Functional Redundancy in Soil Microbial Community Based on Metagenomics Across the Globe.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the contribution of soil microbial communities to ecosystem processes is critical for predicting terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks under changing climate. Our current understanding lacks a consistent strategy to formulate the linkage between microbial systems and ecosystem processes due to the presumption of functional redundancy in soil microbes. Here we present a global soil microbial metagenomic analysis to generalize patterns of microbial taxonomic compositions and functional potentials across climate and geochemical gradient. Our analyses show that soil microbial taxonomic composition varies widely in response to climate and soil physicochemical gradients, while microbial functional attributes based on metagenomic gene abundances are redundant. Among 17 climate zones, micr

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9108720 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature