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2. Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands

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Díaz-Martínez, Paloma, Maestre, Fernando T., Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Eldridge, David J., Saiz, Hugo, Gross, Nicolas, Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Gozalo, Beatriz, Ochoa, Victoria, Guirado, Emilio, García-Gómez, Miguel, Valencia, Enrique, Asensio, Sergio, Berdugo, Miguel, Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Mendoza, Betty J., García-Gil, Juan C., Zaccone, Claudio, Panettieri, Marco, García-Palacios, Pablo, Fan, Wei, Benavente-Ferraces, Iria, Rey, Ana, Eisenhauer, Nico, Cesarz, Simone, Abedi, Mehdi, Ahumada, Rodrigo J., Alcántara, Julio M., Amghar, Fateh, Aramayo, Valeria, Arroyo, Antonio I., Bahalkeh, Khadijeh, Ben Salem, Farah, Blaum, Niels, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Bowker, Matthew A., Bran, Donaldo, Branquinho, Cristina, Bu, Chongfeng, Cáceres, Yonatan, Canessa, Rafaella, Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P., Castro, Ignacio, Castro-Quezada, Patricio, Chibani, Roukaya, Conceição, Abel A., Currier, Courtney M., Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony, Deák, Balázs, Dickman, Christopher R., Donoso, David A., Dougill, Andrew J., Durán, Jorge, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Espinosa, Carlos, Fajardo, Alex, Farzam, Mohammad, Ferrante, Daniela, Fraser, Lauchlan H., Gaitán, Juan J., Gusman Montalván, Elizabeth, Hernández-Hernández, Rosa M., von Hessberg, Andreas, Hölzel, Norbert, Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth, Hughes, Frederic M., Jadán-Maza, Oswaldo, Geissler, Katja, Jentsch, Anke, Ju, Mengchen, Kaseke, Kudzai F., Kindermann, Liana, Koopman, Jessica E., Le Roux, Peter C., Liancourt, Pierre, Linstädter, Anja, Liu, Jushan, Louw, Michelle A., Maggs-Kölling, Gillian, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Issa, Oumarou Malam, Marais, Eugene, Margerie, Pierre, Mazaneda, Antonio J., McClaran, Mitchel P., Messeder, João Vitor S., Mora, Juan P., Moreno, Gerardo, Munson, Seth M., Nunes, Alice, Oliva, Gabriel, Oñatibia, Gastón R., Osborne, Brooke, Peter, Guadalupe, Pueyo, Yolanda, Quiroga, R. Emiliano, Reed, Sasha C., Reyes, Victor M., Rodríguez, Alexandra, Ruppert, Jan C., Sala, Osvaldo, Salah, Ayman, Sebei, Julius, Sloan, Michael, Solongo, Shijirbaatar, Stavi, Ilan, Stephens, Colton R. A., Teixido, Alberto L., Thomas, Andrew D., Throop, Heather L., Tielbörger, Katja, Travers, Samantha, Val, James, Valko, Orsolya, van den Brink, Liesbeth, Velbert, Frederike, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Wang, Deli, Wang, Lixin, Wardle, Glenda M., Yahdjian, Laura, Zaady, Eli, Zeberio, Juan M., Zhang, Yuanming, Zhou, Xiaobing, and Plaza, César

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2024
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3. Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world

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Gross, Nicolas, Maestre, Fernando T., Liancourt, Pierre, Berdugo, Miguel, Martin, Raphaël, Gozalo, Beatriz, Ochoa, Victoria, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Maire, Vincent, Saiz, Hugo, Soliveres, Santiago, Valencia, Enrique, Eldridge, David J., Guirado, Emilio, Jabot, Franck, Asensio, Sergio, Gaitán, Juan J., García-Gómez, Miguel, Martínez, Paloma, Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Mendoza, Betty J., Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo, Pescador, David S., Plaza, César, Pijuan, Ivan Santaolaria, Abedi, Mehdi, Ahumada, Rodrigo J., Amghar, Fateh, Arroyo, Antonio I., Bahalkeh, Khadijeh, Bailey, Lydia, Ben Salem, Farah, Blaum, Niels, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Bowker, Matthew A., Branquinho, Cristina, van den Brink, Liesbeth, Bu, Chongfeng, Canessa, Rafaella, Castillo-Monroy, Andrea del P., Castro, Helena, Castro, Patricio, Chibani, Roukaya, Conceição, Abel Augusto, Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony, Davila, Yvonne C., Deák, Balázs, Donoso, David A., Durán, Jorge, Espinosa, Carlos, Fajardo, Alex, Farzam, Mohammad, Ferrante, Daniela, Franzese, Jorgelina, Fraser, Lauchlan, Gonzalez, Sofía, Gusman-Montalvan, Elizabeth, Hernández-Hernández, Rosa Mary, Hölzel, Norbert, Huber-Sannwald, Elisabeth, Jadan, Oswaldo, Jeltsch, Florian, Jentsch, Anke, Ju, Mengchen, Kaseke, Kudzai F., Kindermann, Liana, le Roux, Peter, Linstädter, Anja, Louw, Michelle A., Mabaso, Mancha, Maggs-Kölling, Gillian, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Issa, Oumarou Malam, Manzaneda, Antonio J., Marais, Eugene, Margerie, Pierre, Hughes, Frederic Mendes, Messeder, João Vitor S., Mora, Juan P., Moreno, Gerardo, Munson, Seth M., Nunes, Alice, Oliva, Gabriel, Oñatibia, Gaston R., Peter, Guadalupe, Pueyo, Yolanda, Quiroga, R. Emiliano, Ramírez-Iglesias, Elizabeth, Reed, Sasha C., Rey, Pedro J., Reyes Gómez, Víctor M., Rodríguez, Alexandra, Rolo, Victor, Rubalcaba, Juan G., Ruppert, Jan C., Sala, Osvaldo, Salah, Ayman, Sebei, Phokgedi Julius, Stavi, Ilan, Stephens, Colton, Teixido, Alberto L., Thomas, Andrew D., Throop, Heather L., Tielbörger, Katja, Travers, Samantha, Undrakhbold, Sainbileg, Val, James, Valkó, Orsolya, Velbert, Frederike, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Wang, Lixin, Wang, Deli, Wardle, Glenda M., Wolff, Peter, Yahdjian, Laura, Yari, Reza, Zaady, Eli, Zeberio, Juan Manuel, Zhang, Yuanling, Zhou, Xiaobing, and Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann

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2024
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4. Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

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Eldridge, David J., Ding, Jingyi, Dorrough, Josh, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Sala, Osvaldo, Gross, Nicolas, Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Mallen-Cooper, Max, Saiz, Hugo, Asensio, Sergio, Ochoa, Victoria, Gozalo, Beatriz, Guirado, Emilio, García-Gómez, Miguel, Valencia, Enrique, Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Plaza, César, Abedi, Mehdi, Ahmadian, Negar, Ahumada, Rodrigo J., Alcántara, Julio M., Amghar, Fateh, Azevedo, Luísa, Ben Salem, Farah, Berdugo, Miguel, Blaum, Niels, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Bowker, Matthew, Bran, Donaldo, Bu, Chongfeng, Canessa, Rafaella, Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P., Castro, Ignacio, Castro-Quezada, Patricio, Cesarz, Simone, Chibani, Roukaya, Conceição, Abel Augusto, Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony, Davila, Yvonne C., Deák, Balázs, Díaz-Martínez, Paloma, Donoso, David A., Dougill, Andrew David, Durán, Jorge, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Espinosa, Carlos Ivan, Fajardo, Alex, Farzam, Mohammad, Foronda, Ana, Franzese, Jorgelina, Fraser, Lauchlan H., Gaitán, Juan, Geissler, Katja, Gonzalez, Sofía Laura, Gusman-Montalvan, Elizabeth, Hernández, Rosa Mary, Hölzel, Norbert, Hughes, Frederic Mendes, Jadan, Oswaldo, Jentsch, Anke, Ju, Mengchen, Kaseke, Kudzai F., Köbel, Melanie, Lehmann, Anika, Liancourt, Pierre, Linstädter, Anja, Louw, Michelle A., Ma, Quanhui, Mabaso, Mancha, Maggs-Kölling, Gillian, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Issa, Oumarou Malam, Marais, Eugene, McClaran, Mitchel, Mendoza, Betty, Mokoka, Vincent, Mora, Juan P., Moreno, Gerardo, Munson, Seth, Nunes, Alice, Oliva, Gabriel, Oñatibia, Gastón R., Osborne, Brooke, Peter, Guadalupe, Pierre, Margerie, Pueyo, Yolanda, Emiliano Quiroga, R., Reed, Sasha, Rey, Ana, Rey, Pedro, Gómez, Víctor Manuel Reyes, Rolo, Víctor, Rillig, Matthias C., le Roux, Peter C., Ruppert, Jan Christian, Salah, Ayman, Sebei, Phokgedi Julius, Sharkhuu, Anarmaa, Stavi, Ilan, Stephens, Colton, Teixido, Alberto L., Thomas, Andrew David, Tielbörger, Katja, Robles, Silvia Torres, Travers, Samantha, Valkó, Orsolya, van den Brink, Liesbeth, Velbert, Frederike, von Heßberg, Andreas, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Wang, Deli, Wang, Lixin, Wardle, Glenda M., Yahdjian, Laura, Zaady, Eli, Zhang, Yuanming, Zhou, Xiaobing, and Maestre, Fernando T.

