Phylogenetic conservation of soil bacterial responses to simulated global changes.

ABSTRACT: Soil bacterial communities are altered by anthropogenic drivers such as climate change-related warming and fertilization. However, we lack a predictive understanding of how bacterial communities respond to such global changes. Here, we tested whether phylogenetic information might be more predictive of the response of bacterial taxa to some forms of global change than others. We analysed the composition of soil bacterial communities from perturbation experiments that simulated warming, drought, elevated CO₂ concentration and phosphorus (P) addition. Bacterial responses were phylogenetically conserved to all perturbations. The phylogenetic depth of these responses varied minimally among the types of perturbations and was similar when merging data across locations, implying that t

SUBMITTER: Isobe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7133522 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature