Predicting spatial patterns of soil bacteria under current and future environmental conditions.

ABSTRACT: Soil bacteria are largely missing from future biodiversity assessments hindering comprehensive forecasts of ecosystem changes. Soil bacterial communities are expected to be more strongly driven by pH and less by other edaphic and climatic factors. Thus, alkalinisation or acidification along with climate change may influence soil bacteria, with subsequent influences for example on nutrient cycling and vegetation. Future forecasts of soil bacteria are therefore needed. We applied species distribution modelling (SDM) to quantify the roles of environmental factors in governing spatial abundance distribution of soil bacterial OTUs and to predict how future changes in these factors may change bacterial communities in a temperate mountain area. Models indicated that factors related to soil (espec

SUBMITTER: Mod HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8397778 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature