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Multiple anthropogenic pressures eliminate the effects of soil microbial diversity on ecosystem functions in experimental microcosms
- Source :
- Nature Communications
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Freie Universität Berlin, 2022.
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Abstract
- Biodiversity is crucial for the provision of ecosystem functions. However, ecosystems are now exposed to a rapidly growing number of anthropogenic pressures, and it remains unknown whether biodiversity can still promote ecosystem functions under multifaceted pressures. Here we investigated the effects of soil microbial diversity on soil functions and properties when faced with an increasing number of simultaneous global change factors in experimental microcosms. Higher soil microbial diversity had a positive effect on soil functions and properties when no or few (i.e., 1–4) global change factors were applied, but this positive effect was eliminated by the co-occurrence of numerous global change factors. This was attributable to the reduction of soil fungal abundance and the relative abundance of an ecological cluster of coexisting soil bacterial and fungal taxa. Our study indicates that reducing the number of anthropogenic pressures should be a goal in ecosystem management, in addition to biodiversity conservation.
- Subjects :
- Multidisciplinary
Ecology
Anthropogenic Effects
General Physics and Astronomy
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften
Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften
Biologie
General Chemistry
Biodiversity
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Soil
FOS: Biological sciences
Climate-change
Ecosystem
Soil Microbiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....23e9d22bdd9b3191e5ae4d17b0a0bf72