Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

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作者
de Vries, Franciska T. [1 ]
Manning, Pete [2 ]
Tallowin, Jerry R. B. [3 ]
Mortimer, Simon R. [4 ]
Pilgrim, Emma S. [3 ]
Harrison, Kathryn A. [1 ]
Hobbs, Phil J. [3 ]
Quirk, Helen [1 ]
Shipley, Bill [5 ]
Cornelissen, Johannes H. C. [6 ]
Kattge, Jens [7 ]
Bardgett, Richard D. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster Environm Ctr, Soil & Ecosyst Ecol Lab, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, England
[2] Newcastle Univ, Sch Agr Food & Rural Dev, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, Tyne & Wear, England
[3] Rothamsted Res, Okehampton EX20 2SB, Devon, England
[4] Univ Reading, Ctr Agrienvironm Res, Reading RG6 6AR, Berks, England
[5] Univ Sherbrooke, Dept Biol, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R9, Canada
[6] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Fac Earth & Life Sci, Dept Ecol Sci, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[7] Max Planck Inst Biogeochem, D-07745 Jena, Germany
基金
英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;
关键词
bacteria; carbon; climate; distribution; fungi; microbial communities; modelling; nitrogen; plant communities; plant functional traits; soil; RELATIVE GROWTH-RATE; LAND-USE; LITTER DECOMPOSABILITY; ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES; FUNGAL COMMUNITIES; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; FOOD WEBS; BACTERIAL; DIVERSITY; GRASSLANDS;
D O I
10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01844.x
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
The controls on aboveground community composition and diversity have been extensively studied, but our understanding of the drivers of belowground microbial communities is relatively lacking, despite their importance for ecosystem functioning. In this study, we fitted statistical models to explain landscape-scale variation in soil microbial community composition using data from 180 sites covering a broad range of grassland types, soil and climatic conditions in England. We found that variation in soil microbial communities was explained by abiotic factors like climate, pH and soil properties. Biotic factors, namely community-weighted means (CWM) of plant functional traits, also explained variation in soil microbial communities. In particular, more bacterial-dominated microbial communities were associated with exploitative plant traits versus fungal-dominated communities with resource-conservative traits, showing that plant functional traits and soil microbial communities are closely related at the landscape scale.
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页码:1230 / 1239
页数:10
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