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2024
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6. Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services

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Eldridge, David J., Cui, Haiying, Ding, Jingyi, Berdugo, Miguel, Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo, Duran, Jorge, Gaitan, Juan, Blanco-Pastor, José L., Rodríguez, Alexandra, Plaza, César, Alfaro, Fernando, Teixido, Alberto L., Abades, Sebastian, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Grebenc, Tine, Nahberger, Tine U., Illán, Javier G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Rey, Ana, Siebe, Christina, Sun, Wei, Trivedi, Pankaj, Verma, Jay Prakash, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Wang, Tianxue, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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2024
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9. Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

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Eldridge, David J., Ding, Jingyi, Dorrough, Josh, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Sala, Osvaldo, Gross, Nicolas, Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Mallen-Cooper, Max, Saiz, Hugo, Asensio, Sergio, Ochoa, Victoria, Gozalo, Beatriz, Guirado, Emilio, García-Gómez, Miguel, Valencia, Enrique, Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Plaza, César, Abedi, Mehdi, Ahmadian, Negar, Ahumada, Rodrigo J., Alcántara, Julio M., Amghar, Fateh, Azevedo, Luísa, Ben Salem, Farah, Berdugo, Miguel, Blaum, Niels, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Bowker, Matthew, Bran, Donaldo, Bu, Chongfeng, Canessa, Rafaella, Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P., Castro, Ignacio, Castro-Quezada, Patricio, Cesarz, Simone, Chibani, Roukaya, Conceição, Abel Augusto, Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony, Davila, Yvonne C., Deák, Balázs, Díaz-Martínez, Paloma, Donoso, David A., Dougill, Andrew David, Durán, Jorge, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Espinosa, Carlos Ivan, Fajardo, Alex, Farzam, Mohammad, Foronda, Ana, Franzese, Jorgelina, Fraser, Lauchlan H., Gaitán, Juan, Geissler, Katja, Gonzalez, Sofía Laura, Gusman-Montalvan, Elizabeth, Hernández, Rosa Mary, Hölzel, Norbert, Hughes, Frederic Mendes, Jadan, Oswaldo, Jentsch, Anke, Ju, Mengchen, Kaseke, Kudzai F., Köbel, Melanie, Lehmann, Anika, Liancourt, Pierre, Linstädter, Anja, Louw, Michelle A., Ma, Quanhui, Mabaso, Mancha, Maggs-Kölling, Gillian, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Issa, Oumarou Malam, Marais, Eugene, McClaran, Mitchel, Mendoza, Betty, Mokoka, Vincent, Mora, Juan P., Moreno, Gerardo, Munson, Seth, Nunes, Alice, Oliva, Gabriel, Oñatibia, Gastón R., Osborne, Brooke, Peter, Guadalupe, Pierre, Margerie, Pueyo, Yolanda, Emiliano Quiroga, R., Reed, Sasha, Rey, Ana, Rey, Pedro, Gómez, Víctor Manuel Reyes, Rolo, Víctor, Rillig, Matthias C., le Roux, Peter C., Ruppert, Jan Christian, Salah, Ayman, Sebei, Phokgedi Julius, Sharkhuu, Anarmaa, Stavi, Ilan, Stephens, Colton, Teixido, Alberto L., Thomas, Andrew David, Tielbörger, Katja, Robles, Silvia Torres, Travers, Samantha, Valkó, Orsolya, van den Brink, Liesbeth, Velbert, Frederike, von Heßberg, Andreas, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Wang, Deli, Wang, Lixin, Wardle, Glenda M., Yahdjian, Laura, Zaady, Eli, Zhang, Yuanming, Zhou, Xiaobing, and Maestre, Fernando T.

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2024
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12. Publisher Correction: Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide

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Liu, Yu-Rong, van der Heijden, Marcel G. A., Riedo, Judith, Sanz-Lazaro, Carlos, Eldridge, David J., Bastida, Felipe, Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Moreno, José L., Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Berdugo, Miguel, Blanco-Pastor, José L., de los Ríos, Asunción, Duran, Jorge, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier G., Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Teixido, Alberto L., Casado-Coy, Nuria, Trivedi, Pankaj, Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Verma, Jay Prakash, Mukherjee, Arpan, Zeng, Xiao-Min, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Huang, Qiaoyun, Tan, Wenfeng, Zhu, Yong-Guan, Rillig, Matthias C., and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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2023
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13. Soil contamination in nearby natural areas mirrors that in urban greenspaces worldwide

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Liu, Yu-Rong, van der Heijden, Marcel G. A., Riedo, Judith, Sanz-Lazaro, Carlos, Eldridge, David J., Bastida, Felipe, Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Moreno, José L., Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Berdugo, Miguel, Blanco-Pastor, José L., de los Ríos, Asunción, Duran, Jorge, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier G., Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Teixido, Alberto L., Casado-Coy, Nuria, Trivedi, Pankaj, Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Verma, Jay Prakash, Mukherjee, Arpan, Zeng, Xiao-Min, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Huang, Qiaoyun, Tan, Wenfeng, Zhu, Yong-Guan, Rillig, Matthias C., and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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2023
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14. The global contribution of soil mosses to ecosystem services

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Eldridge, David J., Guirado, Emilio, Reich, Peter B., Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl, Berdugo, Miguel, Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo, Blanco-Pastor, José L., Tedersoo, Leho, Plaza, César, Ding, Jingyi, Sun, Wei, Mamet, Steven, Cui, Haiying, He, Ji-Zheng, Hu, Hang-Wei, Sokoya, Blessing, Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, Felipe, de los Ríos, Asunción, Durán, Jorge, Gaitan, Juan J., Guerra, Carlos A., Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mallen-Cooper, Max, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Moreno, José L., Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Picó, Sergio, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Teixido, Alberto L., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Trivedi, Pankaj, Wang, Juntao, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Yang, Tianxue, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Zhou, Guiyao, Liu, Shengen, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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2023
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15. Biogenic factors explain soil carbon in paired urban and natural ecosystems worldwide

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, García-Palacios, Pablo, Bradford, Mark A., Eldridge, David J., Berdugo, Miguel, Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo, Liu, Yu-Rong, Alfaro, Fernando, Abades, Sebastian, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, Felipe, Blanco-Pastor, José L., Duran, Jorge, Gaitan, Juan J., Illán, Javier G., Grebenc, Tine, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Jaiswal, Durgesh Kumar, Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Teixido, Alberto L., Sun, Wei, Trivedi, Pankaj, Verma, Jay Prakash, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Yang, Tianxue, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, and Plaza, César

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2023
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18. Agricultural Soil Degradation in Australia

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Dadzie, Frederick A., Egidi, Eleonora, Stewart, Jana, Eldridge, David J., Molesworth, Anika, Singh, Brajesh K., Muñoz-Rojas, Miriam, Pereira, Paulo, editor, Muñoz-Rojas, Miriam, editor, Bogunovic, Igor, editor, and Zhao, Wenwu, editor

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2023
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19. Soil biodiversity supports the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions in urban greenspaces

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Fan, Kunkun, Chu, Haiyan, Eldridge, David J., Gaitan, Juan J., Liu, Yu-Rong, Sokoya, Blessing, Wang, Jun-Tao, Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Sun, Wei, Cui, Haiying, Alfaro, Fernando D., Abades, Sebastian, Bastida, Felipe, Díaz-López, Marta, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Berdugo, Miguel, Blanco-Pastor, José L., Grebenc, Tine, Duran, Jorge, Illán, Javier G., Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mukherjee, Arpan, Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Verma, Jay Prakash, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Teixido, Alberto L., Trivedi, Pankaj, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Yang, Tianxue, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zaady, Eli, Tedersoo, Leho, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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2023
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21. Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

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Valencia, Enrique, de Bello, Francesco, Galland, Thomas, Adler, Peter B, Lepš, Jan, E-Vojtkó, Anna, van Klink, Roel, Carmona, Carlos P, Danihelka, Jiří, Dengler, Jürgen, Eldridge, David J, Estiarte, Marc, García-González, Ricardo, Garnier, Eric, Gómez‐García, Daniel, Harrison, Susan P, Herben, Tomáš, Ibáñez, Ricardo, Jentsch, Anke, Juergens, Norbert, Kertész, Miklós, Klumpp, Katja, Louault, Frédérique, Marrs, Rob H, Ogaya, Romà, Ónodi, Gábor, Pakeman, Robin J, Pardo, Iker, Pärtel, Meelis, Peco, Begoña, Peñuelas, Josep, Pywell, Richard F, Rueda, Marta, Schmidt, Wolfgang, Schmiedel, Ute, Schuetz, Martin, Skálová, Hana, Šmilauer, Petr, Šmilauerová, Marie, Smit, Christian, Song, MingHua, Stock, Martin, Val, James, Vandvik, Vigdis, Ward, David, Wesche, Karsten, Wiser, Susan K, Woodcock, Ben A, Young, Truman P, Yu, Fei-Hai, Zobel, Martin, and Götzenberger, Lars

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Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, Ecological Applications, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Life Below Water, Life on Land, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Ecosystem, Plant Development, Plants, Soil, evenness, climate change drivers, species richness, stability, synchrony
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The stability of ecological communities is critical for the stable provisioning of ecosystem services, such as food and forage production, carbon sequestration, and soil fertility. Greater biodiversity is expected to enhance stability across years by decreasing synchrony among species, but the drivers of stability in nature remain poorly resolved. Our analysis of time series from 79 datasets across the world showed that stability was associated more strongly with the degree of synchrony among dominant species than with species richness. The relatively weak influence of species richness is consistent with theory predicting that the effect of richness on stability weakens when synchrony is higher than expected under random fluctuations, which was the case in most communities. Land management, nutrient addition, and climate change treatments had relatively weak and varying effects on stability, modifying how species richness, synchrony, and stability interact. Our results demonstrate the prevalence of biotic drivers on ecosystem stability, with the potential for environmental drivers to alter the intricate relationship among richness, synchrony, and stability.

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2020

22. The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes.

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B, Bardgett, Richard D, Eldridge, David J, Lambers, Hans, Wardle, David A, Reed, Sasha C, Plaza, César, Png, G Kenny, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Hart, Stephen C, Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D, Cutler, Nick A, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E, Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Pérez, Cecilia A, Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sullivan, Benjamin W, Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A, and Fierer, Noah

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Bacteria, Fungi, Plants, Soil, Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Biomass, Climate, Time Factors, Biota, Microbiota
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The importance of soil age as an ecosystem driver across biomes remains largely unresolved. By combining a cross-biome global field survey, including data for 32 soil, plant, and microbial properties in 16 soil chronosequences, with a global meta-analysis, we show that soil age is a significant ecosystem driver, but only accounts for a relatively small proportion of the cross-biome variation in multiple ecosystem properties. Parent material, climate, vegetation and topography predict, collectively, 24 times more variation in ecosystem properties than soil age alone. Soil age is an important local-scale ecosystem driver; however, environmental context, rather than soil age, determines the rates and trajectories of ecosystem development in structure and function across biomes. Our work provides insights into the natural history of terrestrial ecosystems. We propose that, regardless of soil age, changes in the environmental context, such as those associated with global climatic and land-use changes, will have important long-term impacts on the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems across biomes.

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2020

23. Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes.

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Reich, Peter B, Trivedi, Chanda, Eldridge, David J, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D, Bastida, Felipe, Berhe, Asmeret A, Cutler, Nick A, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hart, Stephen C, Hayes, Patrick E, He, Ji-Zheng, Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Hu, Hang-Wei, Kirchmair, Martin, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Pérez, Cecilia A, Reed, Sasha C, Santos, Fernanda, Sullivan, Benjamin W, Trivedi, Pankaj, Wang, Jun-Tao, Weber-Grullon, Luis, Williams, Mark A, and Singh, Brajesh K

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Humans, Fungi, Soil, Soil Microbiology, Ecosystem, Biodiversity
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The role of soil biodiversity in regulating multiple ecosystem functions is poorly understood, limiting our ability to predict how soil biodiversity loss might affect human wellbeing and ecosystem sustainability. Here, combining a global observational study with an experimental microcosm study, we provide evidence that soil biodiversity (bacteria, fungi, protists and invertebrates) is significantly and positively associated with multiple ecosystem functions. These functions include nutrient cycling, decomposition, plant production, and reduced potential for pathogenicity and belowground biological warfare. Our findings also reveal the context dependency of such relationships and the importance of the connectedness, biodiversity and nature of the globally distributed dominant phylotypes within the soil network in maintaining multiple functions. Moreover, our results suggest that the positive association between plant diversity and multifunctionality across biomes is indirectly driven by soil biodiversity. Together, our results provide insights into the importance of soil biodiversity for maintaining soil functionality locally and across biomes, as well as providing strong support for the inclusion of soil biodiversity in conservation and management programmes.

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2020

24. Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes

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Bastida, Felipe, Eldridge, David J, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D, Gallardo, Antonio, García‐Velázquez, Laura, García, Carlos, Hart, Stephen C, Pérez, Cecilia A, Santos, Fernanda, Trivedi, Pankaj, Williams, Mark A, and Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel

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Life on Land, Animals, Arachnida, Ecosystem, Forests, Invertebrates, Nematoda, Rotifera, Soil, aridity, biogeography, climate change, diversity, plant diversity, soil invertebrates, Biological Sciences, Evolutionary Biology
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Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally. We conducted a cross-biome survey including 83 locations across six continents to advance our understanding of the ecological preferences and vulnerabilities of the diversity of dominant and functionally important soil invertebrate taxa, including nematodes, arachnids and rotifers. The diversity of invertebrates was analyzed through amplicon sequencing. Vegetation and climate drove the diversity and dominant taxa of soil invertebrates. Our results suggest that declines in forest cover and plant diversity, and reductions in plant production associated with increases in aridity, can result in reductions of the diversity of soil invertebrates in a drier and more managed world. We further developed global atlases of the diversity of these important soil invertebrates, which were cross-validated using an independent database. Our study advances the current knowledge of the ecological preferences and vulnerabilities of the diversity and presence of functionally important soil invertebrates in soils from across the globe. This information is fundamental for improving and prioritizing conservation efforts of soil genetic resources and management policies.

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2020

25. Global hotspots for soil nature conservation

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Guerra, Carlos A., Berdugo, Miguel, Eldridge, David J., Eisenhauer, Nico, Singh, Brajesh K., Cui, Haiying, Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando D., Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, Felipe, Blanco-Pastor, José L., de los Ríos, Asunción, Durán, Jorge, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mamet, Steven, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Moreno, José L., Mukherjee, Arpan, Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Picó, Sergio, Verma, Jay Prakash, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Tedersoo, Leho, Teixido, Alberto L., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Trivedi, Pankaj, Wang, Juntao, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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2022
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26. Plant footprint decreases the functional diversity of molecules in topsoil organic matter after millions of years of ecosystem development

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European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Junta de Andalucía, Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo [0000-0001-9539-4716], Gallardo, Antonio [0000-0002-2674-4265], Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw [0000-0002-6986-7943], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo, Gallardo, Antonio, Eldridge, David J., Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Doetterl, Sebastian, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, European Commission, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Junta de Andalucía, Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo [0000-0001-9539-4716], Gallardo, Antonio [0000-0002-2674-4265], Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw [0000-0002-6986-7943], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo, Gallardo, Antonio, Eldridge, David J., Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw, Doetterl, Sebastian, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

Abstract

Aim Theory suggests that the diversity of molecules in soil organic matter (SOM functional diversity) provides key insights on multiple ecosystem services. We aimed to investigate how and why SOM functional diversity and composition change as topsoils develop, and its implications for key soil functions (e.g., from nutrient pool to water regulation). Location We reported data on 16 soil chronosequences globally distributed in nine countries from six continents. Time Period 2016–2017. Major Taxa Studied Soil microbes (bacteria and fungi) and vascular plants. Methods SOM functional diversity and composition without mineral interference were measured using diffuse reflectance mid-infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFT). We aimed to characterize the main environmental factors related to SOM functional diversity and composition. Also, we calculated the links among SOM functional diversity and key soil functions. Results We found that SOM functional diversity declines after millions of years of soil formation (pedogenesis). We further showed that increases in plant cover and productivity led to a higher ratio of reduced (e.g., alkanes) over oxidized carbon forms (i.e., C: O-functional groups ratio), which was positively correlated to SOM functional diversity as soils age. Our findings indicated that the plant footprint (i.e., the accumulation of plant-derived material promoting the C: O-functional group ratio) would explain the reduction of SOM functional diversity as ecosystems develop. Moreover, the dissimilarity in SOM composition consistently increased with soil age, with the soil development stage emerging as the main predictor of SOM dissimilarity across contrasting biomes. Main Conclusions Our global survey contextualized the natural history of SOM functional diversity and composition during long-term soil development. Together, we showed how plant footprint drives the losses of SOM functional diversity with increasing age, which might provide a novel mecha

