Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Meta-analysis of the impacts of global change factors on soil microbial diversity and functionality

  • Zhenghu Zhou,
  • Chuankuan Wang,
  • Yiqi Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16881-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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It is often assumed that various types of anthropogenic change reduce microbial diversity and function. Here, the authors do a meta-analysis showing that global change factors affect microbial diversity inconsistently; negative effects are most likely for global change factors that affect soil pH.