Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands.

ABSTRACT: Determining the influence of climate in driving the global distribution of soil microbial communities is fundamental to help predict potential shifts in soil food webs and ecosystem functioning under global change scenarios. Herein, we used a global survey including 80 dryland ecosystems from six continents, and found that the relative abundance of ecological clusters formed by taxa involved in bacteria-fungi and bacteria-cercozoa bipartite networks was highly sensitive to changes in temperature and aridity. Importantly, such a result was maintained when controlling for soil, geographical location and vegetation attributes, being pH and soil organic carbon important determinants of the relative abundance of the ecological clusters. We also identified potential global associations between i

SUBMITTER: Pescador DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9234812 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature