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Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems
Nature communications, Vol.10(1), 1107
2019
PMCID: PMC6405921
PMID: 30846683
Abstract
Soil biota accounts for similar to 25% of global biodiversity and is vital to nutrient cycling and primary production. There is growing momentum to study total belowground biodiversity across large ecological scales to understand how habitat and soil properties shape belowground communities. Microbial and animal components of belowground communities follow divergent responses to soil properties and land use intensification; however, it is unclear whether this extends across heterogeneous ecosystems. Here, a national-scale metabarcoding analysis of 436 locations across 7 different temperate ecosystems shows that belowground animal and microbial (bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists) richness follow divergent trends, whereas beta-diversity does not. Animal richness is governed by intensive land use and unaffected by soil properties, while microbial richness was driven by environmental properties across land uses. Our findings demonstrate that established divergent patterns of belowground microbial and animal diversity are consistent across heterogeneous land uses and are detectable using a standardised metabarcoding approach.
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- Title
- Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems
- Authors/Creators
- Paul B. L. George - Bangor UniversityDelphine Lallias - AgroParisTechSimon Creer - Bangor UniversityFiona M. Seaton - Bangor UniversityJohn G. Kenny - University of LiverpoolRichard M. Eccles - University of LiverpoolRobert Griffiths - UK Centre for Ecology & HydrologyInma Lebron - UK Centre for Ecology & HydrologyBridget A. Emmett - UK Centre for Ecology & HydrologyDavid A. Robinson - UK Centre for Ecology & HydrologyDavey L. Jones - Bangor University
- Publication Details
- Nature communications, Vol.10(1), 1107
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- NEC04782 / UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through the RC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH Project) Soils Training and Research Studentship (STARS) grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) NE/M009106/1 / NERC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) NBAF010002 / NERC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Supercomputing Wales C147/2010/11 / Glastir Monitoring & Evaluation Programme
- Identifiers
- 991005560422107891
- Copyright
- © Crown 2019
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Sustainable Farming Systems
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- Collaboration types
- Domestic collaboration
- International collaboration
- Citation topics
- 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology
- 3.45 Soil Science
- 3.45.112 Soil Carbon Dynamics
- Web Of Science research areas
- Microbiology
- ESI research areas
- Environment/Ecology