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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16881-7
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31901293]
- Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association for Science and Technology [2018QNRC001]
- National Key Technology Research and Development Program of China [2011BAD37B01]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University [IRT_15R09]
- Heilongjiang Touyan Innovation Team Program for Forest Ecology and Conservation
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Biodiversity on the Earth is changing at an unprecedented rate due to a variety of global change factors (GCFs). However, the effects of GCFs on microbial diversity is unclear despite that soil microorganisms play a critical role in biogeochemical cycling. Here, we synthesize 1235 GCF observations worldwide and show that microbial rare species are more sensitive to GCFs than common species, while GCFs do not always lead to a reduction in microbial diversity. GCFs-induced shifts in microbial alpha diversity can be predominately explained by the changed soil pH. In addition, GCF impacts on soil functionality are explained by microbial community structure and biomass rather than the alpha diversity. Altogether, our findings of GCF impacts on microbial diversity are fundamentally different from previous knowledge for well-studied plant and animal communities, and are crucial to policy-making for the conservation of microbial diversity hotspots under global changes. It is often assumed that various types of anthropogenic change reduce microbial diversity and function. Here, the authors do a meta-analysis showing that global change factors affect microbial diversity inconsistently; negative effects are most likely for global change factors that affect soil pH.
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