Soil Acidification Destabilizes Terrestrial Ecosystems via Decoupling Soil Microbiome

Soil microbiome is essential for terrestrial ecosystem preservation. β-diversity information on the former, although dynamic due to its sensitivity to environmental conditions driven by climate change, is limited. Our knowledge becomes poorer for microbiomes subjected to environmental gradients, especially for those across multiple ecosystems-information important for biological conservation management. In this study, using next generation sequencing and machine learning at samples from 207 locations among 4300 km of transects that spanned among six typical terrestrial ecosystems of China, we established the divergent distance-decay relationships between bacterial and eukaryotic communities in response to soil…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Award: 31971466
• YI
  Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

  Award: 2023449
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2017YFA0604803