Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils
- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment; Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Earth Sciences Division; DOE/OSTI
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). CAS Key Lab. for Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States). Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Santa Fe Inst. (SFI), Santa Fe, NM (United States)
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). EEB Graduate Program, Dept. of Biology
- Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). EEB Graduate Program, Dept. of Biology; Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Balboa (Republic of Panama)
- Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Biology
- Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment
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 knowledge, this is the first study demonstrating that the diversity of different microbial groups has significantly lower rates of turnover across temperature gradients than other major taxa, which has important implications for assessing the effects of human-caused changes in climate, land use and other factors.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); NSF; National Natural Science Foundation of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1623840
- Journal Information:
- Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 7; ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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