Nature Communications (Aug 2018)
Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks
- Franciska T. de Vries,
- Rob I. Griffiths,
- Mark Bailey,
- Hayley Craig,
- Mariangela Girlanda,
- Hyun Soon Gweon,
- Sara Hallin,
- Aurore Kaisermann,
- Aidan M. Keith,
- Marina Kretzschmar,
- Philippe Lemanceau,
- Erica Lumini,
- Kelly E. Mason,
- Anna Oliver,
- Nick Ostle,
- James I. Prosser,
- Cecile Thion,
- Bruce Thomson,
- Richard D. Bardgett
Affiliations
- Franciska T. de Vries
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
- Rob I. Griffiths
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford
- Mark Bailey
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford
- Hayley Craig
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
- Mariangela Girlanda
- Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino
- Hyun Soon Gweon
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford
- Sara Hallin
- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Aurore Kaisermann
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
- Aidan M. Keith
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Lancaster
- Marina Kretzschmar
- Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Philippe Lemanceau
- Agroécologie, AgroSup Dijon, INRA, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté
- Erica Lumini
- CNR—Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection
- Kelly E. Mason
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Lancaster
- Anna Oliver
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford
- Nick Ostle
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- James I. Prosser
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen
- Cecile Thion
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen
- Bruce Thomson
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wallingford
- Richard D. Bardgett
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05516-7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Drought conditions can alter the composition of soil microbial communities, but the effects of drought on network properties have not been tested. Here, de Vries and colleagues show that co-occurrence networks are destabilised under drought for bacteria but not fungi.
