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Title: Elevated carbon dioxide accelerates the spatial turnover of soil microbial communities

Abstract

Abstract Although elevated CO 2 ( eCO 2 ) significantly affects the α ‐diversity, composition, function, interaction and dynamics of soil microbial communities at the local scale, little is known about eCO 2 impacts on the geographic distribution of micro‐organisms regionally or globally. Here, we examined the β ‐diversity of 110 soil microbial communities across six free air CO 2 enrichment ( FACE ) experimental sites using a high‐throughput functional gene array. The β ‐diversity of soil microbial communities was significantly ( P  < 0.05) correlated with geographic distance under both CO 2 conditions, but declined significantly ( P  < 0.05) faster at eCO 2 with a slope of −0.0250 than at ambient CO 2 ( aCO 2 ) with a slope of −0.0231 although it varied within each individual site, indicating that the spatial turnover rate of soil microbial communities was accelerated under eCO 2 at a larger geographic scale (e.g. regionally). Both distance and soil properties significantly ( P  < 0.05) contributed to the observed microbial β ‐diversity. This study provides new hypotheses for further understanding their assembly mechanisms that may be especially important as global CO 2 continues to increase.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [9];  [10];  [11];  [2]
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
  2. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
  3. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States); Ningbo Univ. Ningbo (China)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin (China); Liaoning Technical Univ., Fuxin (China)
  5. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States); Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou (China)
  6. The Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (United States)
  7. The Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (United States); Univ. of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW (Australia)
  8. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  9. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
  10. Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie WY (United States)
  11. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1327647
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1401159
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Global Change Biology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 22; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; elevated carbon dioxide; free air CO2 enrichment; microbial community; spatial turnover rate; β-diversity

Citation Formats

Deng, Ye, He, Zhili, Xiong, Jinbo, Yu, Hao, Xu, Meiying, Hobbie, Sarah E., Reich, Peter B., Schadt, Christopher W., Kent, Angela, Pendall, Elise, Wallenstein, Matthew, and Zhou, Jizhong. Elevated carbon dioxide accelerates the spatial turnover of soil microbial communities. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1111/gcb.13098.
Deng, Ye, He, Zhili, Xiong, Jinbo, Yu, Hao, Xu, Meiying, Hobbie, Sarah E., Reich, Peter B., Schadt, Christopher W., Kent, Angela, Pendall, Elise, Wallenstein, Matthew, & Zhou, Jizhong. Elevated carbon dioxide accelerates the spatial turnover of soil microbial communities. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13098
Deng, Ye, He, Zhili, Xiong, Jinbo, Yu, Hao, Xu, Meiying, Hobbie, Sarah E., Reich, Peter B., Schadt, Christopher W., Kent, Angela, Pendall, Elise, Wallenstein, Matthew, and Zhou, Jizhong. Fri . "Elevated carbon dioxide accelerates the spatial turnover of soil microbial communities". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13098. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1327647.
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title = {Elevated carbon dioxide accelerates the spatial turnover of soil microbial communities},
author = {Deng, Ye and He, Zhili and Xiong, Jinbo and Yu, Hao and Xu, Meiying and Hobbie, Sarah E. and Reich, Peter B. and Schadt, Christopher W. and Kent, Angela and Pendall, Elise and Wallenstein, Matthew and Zhou, Jizhong},
abstractNote = {Abstract Although elevated CO 2 ( eCO 2 ) significantly affects the α ‐diversity, composition, function, interaction and dynamics of soil microbial communities at the local scale, little is known about eCO 2 impacts on the geographic distribution of micro‐organisms regionally or globally. Here, we examined the β ‐diversity of 110 soil microbial communities across six free air CO 2 enrichment ( FACE ) experimental sites using a high‐throughput functional gene array. The β ‐diversity of soil microbial communities was significantly ( P  < 0.05) correlated with geographic distance under both CO 2 conditions, but declined significantly ( P  < 0.05) faster at eCO 2 with a slope of −0.0250 than at ambient CO 2 ( aCO 2 ) with a slope of −0.0231 although it varied within each individual site, indicating that the spatial turnover rate of soil microbial communities was accelerated under eCO 2 at a larger geographic scale (e.g. regionally). Both distance and soil properties significantly ( P  < 0.05) contributed to the observed microbial β ‐diversity. This study provides new hypotheses for further understanding their assembly mechanisms that may be especially important as global CO 2 continues to increase.},
doi = {10.1111/gcb.13098},
journal = {Global Change Biology},
number = 2,
volume = 22,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}

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