Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity–soil multifunctionality relationships

  • Weigang Hu,
  • Jinzhi Ran,
  • Longwei Dong,
  • Qiajun Du,
  • Mingfei Ji,
  • Shuran Yao,
  • Yuan Sun,
  • Chunmei Gong,
  • Qingqing Hou,
  • Haiyang Gong,
  • Renfei Chen,
  • Jingli Lu,
  • Shubin Xie,
  • Zhiqiang Wang,
  • Heng Huang,
  • Xiaowei Li,
  • Junlan Xiong,
  • Rui Xia,
  • Maohong Wei,
  • Dongmin Zhao,
  • Yahui Zhang,
  • Jinhui Li,
  • Huixia Yang,
  • Xiaoting Wang,
  • Yan Deng,
  • Ying Sun,
  • Hailing Li,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Qipeng Chu,
  • Xinwei Li,
  • Muhammad Aqeel,
  • Abdul Manan,
  • Muhammad Adnan Akram,
  • Xianghan Liu,
  • Rui Li,
  • Fan Li,
  • Chen Hou,
  • Jianquan Liu,
  • Jin-Sheng He,
  • Lizhe An,
  • Richard D. Bardgett,
  • Bernhard Schmid,
  • Jianming Deng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25641-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships may vary with climate. Here, the authors study relationships of plant and soil microbial diversity with soil nutrient multifunctionality in 130 dryland sites in China, finding a shift towards greater importance of soil microbial diversity in arid conditions.