Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil
Abstract
Abstract Empirical evidence for the response of soil carbon cycling to the combined effects of warming, drought and diversity loss is scarce. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) plays a central role in regulating the flow of carbon through soil, yet how biotic and abiotic factors interact to drive it remains unclear. Here, we combine distinct community inocula (a biotic factor) with different temperature and moisture conditions (abiotic factors) to manipulate microbial diversity and community structure within a model soil. While community composition and diversity are the strongest predictors of CUE, abiotic factors modulated the relationship between diversity and CUE, with CUE being positively correlated with bacterial diversity only under high moisture. Altogether these results indicate that the diversity × ecosystem-function relationship can be impaired under non-favorable conditions in soils, and that to understand changes in soil C cycling we need to account for the multiple facets of global changes.
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- Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
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- OSTI ID: 1803059
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 11 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United Kingdom
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- English
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- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Science & Technology - Other Topics
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Domeignoz-Horta, Luiz A., Pold, Grace, Liu, Xiao-Jun Allen, Frey, Serita D., Melillo, Jerry M., and DeAngelis, Kristen M. Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17502-z.
Domeignoz-Horta, Luiz A., Pold, Grace, Liu, Xiao-Jun Allen, Frey, Serita D., Melillo, Jerry M., & DeAngelis, Kristen M. Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17502-z
Domeignoz-Horta, Luiz A., Pold, Grace, Liu, Xiao-Jun Allen, Frey, Serita D., Melillo, Jerry M., and DeAngelis, Kristen M. Thu .
"Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17502-z.
@article{osti_1642319,
title = {Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil},
author = {Domeignoz-Horta, Luiz A. and Pold, Grace and Liu, Xiao-Jun Allen and Frey, Serita D. and Melillo, Jerry M. and DeAngelis, Kristen M.},
abstractNote = {Abstract Empirical evidence for the response of soil carbon cycling to the combined effects of warming, drought and diversity loss is scarce. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) plays a central role in regulating the flow of carbon through soil, yet how biotic and abiotic factors interact to drive it remains unclear. Here, we combine distinct community inocula (a biotic factor) with different temperature and moisture conditions (abiotic factors) to manipulate microbial diversity and community structure within a model soil. While community composition and diversity are the strongest predictors of CUE, abiotic factors modulated the relationship between diversity and CUE, with CUE being positively correlated with bacterial diversity only under high moisture. Altogether these results indicate that the diversity × ecosystem-function relationship can be impaired under non-favorable conditions in soils, and that to understand changes in soil C cycling we need to account for the multiple facets of global changes.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-17502-z},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 11,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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