Nature Communications (Jul 2016)
Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils
- Jizhong Zhou,
- Ye Deng,
- Lina Shen,
- Chongqing Wen,
- Qingyun Yan,
- Daliang Ning,
- Yujia Qin,
- Kai Xue,
- Liyou Wu,
- Zhili He,
- James W. Voordeckers,
- Joy D. Van Nostrand,
- Vanessa Buzzard,
- Sean T. Michaletz,
- Brian J. Enquist,
- Michael D. Weiser,
- Michael Kaspari,
- Robert Waide,
- Yunfeng Yang,
- James H. Brown
Affiliations
- Jizhong Zhou
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University
- Ye Deng
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Lina Shen
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Chongqing Wen
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Qingyun Yan
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Daliang Ning
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Yujia Qin
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Kai Xue
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Liyou Wu
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Zhili He
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- James W. Voordeckers
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Joy D. Van Nostrand
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma
- Vanessa Buzzard
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
- Sean T. Michaletz
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
- Brian J. Enquist
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
- Michael D. Weiser
- Department of Biology, EEB Graduate Program, University of Oklahoma
- Michael Kaspari
- Department of Biology, EEB Graduate Program, University of Oklahoma
- Robert Waide
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
- Yunfeng Yang
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University
- James H. Brown
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12083
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Climate warming has a wide range of effects on biodiversity. Here, Zhou et al. show that although variation in environmental temperature is a primary driver of soil microbial biodiversity, microbes show much lower rates of turnover across temperature gradients than other major taxa.
