Global projections of the soil microbiome in the Anthropocene.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Soil microbes are essential for maintenance of life-supporting ecosystem services, but projections of how these microbes will be affected by global change scenarios are lacking. Therefore, our aim was to provide projections of future soil microbial distribution using several scenarios of global change.

Location

Global.

Time period

1950-2090.

Major taxa studied

Bacteria and fungi.

Methods

We used a global database of soil microbial communities across six continents to estimate past and future trends of the soil microbiome. To do so, we used structural equation models to include the direct and indirect effects of changes in climate and land use in our predictions, using current climate (temperature and precipitation) and land-use projections between 19

SUBMITTER: Guerra CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7610617 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature