Simulated manipulation experiments, such as nitrogen addition to mimic atmospheric nitrogen deposition, are widely used in global change research. However, experimental manipulations may differ from real‐world environmental change in their intensity, duration, and co‐occurrence, leaving long‐term changes in soil microbial communities and soil health insufficiently understood. To address this gap, we resampled soils from 38 for...

Under global change, terrestrial plants adjust their physiological metabolism alongside adaptive restructuring of rhizosphere microbial communities, yet the mechanistic links between plant phenotypic plasticity and microbial consortia remain unclear. Here, we conducted a meta‐analysis of 272 global‐change experimental comparisons and found that, among all global change factors examined, nitrogen addition exerted the strongest...