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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2431
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- ADEME (Energy and Environment Management Agency)
- French National Research Agency (ANR Biodiversity, ECOMIC-RMQS)
- French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development
- French Ministry of Agriculture
- French Agency for Energy and Environment (ADEME)
- French Institute for Research and Development (IRD)
- National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA)
- National Institute of the Geographic and Forest Information (IGN)
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Spatial scaling and determinism of the wide-scale distribution of macroorganism diversity has been largely demonstrated over a century. For microorganisms, and especially for soil bacteria, this fundamental question requires more thorough investigation, as little information has been reported to date. Here by applying the taxa-area relationship to the largest spatially explicit soil sampling available in France (2,085 soils, area covered similar to 5.3 x 10(5) km(2)) and developing an innovative evaluation of the habitat-area relationship, we show that the turnover rate of bacterial diversity in soils on a wide scale is highly significant and strongly correlated with the turnover rate of soil habitat. As the diversity of micro-and macroorganisms appears to be driven by similar processes (dispersal and selection), maintaining diverse and spatially structured habitats is essential for soil biological patrimony and the resulting ecosystem services.
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