often constrained during the seedling stage by slow root development, low nutrient availability, and unstable rhizosphere microbial communities. Indigenous macrofungi forming ecological associations with mature alpine plants play important functional roles in litter decomposition, soil organic matter mineralization, and mycorrhizal symbiosis. In this study, potted alpine plant seedlings were inoculated with indigenous macrofungi representing different nutritional types. Rhizosphere soil properties, microbial communities, and co-occurrence networks, and predicted functional profiles were assessed after 60 days.