Shrub encroachment reshapes microbial resource acquisition strategies by altering plant–soil stoichiometric relationships in an alpine meadow

Here is a simple English paragraph summarizing the key descriptive statistics of your data:Based on 18 plots from an alpine meadow-shrubland ecotone, the topsoil is near-neutral to slightly alkaline (pH 6.85–7.43) with relatively high available phosphorus (mean 24.4 mg/kg) and dissolved organic carbon (mean 664.8 mg/kg). Microbial biomass is moderate, but enzyme activities show extreme outliers, especially for LAP and phosphatase (up to 7619 and 8372, respectively, possibly due to units or measurement errors).

Shrub cover ranges from 0.17 to 0.73. Among herbaceous functional groups, grass biomass ranges 3.6–39.4 g/m², sedge 1.8–38.5 g/m², and forb 17.2–220.5 g/m²; their carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus contents are generally within typical ranges for alpine meadows. The data overall are reasonable except for a few high enzyme and available phosphorus values that should be rechecked.