Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; Peter B. Reich; Chanda Trivedi; David J. Eldridge; Sebastián Abades; Fernando D. Alfaro; Felipe Bastida; Asmeret A. Berhe; Nick A. Cutler; Antonio Gallardo; Laura García-Velázquez; Stephen C. Hart; Patrick E. Hayes; Ji Zheng He; Zeng Yei Hseu; Hang Wei Hu; Martin Kirchmair; Sigrid Neuhauser; Cecilia A. Pérez; Sasha C. Reed; Fernanda Santos; Benjamin W. Sullivan; Pankaj Trivedi; Jun Tao Wang; Luis Weber-Grullon; Mark A. Williams; Brajesh K. Singh

doi:10.1038/s41559-019-1084-y

Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Peter B. Reich, Chanda Trivedi, David J. Eldridge, Sebastián Abades, Fernando D. Alfaro, Felipe Bastida, Asmeret A. Berhe, Nick A. Cutler, Antonio Gallardo, Laura García-Velázquez, Stephen C. Hart, Patrick E. Hayes, Ji Zheng He, Zeng Yei Hseu, Hang Wei Hu, Martin Kirchmair, Sigrid Neuhauser, Cecilia A. Pérez, Sasha C. ReedFernanda Santos, Benjamin W. Sullivan, Pankaj Trivedi, Jun Tao Wang, Luis Weber-Grullon, Mark A. Williams, Brajesh K. Singh

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Abstract

The role of soil biodiversity in regulating multiple ecosystem functions is poorly understood, limiting our ability to predict how soil biodiversity loss might affect human wellbeing and ecosystem sustainability. Here, combining a global observational study with an experimental microcosm study, we provide evidence that soil biodiversity (bacteria, fungi, protists and invertebrates) is significantly and positively associated with multiple ecosystem functions. These functions include nutrient cycling, decomposition, plant production, and reduced potential for pathogenicity and belowground biological warfare. Our findings also reveal the context dependency of such relationships and the importance of the connectedness, biodiversity and nature of the globally distributed dominant phylotypes within the soil network in maintaining multiple functions. Moreover, our results suggest that the positive association between plant diversity and multifunctionality across biomes is indirectly driven by soil biodiversity. Together, our results provide insights into the importance of soil biodiversity for maintaining soil functionality locally and across biomes, as well as providing strong support for the inclusion of soil biodiversity in conservation and management programmes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	210-220
Number of pages	11
Journal	Nature Ecology and Evolution
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1084-y
State	Published - Feb 1 2020
Externally published	Yes

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We thank N. Fierer, M. Gebert, J. Henley, V. Ochoa, F. T. Maestre and B. Gozalo for their help with laboratory analyses; O. Sala, C. Siebe, C. Currier, M. A. Bowker, V. Parry, H. Lambers, P. Vitousek, V. M. Peña-Ramírez, L. Riedel, J. Larson, K. Waechter, W. Williams, S. Williams, B. Sulman, D. Buckner and B. Anacker for their help with soil sampling in Colorado, Hawaii, Iceland, New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico and Australia; the City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks for allowing us to conduct these samplings; C. Cano-Díaz for her advice about R analyses; S. K. Travers for her help with mapping. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 702057. M.D.-B. is supported by the Spanish Government under a Ramón y Cajal contract RYC2018-025483-I. This research is supported by the Australian Research Council projects (DP170104634; DP190103714). S.A. and F.D.A. are funded by FONDECYT 1170995, IAI-CRN 3005, PFB-23 (from CONICYT) and P05-002 (from Millennium Scientific Initiative). N.A.C. acknowledges support from Churchill College, University of Cambridge; and M.A.W. from the Wilderness State Park, Michigan for access to sample soil and conduct ecosystem survey. B.K.S. acknowledges a research award from the Humboldt Foundation. J.-Z.H. acknowledges support from the Australia Research Council (project DP170103628); and A.G. from the Spanish Ministry (project CGL2017-88124-R). F.B. thanks the Spanish Ministry and FEDER funds for the CICYT project AGL2017-85755-R, the CSIC project 201740I008 and funds from ‘Fundación Séneca’ from Murcia Province (19896/GERM/15). P.T. thanks K. Little for her help with laboratory analyses. S.C.R. was supported by the US Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area. Any use of trade, firm or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government. S.N. was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (grant Y801-B16).

Funders	Funder number
Murcia Province	19896/GERM/15
Spanish Government	RYC2018-025483-I
Spanish Ministry	CGL2017-88124-R
U.S. Geological Survey
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Fundación Séneca
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	702057
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
Australian Research Council	DP170104634, DP190103714, DP170103628
Austrian Science Fund	Y801-B16
Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo	P05-002
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico	1170995, IAI-CRN 3005, PFB-23
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas	201740I008
Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología	AGL2017-85755-R
European Regional Development Fund

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Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Reich, P. B., Trivedi, C., Eldridge, D. J., Abades, S., Alfaro, F. D., Bastida, F., Berhe, A. A., Cutler, N. A., Gallardo, A., García-Velázquez, L., Hart, S. C., Hayes, P. E., He, J. Z., Hseu, Z. Y., Hu, H. W., Kirchmair, M., Neuhauser, S., Pérez, C. A., ... Singh, B. K. (2020). Multiple elements of soil biodiversity drive ecosystem functions across biomes. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4(2), 210-220. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1084-y

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