TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity
AU - Rillig, Matthias C.
AU - Ryo, Masahiro
AU - Lehmann, Anika
AU - Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A.
AU - Buchert, Sabine
AU - Wulf, Anja
AU - Iwasaki, Aiko
AU - Roy, Julien
AU - Yang, Gaowen
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the following individuals for help with the experiment: P. Yakubovskaya, M. Ballhausen, and G. Erzigkeit. Students in the Master of Science course Plant Ecology helped with conceptual design. We thank J. Antonovics for comments and Forschungsstation Linde (Zwillenberg-Tietz Foundation, M. Wicke) for providing the soil. M.C.R. acknowledges funding from an ERC Advanced Grant (Gradual_Change) and from BMBF for the project ?Bridging in Biodiversity Sciences (BIBS).? M.R. acknowledges funding from the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Overseas Research Fellowships.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2019 The Authors,
PY - 2019/11/15
Y1 - 2019/11/15
N2 - Soils underpin terrestrial ecosystem functions, but they face numerous anthropogenic pressures. Despite their crucial ecological role, we know little about how soils react to more than two environmental factors at a time. Here, we show experimentally that increasing the number of simultaneous global change factors (up to 10) caused increasing directional changes in soil properties, soil processes, and microbial communities, though there was greater uncertainty in predicting the magnitude of change. Our study provides a blueprint for addressing multifactor change with an efficient, broadly applicable experimental design for studying the impacts of global environmental change.
AB - Soils underpin terrestrial ecosystem functions, but they face numerous anthropogenic pressures. Despite their crucial ecological role, we know little about how soils react to more than two environmental factors at a time. Here, we show experimentally that increasing the number of simultaneous global change factors (up to 10) caused increasing directional changes in soil properties, soil processes, and microbial communities, though there was greater uncertainty in predicting the magnitude of change. Our study provides a blueprint for addressing multifactor change with an efficient, broadly applicable experimental design for studying the impacts of global environmental change.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.aay2832
DO - 10.1126/science.aay2832
M3 - Article
C2 - 31727838
AN - SCOPUS:85075040527
VL - 366
SP - 886
EP - 890
JO - Science
JF - Science
SN - 0036-8075
IS - 6467
ER -
