Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control · +7 more institutions
Abstract
Climate warming is increasingly leading to marked changes in plant and animal biodiversity, but it remains unclear how temperatures affect microbial biodiversity, particularly in terrestrial soils. Here we show that, in accordance with metabolic theory of ecology, taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of soil bacteria, fungi and nitrogen fixers are all better predicted by variation in environmental temperature than pH. However, the rates of diversity turnover across the global temperature gradients are substantially lower than those recorded for trees and animals, suggesting that the diversity of plant, animal and soil microbial communities show differential responses to climate change. To the best of our…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 48.60
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 64
Authors
20- JZJizhong ZhouCorresponding
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, University of Oklahoma, Tsinghua University
- YDYe Deng
Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma
- LSLina Shen
University of Oklahoma
- CWChongqing Wen
University of Oklahoma
- QYQingyun Yan
University of Oklahoma
Topics & keywords
- Biodiversity
- Ecology
- Phylogenetic diversity
- Climate change
- Soil water
- Biology
- Beta diversity
- Global warming
Funding
- NSNational Science FoundationAwards: 1065844, EF-1065844
- UOUniversity of Oklahoma
- NNNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaAwards: 31540071, 41430856
- CAChinese Academy of SciencesAward: XDB15010302
- TUTsinghua University
- CICollaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality
- DODivision of Emerging FrontiersAward: 1065844