{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chen H"],"funding":["National Natural Science Foundation of China"],"pagination":["716764"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8529109"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12"],"pubmed_abstract":["Anthropogenic disturbances and global climate change are causing large-scale biodiversity loss and threatening ecosystem functions. However, due to the lack of knowledge on microbial species loss, our understanding on how functional profiles of soil microbes respond to diversity decline is still limited. Here, we evaluated the biotic homogenization of global soil metagenomic data to examine whether microbial functional structure is resilient to significant diversity reduction. Our results showed that although biodiversity loss caused a decrease in taxonomic species by 72%, the changes in the relative abundance of diverse functional categories were limited. The stability of functional structures associated with microbial species richness decline in terrestrial systems suggests a decoupling "],"journal":["Frontiers in microbiology"],"pubmed_title":["Stable Soil Microbial Functional Structure Responding to Biodiversity Loss Based on Metagenomic Evidences."],"pmcid":["PMC8529109"],"funding_grant_id":["41977348"],"pubmed_authors":["Yao Z","Chu C","Huang Y","Chen H","Ma K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Stable Soil Microbial Functional Structure Responding to Biodiversity Loss Based on Metagenomic Evidences.","description":"Anthropogenic disturbances and global climate change are causing large-scale biodiversity loss and threatening ecosystem functions. However, due to the lack of knowledge on microbial species loss, our understanding on how functional profiles of soil microbes respond to diversity decline is still limited. Here, we evaluated the biotic homogenization of global soil metagenomic data to examine whether microbial functional structure is resilient to significant diversity reduction. Our results showed that although biodiversity loss caused a decrease in taxonomic species by 72%, the changes in the relative abundance of diverse functional categories were limited. The stability of functional structures associated with microbial species richness decline in terrestrial systems suggests a decoupling ","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021","modification":"2025-08-16T03:05:35.465Z","creation":"2025-02-19T00:18:29.567Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8529109","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34690962"],"doi":["10.3389/fmicb.2021.716764"]}}