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2024

27. Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem services

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Fundación BBVA, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Hermon Slade Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Association for Science and Technology, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (Chile), National Research Foundation (South Africa), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Programa de Investimento e Despesas de Desenvolvimento da Administração Central (Portugal), Slovenian Research Agency, Banaras Hindu University, Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Cui, Haiying [0000-0003-4993-2231], Ding, Jingyi [0000-0002-4120-6318], Berdugo, Miguel [0000-0003-1053-8907], Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo [0000-0001-9539-4716], Durán, Jorge [0000-0002-7375-5290], Gaitán, Juan J. [0000-0003-2889-1418], Blanco-Pastor, José Luis [0000-0002-7708-1342], Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra [0000-0001-5849-8778], Plaza de Carlos, César [0000-0001-8616-7001], Alfaro, Fernando D. [0000-0003-2922-1838], Teixido, Alberto L. [0000-0001-8009-1237], Abades, Sebastián [0000-0001-5704-4037], Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F. [0000-0001-7085-9521], Grebenc, Tine [0000-0003-4035-8587], Nahberger, Tina U. [0000-0001-9808-1643], Liu, Yu-Rong [0000-0003-1112-4255], Makhalanyane, Thulani P. [0000-0002-8173-1678], Rey, Ana [0000-0003-0394-101X], Siebe, Christina [0000-0002-2636-6778], Sun, Wei [0000-0002-1601-2159], Trivedi, Pankaj [0000-0003-0173-2804], Verma, Jay Prakash [0000-0002-2643-9623], Wang, Jianyong [0000-0002-9863-0056], Zaady, Eli [0000-0002-3304-534X], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Eldridge, David J., Cui, Haiying, Ding, Jingyi, Berdugo, Miguel, Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo, Durán, Jorge, Gaitán, Juan J., Blanco-Pastor, José Luis, Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra, Plaza de Carlos, César, Alfaro, Fernando D, Teixido, Alberto L., Abades, Sebastián, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Grebenc, Tine, Nahberger, Tina U., Illán, Javier, G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Rey, Ana, Siebe, Christina, Sun, Wei, Trivedi, Pankaj, Verma, Jay Prakash, Wang, Jianyong, Wang, Tianxue, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Fundación BBVA, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Hermon Slade Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Association for Science and Technology, Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (Chile), National Research Foundation (South Africa), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Programa de Investimento e Despesas de Desenvolvimento da Administração Central (Portugal), Slovenian Research Agency, Banaras Hindu University, Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Cui, Haiying [0000-0003-4993-2231], Ding, Jingyi [0000-0002-4120-6318], Berdugo, Miguel [0000-0003-1053-8907], Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo [0000-0001-9539-4716], Durán, Jorge [0000-0002-7375-5290], Gaitán, Juan J. [0000-0003-2889-1418], Blanco-Pastor, José Luis [0000-0002-7708-1342], Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra [0000-0001-5849-8778], Plaza de Carlos, César [0000-0001-8616-7001], Alfaro, Fernando D. [0000-0003-2922-1838], Teixido, Alberto L. [0000-0001-8009-1237], Abades, Sebastián [0000-0001-5704-4037], Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F. [0000-0001-7085-9521], Grebenc, Tine [0000-0003-4035-8587], Nahberger, Tina U. [0000-0001-9808-1643], Liu, Yu-Rong [0000-0003-1112-4255], Makhalanyane, Thulani P. [0000-0002-8173-1678], Rey, Ana [0000-0003-0394-101X], Siebe, Christina [0000-0002-2636-6778], Sun, Wei [0000-0002-1601-2159], Trivedi, Pankaj [0000-0003-0173-2804], Verma, Jay Prakash [0000-0002-2643-9623], Wang, Jianyong [0000-0002-9863-0056], Zaady, Eli [0000-0002-3304-534X], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Eldridge, David J., Cui, Haiying, Ding, Jingyi, Berdugo, Miguel, Sáez-Sandino, Tadeo, Durán, Jorge, Gaitán, Juan J., Blanco-Pastor, José Luis, Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra, Plaza de Carlos, César, Alfaro, Fernando D, Teixido, Alberto L., Abades, Sebastián, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Grebenc, Tine, Nahberger, Tina U., Illán, Javier, G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Rey, Ana, Siebe, Christina, Sun, Wei, Trivedi, Pankaj, Verma, Jay Prakash, Wang, Jianyong, Wang, Tianxue, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

Abstract

Greenspaces are important for sustaining healthy urban environments and their human populations. Yet their capacity to support multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (multiservices) compared with nearby natural ecosystems remains virtually unknown. We conducted a global field survey in 56 urban areas to investigate the influence of urban greenspaces on 23 soil and plant attributes and compared them with nearby natural environments. We show that, in general, urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil multiservices, with only six of 23 attributes (available phosphorus, water holding capacity, water respiration, plant cover, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and arachnid richness) significantly greater in greenspaces, and one (available ammonium) greater in natural areas. Further analyses showed that, although natural areas and urban greenspaces delivered a similar number of services at low (>25% threshold) and moderate (>50%) levels of functioning, natural systems supported significantly more functions at high (>75%) levels of functioning. Management practices (mowing) played an important role in explaining urban ecosystem services, but there were no effects of fertilisation or irrigation. Some services declined with increasing site size, for both greenspaces and natural areas. Our work highlights the fact that urban greenspaces are more similar to natural environments than previously reported and underscores the importance of managing urban greenspaces not only for their social and recreational values, but for supporting multiple ecosystem services on which soils and human well-being depends.

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2024

28. Geologically younger ecosystems are more dependent on soil biodiversity for supporting function

Author

National Key Research and Development Program (China), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (China), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Feng, Jiao [0000-0003-2879-3498], Liu, Yurong [0000-0003-1112-4255], Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Huang, Qiaoyun [0000-0002-2733-8066], Tan, Wenfeng [0000-0002-3098-2928], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Feng, Jiao, Liu, Yurong, Eldridge, David J., Huang, Qiaoyun, Tan, Wenfeng, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, National Key Research and Development Program (China), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (China), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Feng, Jiao [0000-0003-2879-3498], Liu, Yurong [0000-0003-1112-4255], Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Huang, Qiaoyun [0000-0002-2733-8066], Tan, Wenfeng [0000-0002-3098-2928], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Feng, Jiao, Liu, Yurong, Eldridge, David J., Huang, Qiaoyun, Tan, Wenfeng, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

Abstract

Soil biodiversity contains the metabolic toolbox supporting organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling in the soil. However, as soil develops over millions of years, the buildup of plant cover, soil carbon and microbial biomass may relax the dependence of soil functions on soil biodiversity. To test this hypothesis, we evaluate the within-site soil biodiversity and function relationships across 87 globally distributed ecosystems ranging in soil age from centuries to millennia. We found that within-site soil biodiversity and function relationship is negatively correlated with soil age, suggesting a stronger dependence of ecosystem functioning on soil biodiversity in geologically younger than older ecosystems. We further show that increases in plant cover, soil carbon and microbial biomass as ecosystems develop, particularly in wetter conditions, lessen the critical need of soil biodiversity to sustain function. Our work highlights the importance of soil biodiversity for supporting function in drier and geologically younger ecosystems with low microbial biomass. © The Author(s) 2024.

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2024

29. Unearthing the soil‐borne microbiome of land plants

Author

British Ecological Society, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Slovenian Research Agency, Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl [0000-0002-1839-6926], Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Berdugo, Miguel [0000-0003-1053-8907], Trivedi, Pankaj [0000-0003-0173-2804], Cano-Díaz, Concha [0000-0001-6948-6553], Abades, Sebastián [0000-0001-5704-4037], Alfaro, Fernando D. [0000-0003-2922-1838], Bastida, F. [0000-0001-9958-7099], Blanco-Pastor, José Luis [0000-0002-7708-1342], Ríos, Asunción de los [0000-0002-0266-3516], Durán, Jorge [0000-0002-7375-5290], Geisen, Stefan [0000-0003-0734-727X], Grebenc, Tine [0000-0003-4035-8587], Liu, Yu-Rong [0000-0003-1112-4255], Makhalanyane, Thulani P. [0000-0002-8173-1678], Mamet, Steven [0000-0002-3510-3814, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A. [0000-0001-6801-8942], Moreno-Ortego, Jose Luis [0000-0002-6063-7156], Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F. [0000-0001-7085-9521], Plaza de Carlos, César [0000-0001-8616-7001], Rey, Ana [0000-0003-0394-101X], Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra [0000-0001-5849-8778], Siebe, Christina [0000-0002-2636-6778], Singh, Brajesh K. [0000-0003-4413-4185], Teixido, Alberto L. [0000-0001-8009-1237], Torres-Díaz, Cristian [0000-0002-5741-5288], Wang, Ling [0000-0002-2276-9529], Wang, Jianyong [0000-0002-9863-0056], Wang, Jun-Tao [0000-0002-1822-2176], Zaady, Eli [0000-0002-3304-534X], Tedersoo, Leho [0000-0002-1635-1249], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl, Eldridge, David J., Berdugo, Miguel, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sokoya, Blessing, Cano-Díaz, Concha, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, F., Blanco-Pastor, José Luis, Ríos, Asunción de los, Durán, Jorge, Geisen, Stefan, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier, G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mamet, Steven, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Moreno-Ortego, Jose Luis, Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza de Carlos, César, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Singh, Brajesh K., Teixido, Alberto L., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Wang, Jun-Tao, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Tedersoo, Leho, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, British Ecological Society, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Junta de Andalucía, Slovenian Research Agency, Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl [0000-0002-1839-6926], Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Berdugo, Miguel [0000-0003-1053-8907], Trivedi, Pankaj [0000-0003-0173-2804], Cano-Díaz, Concha [0000-0001-6948-6553], Abades, Sebastián [0000-0001-5704-4037], Alfaro, Fernando D. [0000-0003-2922-1838], Bastida, F. [0000-0001-9958-7099], Blanco-Pastor, José Luis [0000-0002-7708-1342], Ríos, Asunción de los [0000-0002-0266-3516], Durán, Jorge [0000-0002-7375-5290], Geisen, Stefan [0000-0003-0734-727X], Grebenc, Tine [0000-0003-4035-8587], Liu, Yu-Rong [0000-0003-1112-4255], Makhalanyane, Thulani P. [0000-0002-8173-1678], Mamet, Steven [0000-0002-3510-3814, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A. [0000-0001-6801-8942], Moreno-Ortego, Jose Luis [0000-0002-6063-7156], Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F. [0000-0001-7085-9521], Plaza de Carlos, César [0000-0001-8616-7001], Rey, Ana [0000-0003-0394-101X], Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra [0000-0001-5849-8778], Siebe, Christina [0000-0002-2636-6778], Singh, Brajesh K. [0000-0003-4413-4185], Teixido, Alberto L. [0000-0001-8009-1237], Torres-Díaz, Cristian [0000-0002-5741-5288], Wang, Ling [0000-0002-2276-9529], Wang, Jianyong [0000-0002-9863-0056], Wang, Jun-Tao [0000-0002-1822-2176], Zaady, Eli [0000-0002-3304-534X], Tedersoo, Leho [0000-0002-1635-1249], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl, Eldridge, David J., Berdugo, Miguel, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sokoya, Blessing, Cano-Díaz, Concha, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D., Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, F., Blanco-Pastor, José Luis, Ríos, Asunción de los, Durán, Jorge, Geisen, Stefan, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier, G., Liu, Yu-Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mamet, Steven, Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Moreno-Ortego, Jose Luis, Nahberger, Tina U., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza de Carlos, César, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez-Pereiras, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Singh, Brajesh K., Teixido, Alberto L., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Wang, Jun-Tao, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Tedersoo, Leho, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

Abstract

Plant–soil biodiversity interactions are fundamental for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, the existence of a set of globally distributed topsoil microbial and small invertebrate organisms consistently associated with land plants (i.e., their consistent soil-borne microbiome), together with the environmental preferences and functional capabilities of these organisms, remains unknown. We conducted a standardized field survey under 150 species of land plants, including 58 species of bryophytes and 92 of vascular plants, across 124 locations from all continents. We found that, despite the immense biodiversity of soil organisms, the land plants evaluated only shared a small fraction (less than 1%) of all microbial and invertebrate taxa that were present across contrasting climatic and soil conditions and vegetation types. These consistent taxa were dominated by generalist decomposers and phagotrophs and their presence was positively correlated with the abundance of functional genes linked to mineralization. Finally, we showed that crossing environmental thresholds in aridity (aridity index of 0.65, i.e., the transition from mesic to dry ecosystems), soil pH (5.5; i.e., the transition from acidic to strongly acidic soils), and carbon (less than 2%, the lower limit of fertile soils) can result in drastic disruptions in the associations between land plants and soil organisms, with potential implications for the delivery of soil ecosystem processes under ongoing global environmental change.

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2024

30. Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands

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European Commission, Generalitat Valenciana, Hermon Slade Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (China), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), National Science Foundation (US), National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Asia Foundation, Northern Arizona University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Ministerio de Universidades (España), Eldridge, David J. [0000-0002-2191-486X], Ding, Jingyi [0000-0002-4120-6318], Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel [0000-0002-6499-576X], Gross, Nicolas [0000-0001-9730-3240], Mallen-Cooper, Max [0000-0002-8799-8728], Ochoa, Victoria [0000-0002-2055-2094], Gozalo, Beatriz [0000-0003-3082-4695], Guirado, Emilio [0000-0001-5348-7391], García-Gómez, Miguel [0000-0003-3148-1495], Valencia, Enrique [0000-0003-3359-0759], Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime [0000-0001-5859-5674], Plaza de Carlos, César [0000-0001-8616-7001], Abedi, Mehdi [0000-0002-1499-0119], Ahmadian , Negar [0000-0003-1191-3019], Ahumada, Rodrigo J. [0000-0002-7246-4459], Alcántara, Julio M. [0000-0002-8003-7844], Amghar, Fateh [0000-0003-0379-7273], Berdugo, Miguel [0000-0003-1053-8907], Blaum, Niels [0000-0001-6807-5162], Boldgiv, Bazartseren [0000-0003-0015-8142], Browker, Matthew A. [0000-0002-5891-0264], Bran, Donaldo [0000-0001-7749-2726], Bu, Chongfeng [0000-0002-5839-7229], Canessa, Rafaella [0000-0002-6979-9880], Castro, Ignacio [0000-0002-7594-6824], Castro-Quezada, Patricio [0000-0002-2366-2256], Cesarz, Simone [0000-0003-2334-5119], Conceição, Abel A. [0000-0001-7461-0133], Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony [0000-0002-2825-7962], Davila, Yvonne C. [0000-0002-5144-5742], Deák, Balázs [0000-0001-6938-1997], Donoso, David [0000-0002-3408-1457], Dougill, Andrew [0000-0002-3422-8228], Eisenhauer, Nico [0000-0002-0371-6720], Espinosa, Carlos Iván [0000-0002-5330-4505], Fajardo, Alex [0000-0002-2202-6207], Farzam, Mohammad [0000-0003-1947-0187], Fraser, L. H. [0000-0003-3998-5540], Gaitán, Juan J. [0000-0003-2889-1418], Hernández, Rosa M. [0000-0003-0689-8862], Jadán, Oswaldo. [0000-0002-7865-2418], Jentsch, Anke [0000-0002-2345-8300], Kaseke, Kudzai Farai [0000-0002-3856-0711], Köbel, Melanie [0000-0001-8272-7999], Lehmann, Anika [0000-0002-9101-9297], Liancourt, Pierre [0000-0002-3109-8755], Linstädter, Anja [0000-0003-0038-9557], Low, Michelle A. [0000-0002-2148-9752], Maggs Kölling, Gillian [0000-0003-3296-8553], Makhalanyane, Thulani P. [0000-0002-8173-1678], Malam Issa, Oumarou [0000-0001-8357-914X], Marais, Eugene [0000-0001-7155-9942], Mendoza, Betty [0000-0003-1149-7801], Mora, Juan P. [0000-0002-6335-0150], Moreno, Gerardo [0000-0001-8053-2696], Munson, Seth M. [0000-0002-2736-6374], Nunes, Alice [0000-0002-6900-3838], Oliva, Gabriel [0000-0002-7839-8851], Oñatibia, Gastón [0000-0003-2329-6601], Peter, Guadalupe [0000-0002-7792-7045], Pueyo, Yolanda [0000-0001-6970-7790], Quiroga, R Emiliano [0000-0001-9785-451X], Reed, Sasha C. [0000-0002-8597-8619], Rey, Ana [0000-0003-0394-101X], Rey, P.J. [0000-0001-5550-0393], Rolo, Víctor [0000-0001-5854-9512], Rillig, Matthias C. [0000-0003-3541-7853], Le Roux, Peter C. [0000-0002-7941-7444], Salah, Ayman [0000-0003-0596-1292], Stavi, Ilan [0000-0001-9725-0003], Stephens, Colton R. A. [0000-0002-8744-6405], Teixido, Alberto L. [0000-0001-8009-1237], Thomas, Andrew [0000-0002-1360-1687], Travers, Samantha [0000-0002-6252-1667], Valkó, Orsolya [0000-0001-7919-6293], van den Brink, Liesbeth [0000-0003-0313-8147], Velbert, Frederike [0000-0003-0499-3807], von Heßberg, Andreas [0009-0007-0303-3624], Wamiti, Wanyoike [0000-0001-7300-2101], Wang, Deli [0000-0001-6576-9193], Wang, Lixin [0000-0003-0968-1247], Wardle, Glenda M. [0000-0003-0189-1899], Yahdjian, Laura [0000-0002-9635-1221], Zaady, Eli [0000-0002-3304-534X], Yuanming, Zhang [0000-0003-1370-4181], Maestre, Fernando T. [0000-0002-7434-4856], Eldridge, David J., Ding, Jingyi, Dorrough, Josh, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Sala, O., Gross, Nicolas, Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Mallen-Cooper, Max, Sáiz, Hugo, Asensio, Sergio, Ochoa, Victoria, Teixido, Alberto L., Thomas, Andrew, Tielbörger, Katja, Torres Robles, Silvia, Travers, Samantha, Valkó, Orsolya, van den Brink, Liesbeth, Velbert, Frederike, von Heßberg, Andreas, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Gozalo, Beatriz, Wang, Deli, Wang, Lixin, Wardle, Glenda M., Yahdjian, Laura, Zaady, Eli, Yuanming, Zhang, Zhou, Xiaobing, Maestre, Fernando T., Guirado, Emilio, García-Gómez, Miguel, Valencia, Enrique, Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Plaza de Carlos, César, Abedi, Mehdi, Ahmadian , Negar, Ahumada, Rodrigo J., Alcántara, Julio M., Amghar, Fateh, Azevedo, Luísa, Ben Salem, Farah, Berdugo, Miguel, Blaum, Niels, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Browker, Matthew A., Bran, Donaldo, Bu, Chongfeng, Canessa, Rafaella, Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P., Castro, Ignacio, Castro-Quezada, Patricio, Cesarz, Simone, Chibani, Roukaya, Conceição, Abel A., Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony, Davila, Yvonne C., Deák, Balázs, Díaz-Martínez, Paloma, Donoso, David, Dougill, Andrew, Durán, Jorge, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Espinosa, Carlos Iván, Fajardo, Alex, Farzam, Mohammad, Foronda, Ana, Franzese, Jorgelina, Fraser, L. H., Gaitán, Juan J., Geissler, Katja, Gonzalez, Sofía Laura, Gusman-Montalvan, Elizabeth, Hölzel, Norbert, Mendes Hughes, Frederic, Jadán, Oswaldo, Jentsch, Anke, Ju, Mengchen, Kaseke, Kudzai Farai, Köbel, Melanie, Lehmann, Anika, Liancourt, Pierre, Linstädter, Anja, Low, Michelle A., Ma, Quanhui, Mabaso, Mancha, Maggs Kölling, Gillian, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Malam Issa, Oumarou, Marais, Eugene, McClaran, Mitchel, Mendoza, Betty, Mokoka, Vincent, Mora, Juan P., Moreno, Gerardo, Munson, Seth M., Nunes, Alice, Oliva, Gabriel, Oñatibia, Gastón, Osborne, Brooke, Peter, Guadalupe, Pierre, Margerie, Pueyo, Yolanda, Quiroga, R Emiliano, Reed, Sasha C., Rey, Ana, Rey, P.J., Reyes Gómez, Víctor Manuel, Rolo, Víctor, Rillig, Matthias C., Le Roux, Peter C., Ruppert, Jan C., Salah, Ayman, Sebei, Phokgedi Julius, Sharkhuu, Anarmaa, Stavi, Ilan, Stephens, Colton R. A., European Commission, Generalitat Valenciana, Hermon Slade Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (China), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), National Science Foundation (US), National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary), Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany), Asia Foundation, Northern Arizona University, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Ministerio de Universidades (España), Eldridge, David J. 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[0000-0002-7434-4856], Eldridge, David J., Ding, Jingyi, Dorrough, Josh, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Sala, O., Gross, Nicolas, Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann, Mallen-Cooper, Max, Sáiz, Hugo, Asensio, Sergio, Ochoa, Victoria, Teixido, Alberto L., Thomas, Andrew, Tielbörger, Katja, Torres Robles, Silvia, Travers, Samantha, Valkó, Orsolya, van den Brink, Liesbeth, Velbert, Frederike, von Heßberg, Andreas, Wamiti, Wanyoike, Gozalo, Beatriz, Wang, Deli, Wang, Lixin, Wardle, Glenda M., Yahdjian, Laura, Zaady, Eli, Yuanming, Zhang, Zhou, Xiaobing, Maestre, Fernando T., Guirado, Emilio, García-Gómez, Miguel, Valencia, Enrique, Martínez-Valderrama, Jaime, Plaza de Carlos, César, Abedi, Mehdi, Ahmadian , Negar, Ahumada, Rodrigo J., Alcántara, Julio M., Amghar, Fateh, Azevedo, Luísa, Ben Salem, Farah, Berdugo, Miguel, Blaum, Niels, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Browker, Matthew A., Bran, Donaldo, Bu, Chongfeng, Canessa, Rafaella, Castillo-Monroy, Andrea P., Castro, Ignacio, Castro-Quezada, Patricio, Cesarz, Simone, Chibani, Roukaya, Conceição, Abel A., Darrouzet-Nardi, Anthony, Davila, Yvonne C., Deák, Balázs, Díaz-Martínez, Paloma, Donoso, David, Dougill, Andrew, Durán, Jorge, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ejtehadi, Hamid, Espinosa, Carlos Iván, Fajardo, Alex, Farzam, Mohammad, Foronda, Ana, Franzese, Jorgelina, Fraser, L. H., Gaitán, Juan J., Geissler, Katja, Gonzalez, Sofía Laura, Gusman-Montalvan, Elizabeth, Hölzel, Norbert, Mendes Hughes, Frederic, Jadán, Oswaldo, Jentsch, Anke, Ju, Mengchen, Kaseke, Kudzai Farai, Köbel, Melanie, Lehmann, Anika, Liancourt, Pierre, Linstädter, Anja, Low, Michelle A., Ma, Quanhui, Mabaso, Mancha, Maggs Kölling, Gillian, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Malam Issa, Oumarou, Marais, Eugene, McClaran, Mitchel, Mendoza, Betty, Mokoka, Vincent, Mora, Juan P., Moreno, Gerardo, Munson, Seth M., Nunes, Alice, Oliva, Gabriel, Oñatibia, Gastón, Osborne, Brooke, Peter, Guadalupe, Pierre, Margerie, Pueyo, Yolanda, Quiroga, R Emiliano, Reed, Sasha C., Rey, Ana, Rey, P.J., Reyes Gómez, Víctor Manuel, Rolo, Víctor, Rillig, Matthias C., Le Roux, Peter C., Ruppert, Jan C., Salah, Ayman, Sebei, Phokgedi Julius, Sharkhuu, Anarmaa, Stavi, Ilan, and Stephens, Colton R. A.

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Perennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands, beneath their canopies. These hotspots largely determine the structure and functioning of drylands worldwide. Despite their ubiquity, the factors controlling fertile islands under conditions of contrasting grazing by livestock, the most prevalent land use in drylands, remain virtually unknown. Here we evaluated the relative importance of grazing pressure and herbivore type, climate and plant functional traits on 24 soil physical and chemical attributes that represent proxies of key ecosystem services related to decomposition, soil fertility, and soil and water conservation. To do this, we conducted a standardized global survey of 288 plots at 88 sites in 25 countries worldwide. We show that aridity and plant traits are the major factors associated with the magnitude of plant effects on fertile islands in grazed drylands worldwide. Grazing pressure had little influence on the capacity of plants to support fertile islands. Taller and wider shrubs and grasses supported stronger island effects. Stable and functional soils tended to be linked to species-rich sites with taller plants. Together, our findings dispel the notion that grazing pressure or herbivore type are linked to the formation or intensification of fertile islands in drylands. Rather, our study suggests that changes in aridity, and processes that alter island identity and therefore plant traits, will have marked effects on how perennial plants support and maintain the functioning of drylands in a more arid and grazed world.

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2024

31. Unearthing the soil‐borne microbiome of land plants

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Ochoa‐Hueso, Raúl, primary, Eldridge, David J., additional, Berdugo, Miguel, additional, Trivedi, Pankaj, additional, Sokoya, Blessing, additional, Cano‐Díaz, Concha, additional, Abades, Sebastian, additional, Alfaro, Fernando, additional, Bamigboye, Adebola R., additional, Bastida, Felipe, additional, Blanco‐Pastor, José L., additional, de los Rios, Asunción, additional, Durán, Jorge, additional, Geisen, Stefan, additional, Grebenc, Tine, additional, Illán, Javier G., additional, Liu, Yu‐Rong, additional, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., additional, Mamet, Steven, additional, Molina‐Montenegro, Marco A., additional, Moreno, José L., additional, Nahberger, Tina Unuk, additional, Peñaloza‐Bojacá, Gabriel F., additional, Plaza, César, additional, Rey, Ana, additional, Rodríguez, Alexandra, additional, Siebe, Christina, additional, Singh, Brajesh K., additional, Teixido, Alberto L., additional, Torres‐Díaz, Cristian, additional, Wang, Ling, additional, Wang, Jianyong, additional, Wang, Juntao, additional, Zaady, Eli, additional, Zhou, Xiaobing, additional, Zhou, Xin‐Quan, additional, Tedersoo, Leho, additional, and Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, additional

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2024
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32. Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect.

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Bastida, Felipe, García, Carlos, Fierer, Noah, Eldridge, David J, Bowker, Matthew A, Abades, Sebastián, Alfaro, Fernando D, Asefaw Berhe, Asmeret, Cutler, Nick A, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hart, Stephen C, Hayes, Patrick E, Hernández, Teresa, Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Jehmlich, Nico, Kirchmair, Martin, Lambers, Hans, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Peña-Ramírez, Víctor M, Pérez, Cecilia A, Reed, Sasha C, Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Sullivan, Benjamin W, Trivedi, Pankaj, Vera, Alfonso, Williams, Mark A, Luis Moreno, José, and Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

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Identifying the global drivers of soil priming is essential to understanding C cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. We conducted a survey of soils across 86 globally-distributed locations, spanning a wide range of climates, biotic communities, and soil conditions, and evaluated the apparent soil priming effect using 13C-glucose labeling. Here we show that the magnitude of the positive apparent priming effect (increase in CO2 release through accelerated microbial biomass turnover) was negatively associated with SOC content and microbial respiration rates. Our statistical modeling suggests that apparent priming effects tend to be negative in more mesic sites associated with higher SOC contents. In contrast, a single-input of labile C causes positive apparent priming effects in more arid locations with low SOC contents. Our results provide solid evidence that SOC content plays a critical role in regulating apparent priming effects, with important implications for the improvement of C cycling models under global change scenarios.

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2019

33. Changes in belowground biodiversity during ecosystem development

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Bardgett, Richard D, Vitousek, Peter M, Maestre, Fernando T, Williams, Mark A, Eldridge, David J, Lambers, Hans, Neuhauser, Sigrid, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Sala, Osvaldo E, Abades, Sebastián R, Alfaro, Fernando D, Berhe, Asmeret A, Bowker, Matthew A, Currier, Courtney M, Cutler, Nick A, Hart, Stephen C, Hayes, Patrick E, Hseu, Zeng-Yei, Kirchmair, Martin, Peña-Ramírez, Victor M, Pérez, Cecilia A, Reed, Sasha C, Santos, Fernanda, Siebe, Christina, Sullivan, Benjamin W, Weber-Grullon, Luis, and Fierer, Noah

Subjects
Life on Land, Biodiversity, Models, Biological, soil biodiversity, ecosystem development, global scale, acidification, soil chronosequences
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Belowground organisms play critical roles in maintaining multiple ecosystem processes, including plant productivity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. Despite their importance, however, we have a limited understanding of how and why belowground biodiversity (bacteria, fungi, protists, and invertebrates) may change as soils develop over centuries to millennia (pedogenesis). Moreover, it is unclear whether belowground biodiversity changes during pedogenesis are similar to the patterns observed for aboveground plant diversity. Here we evaluated the roles of resource availability, nutrient stoichiometry, and soil abiotic factors in driving belowground biodiversity across 16 soil chronosequences (from centuries to millennia) spanning a wide range of globally distributed ecosystem types. Changes in belowground biodiversity during pedogenesis followed two main patterns. In lower-productivity ecosystems (i.e., drier and colder), increases in belowground biodiversity tracked increases in plant cover. In more productive ecosystems (i.e., wetter and warmer), increased acidification during pedogenesis was associated with declines in belowground biodiversity. Changes in the diversity of bacteria, fungi, protists, and invertebrates with pedogenesis were strongly and positively correlated worldwide, highlighting that belowground biodiversity shares similar ecological drivers as soils and ecosystems develop. In general, temporal changes in aboveground plant diversity and belowground biodiversity were not correlated, challenging the common perception that belowground biodiversity should follow similar patterns to those of plant diversity during ecosystem development. Taken together, our findings provide evidence that ecological patterns in belowground biodiversity are predictable across major globally distributed ecosystem types and suggest that shifts in plant cover and soil acidification during ecosystem development are associated with changes in belowground biodiversity over centuries to millennia.

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2019

34. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

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Koerner, Sally E, Smith, Melinda D, Burkepile, Deron E, Hanan, Niall P, Avolio, Meghan L, Collins, Scott L, Knapp, Alan K, Lemoine, Nathan P, Forrestel, Elisabeth J, Eby, Stephanie, Thompson, Dave I, Aguado-Santacruz, Gerardo A, Anderson, John P, Anderson, T Michael, Angassa, Ayana, Bagchi, Sumanta, Bakker, Elisabeth S, Bastin, Gary, Baur, Lauren E, Beard, Karen H, Beever, Erik A, Bohlen, Patrick J, Boughton, Elizabeth H, Canestro, Don, Cesa, Ariela, Chaneton, Enrique, Cheng, Jimin, D’Antonio, Carla M, Deleglise, Claire, Dembélé, Fadiala, Dorrough, Josh, Eldridge, David J, Fernandez-Going, Barbara, Fernández-Lugo, Silvia, Fraser, Lauchlan H, Freedman, Bill, García-Salgado, Gonzalo, Goheen, Jacob R, Guo, Liang, Husheer, Sean, Karembé, Moussa, Knops, Johannes MH, Kraaij, Tineke, Kulmatiski, Andrew, Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit, Lezama, Felipe, Loucougaray, Gregory, Loydi, Alejandro, Milchunas, Dan G, Milton, Suzanne J, Morgan, John W, Moxham, Claire, Nehring, Kyle C, Olff, Han, Palmer, Todd M, Rebollo, Salvador, Riginos, Corinna, Risch, Anita C, Rueda, Marta, Sankaran, Mahesh, Sasaki, Takehiro, Schoenecker, Kathryn A, Schultz, Nick L, Schütz, Martin, Schwabe, Angelika, Siebert, Frances, Smit, Christian, Stahlheber, Karen A, Storm, Christian, Strong, Dustin J, Su, Jishuai, Tiruvaimozhi, Yadugiri V, Tyler, Claudia, Val, James, Vandegehuchte, Martijn L, Veblen, Kari E, Vermeire, Lance T, Ward, David, Wu, Jianshuang, Young, Truman P, Yu, Qiang, and Zelikova, Tamara Jane

Subjects
Life Below Water, Animals, Biodiversity, Desert Climate, Grassland, Herbivory, Mammals, Plants
Abstract

Herbivores alter plant biodiversity (species richness) in many of the world's ecosystems, but the magnitude and the direction of herbivore effects on biodiversity vary widely within and among ecosystems. One current theory predicts that herbivores enhance plant biodiversity at high productivity but have the opposite effect at low productivity. Yet, empirical support for the importance of site productivity as a mediator of these herbivore impacts is equivocal. Here, we synthesize data from 252 large-herbivore exclusion studies, spanning a 20-fold range in site productivity, to test an alternative hypothesis-that herbivore-induced changes in the competitive environment determine the response of plant biodiversity to herbivory irrespective of productivity. Under this hypothesis, when herbivores reduce the abundance (biomass, cover) of dominant species (for example, because the dominant plant is palatable), additional resources become available to support new species, thereby increasing biodiversity. By contrast, if herbivores promote high dominance by increasing the abundance of herbivory-resistant, unpalatable species, then resource availability for other species decreases reducing biodiversity. We show that herbivore-induced change in dominance, independent of site productivity or precipitation (a proxy for productivity), is the best predictor of herbivore effects on biodiversity in grassland and savannah sites. Given that most herbaceous ecosystems are dominated by one or a few species, altering the competitive environment via herbivores or by other means may be an effective strategy for conserving biodiversity in grasslands and savannahs globally.

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2018

35. The global distribution and environmental drivers of the soil antibiotic resistome

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Hu, Hang-Wei, Maestre, Fernando T., Guerra, Carlos A., Eisenhauer, Nico, Eldridge, David J., Zhu, Yong-Guan, Chen, Qing-Lin, Trivedi, Pankaj, Du, Shuai, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Verma, Jay Prakash, Gozalo, Beatriz, Ochoa, Victoria, Asensio, Sergio, Wang, Ling, Zaady, Eli, Illán, Javier G., Siebe, Christina, Grebenc, Tine, Zhou, Xiaobing, Liu, Yu-Rong, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Blanco-Pastor, José L., Duran, Jorge, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Mamet, Steven, Alfaro, Fernando, Abades, Sebastian, Teixido, Alberto L., Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Perez, Cecilia, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Neuhauser, Sigrid, and He, Ji-Zheng

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2022
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39. Upper boundary on tree cover at global drylands

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Biancari, Lucio, primary, Aguiar, Martín R., additional, Saiz, Hugo, additional, Gross, Nicolas, additional, Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Yoann, additional, Eldridge, David J., additional, and Maestre, Fernando T., additional

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2024
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47. Unearthing the soil‐borne microbiome of land plants

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Ochoa‐Hueso, Raúl, Eldridge, David J., Berdugo, Miguel, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sokoya, Blessing, Cano‐Díaz, Concha, Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, Felipe, Blanco‐Pastor, José L., de los Rios, Asunción, Durán, Jorge, Geisen, Stefan, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier G., Liu, Yu‐Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mamet, Steven, Molina‐Montenegro, Marco A., Moreno, José L., Nahberger, Tina Unuk, Peñaloza‐Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Singh, Brajesh K., Teixido, Alberto L., Torres‐Díaz, Cristian, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Wang, Juntao, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin‐Quan, Tedersoo, Leho, Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Ochoa‐Hueso, Raúl, Eldridge, David J., Berdugo, Miguel, Trivedi, Pankaj, Sokoya, Blessing, Cano‐Díaz, Concha, Abades, Sebastian, Alfaro, Fernando, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Bastida, Felipe, Blanco‐Pastor, José L., de los Rios, Asunción, Durán, Jorge, Geisen, Stefan, Grebenc, Tine, Illán, Javier G., Liu, Yu‐Rong, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Mamet, Steven, Molina‐Montenegro, Marco A., Moreno, José L., Nahberger, Tina Unuk, Peñaloza‐Bojacá, Gabriel F., Plaza, César, Rey, Ana, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Siebe, Christina, Singh, Brajesh K., Teixido, Alberto L., Torres‐Díaz, Cristian, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Wang, Juntao, Zaady, Eli, Zhou, Xiaobing, Zhou, Xin‐Quan, Tedersoo, Leho, and Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel

Abstract

Plant–soil biodiversity interactions are fundamental for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, the existence of a set of globally distributed topsoil microbial and small invertebrate organisms consistently associated with land plants (i.e., their consistent soil-borne microbiome), together with the environmental preferences and functional capabilities of these organisms, remains unknown. We conducted a standardized field survey under 150 species of land plants, including 58 species of bryophytes and 92 of vascular plants, across 124 locations from all continents. We found that, despite the immense biodiversity of soil organisms, the land plants evaluated only shared a small fraction (less than 1%) of all microbial and invertebrate taxa that were present across contrasting climatic and soil conditions and vegetation types. These consistent taxa were dominated by generalist decomposers and phagotrophs and their presence was positively correlated with the abundance of functional genes linked to mineralization. Finally, we showed that crossing environmental thresholds in aridity (aridity index of 0.65, i.e., the transition from mesic to dry ecosystems), soil pH (5.5; i.e., the transition from acidic to strongly acidic soils), and carbon (less than 2%, the lower limit of fertile soils) can result in drastic disruptions in the associations between land plants and soil organisms, with potential implications for the delivery of soil ecosystem processes under ongoing global environmental change.

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2024

48. Global homogenization of the structure and function in the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Eldridge, David J., Liu, Yu-Rong, Sokoya, Blessing, Wang, Jun-Tao, Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Moreno, José L., Bamigboye, Adebola R., Blanco-Pastor, José L., Cano-Díaz, Concha, Illán, Javier G., Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Zaady, Eli, Verma, Jay Prakash, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Grebenc, Tine, Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Nahberger, Tina U., López Teixido, Alberto, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Berdugo, Miguel, Duran, Jorge, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Zhou, Xiaobing, Alfaro, Fernando, Abades, Sebastian, Plaza, César, Rey Muñoz, Ana Isabel, Singh, Brajesh K., Tedersoo, Leho, Fierer, Noah, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Eldridge, David J., Liu, Yu-Rong, Sokoya, Blessing, Wang, Jun-Tao, Hu, Hang-Wei, He, Ji-Zheng, Bastida, Felipe, Moreno, José L., Bamigboye, Adebola R., Blanco-Pastor, José L., Cano-Díaz, Concha, Illán, Javier G., Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Siebe, Christina, Trivedi, Pankaj, Zaady, Eli, Verma, Jay Prakash, Wang, Ling, Wang, Jianyong, Grebenc, Tine, Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Nahberger, Tina U., López Teixido, Alberto, Zhou, Xin-Quan, Berdugo, Miguel, Duran, Jorge, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Zhou, Xiaobing, Alfaro, Fernando, Abades, Sebastian, Plaza, César, Rey Muñoz, Ana Isabel, Singh, Brajesh K., Tedersoo, Leho, and Fierer, Noah

Abstract

Acknowledgments We would like to thank C. Walsh and R. Ochoa-Hueso for advice on bioinformatics and statistical analyses. We also thank M. Martin for revising the English of the manuscript. In addition, we thank J. Owojori for connecting us with our sampling collaborator in Nigeria, A. R. Bamigboye. Funding: M.D.-B. and this project were supported by a 2019 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators, BBVA Foundation (URBANFUN) and by the BES grant agreement no. LRB17\1019 (MUSGONET). M.D.-B. is also supported by a Ramón y Cajal grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (RYC2018-025483-I). N.F. was supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB1556090 and DEB1542653). L.T. acknowledges support from Norway-Baltic collaboration grant EMP442 and Estonian Science Foundation grant PRG632. B.K.S. acknowledges a research award by the Humboldt Foundation and funding from the Australian Research Council (DP190103714). F.A. is supported by ANID FONDECYT 11180538 and 1170995. S.A. is funded by ANID FONDECYT 1170995 and ANID ANILLO ACT192027. F.B. and J.L.M. acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry and FEDER funds for the project AGL2017-85755-R, the i-LINK+ 2018 (LINKA20069) from CSIC, as well as funds from “Fundación Séneca” from Murcia Province (19896/GERM/15). C.P. acknowledges support from the Spanish State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation (2013–2016), award reference AGL201675762-R (AEI/FEDER, UE). M.B. acknowledges support from a Juan de la Cierva Formación grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FJCI-2018-036520-I). T.P.M. would like to acknowledge contributions from the National Research Foundation of South Africa and cities involved in the South African survey. Slovenian coauthors were supported by the research project J4-1766 “Methodology approaches in genome-based diversity and ecological plasticity study of truffles from their natural distribution areas” and the Resea, The structure and function of the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces remain largely undetermined. We conducted a global field survey in urban greenspaces and neighboring natural ecosystems across 56 cities from six continents, and found that urban soils are important hotspots for soil bacterial, protist and functional gene diversity, but support highly homogenized microbial communities worldwide. Urban greenspaces had a greater proportion of fast-growing bacteria, algae, amoebae, and fungal pathogens, but a lower proportion of ectomycorrhizal fungi than natural ecosystems. These urban ecosystems also showed higher proportions of genes associated with human pathogens, greenhouse gas emissions, faster nutrient cycling, and more intense abiotic stress than natural environments. City affluence, management practices, and climate were fundamental drivers of urban soil communities. Our work paves the way toward a more comprehensive global-scale perspective on urban greenspaces, which is integral to managing the health of these ecosystems and the well-being of human populations., Depto. de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Fac. de Ciencias Biológicas, TRUE, pub

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2024

49. The global distribution and environmental drivers of the soil antibiotic resistome

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Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Hu, Hang-Wei, Maestre, Fernando T., Guerra, Carlos A., Eisenhauer, Nico, Eldridge, David J., Zhu, Yong-Guan, Chen, Qing-Lin, Trivedi, Pankaj, Du, Shuai, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Verma, Jay Prakash, Gozalo, Beatriz, Ochoa, Victoria, Asensio, Sergio, Wang, Ling, Zaady, Eli, Illán, Javier G., Siebe, Christina, Grebenc, Tine, Zhou, Xiaobing, Liu, Yu-Rong, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Blanco-Pastor, José L., Duran, Jorge, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Mamet, Steven, Alfaro, Fernando, Abades, Sebastian, López Teixido, Alberto, Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Pérez, Cecilia, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Neuhauser, Sigrid, He, Ji-Zheng, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Hu, Hang-Wei, Maestre, Fernando T., Guerra, Carlos A., Eisenhauer, Nico, Eldridge, David J., Zhu, Yong-Guan, Chen, Qing-Lin, Trivedi, Pankaj, Du, Shuai, Makhalanyane, Thulani P., Verma, Jay Prakash, Gozalo, Beatriz, Ochoa, Victoria, Asensio, Sergio, Wang, Ling, Zaady, Eli, Illán, Javier G., Siebe, Christina, Grebenc, Tine, Zhou, Xiaobing, Liu, Yu-Rong, Bamigboye, Adebola R., Blanco-Pastor, José L., Duran, Jorge, Rodríguez, Alexandra, Mamet, Steven, Alfaro, Fernando, Abades, Sebastian, López Teixido, Alberto, Peñaloza-Bojacá, Gabriel F., Molina-Montenegro, Marco A., Torres-Díaz, Cristian, Pérez, Cecilia, Gallardo, Antonio, García-Velázquez, Laura, Hayes, Patrick E., Neuhauser, Sigrid, and He, Ji-Zheng

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Funding This project received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 702057 (CLIMIFUN), a Large Research Grant from the British Ecological Society (agreement no. LRA17\1193; MUSGONET), and from the European Research Council (ERC grant agreement no. 647038, BIODESERT). M. D. B. was also supported by a Ramón y Cajal grant (RYC2018-025483-I). M.D-B. also acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the I+D+i project PID2020-115813RA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. M.D-B. is also supported by a project of the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) and the Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades of the Junta de Andalucía (FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020 Objetivo temático “01 - Refuerzo de la investigación, el desarrollo tecnológico y la innovación”) associated with the research project P20_00879 (ANDABIOMA). FTM acknowledges support from Generalitat Valenciana (CIDEGENT/2018/041). J. Z. H and H. W. H. are financially supported by Australian Research Council (DP210100332). We also thank the project CTM2015-64728-C2-2-R from the Ministry of Science of Spain. C. A. G. and N. E. acknowledge funding by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (FZT 118). TG was financially supported by Slovenian Research Agency (P4-0107, J4-3098 and J4-4547)., Background Little is known about the global distribution and environmental drivers of key microbial functional traits such as antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Soils are one of Earth’s largest reservoirs of ARGs, which are integral for soil microbial competition, and have potential implications for plant and human health. Yet, their diversity and global patterns remain poorly described. Here, we analyzed 285 ARGs in soils from 1012 sites across all continents and created the first global atlas with the distributions of topsoil ARGs. Results We show that ARGs peaked in high latitude cold and boreal forests. Climatic seasonality and mobile genetic elements, associated with the transmission of antibiotic resistance, were also key drivers of their global distribution. Dominant ARGs were mainly related to multidrug resistance genes and efflux pump machineries. We further pinpointed the global hotspots of the diversity and proportions of soil ARGs. Conclusions Together, our work provides the foundation for a better understanding of the ecology and global distribution of the environmental soil antibiotic resistome., Depto. de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Fac. de Ciencias Biológicas, TRUE, pub

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2024

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