Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils

Climate warming has a wide range of effects on biodiversity. Here, Zhou et al. show that although variation in environmental temperature is a primary driver of soil microbial biodiversity, microbes show much lower rates of turnover across temperature gradients than other major taxa.

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Main Authors: Jizhong Zhou, Ye Deng, Lina Shen, Chongqing Wen, Qingyun Yan, Daliang Ning, Yujia Qin, Kai Xue, Liyou Wu, Zhili He, James W. Voordeckers, Joy D. Van Nostrand, Vanessa Buzzard, Sean T. Michaletz, Brian J. Enquist, Michael D. Weiser, Michael Kaspari, Robert Waide, Yunfeng Yang, James H. Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12083

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