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    Aridity-driven shift in biodiversity–soil multifunctionality relationships

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    Authors
    Hu, Weigang; orcid: 0000-0003-1422-3726
    Ran, Jinzhi
    Dong, Longwei
    Du, Qiajun
    Ji, Mingfei
    Yao, Shuran
    Sun, Yuan
    Gong, Chunmei
    Hou, Qingqing
    Gong, Haiyang
    Chen, Renfei
    Lu, Jingli
    Xie, Shubin
    Wang, Zhiqiang
    Huang, Heng; orcid: 0000-0001-5552-3333
    Li, Xiaowei
    Xiong, Junlan
    Xia, Rui
    Wei, Maohong
    Zhao, Dongmin
    Zhang, Yahui
    Li, Jinhui
    Yang, Huixia
    Wang, Xiaoting
    Deng, Yan
    Sun, Ying
    Li, Hailing
    Zhang, Liang
    Chu, Qipeng
    Li, Xinwei
    Aqeel, Muhammad
    Manan, Abdul
    Akram, Muhammad Adnan
    Liu, Xianghan
    Li, Rui
    Li, Fan
    Hou, Chen
    Liu, Jianquan; orcid: 0000-0001-9337-9555
    He, Jin-Sheng; orcid: 0000-0001-5081-3569
    An, Lizhe
    Bardgett, Richard D.; orcid: 0000-0002-5131-0127; email: richard.bardgett@manchester.ac.uk
    Schmid, Bernhard; orcid: 0000-0002-8430-3214; email: bernhard.schmid@ieu.uzh.ch
    Deng, Jianming; orcid: 0000-0002-5901-2175; email: dengjm@lzu.edu.cn
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    2021-09-09
    Submitted date
    2021-01-07
    
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    Abstract: Relationships between biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions (that is, ecosystem multifunctionality) are context-dependent. Both plant and soil microbial diversity have been reported to regulate ecosystem multifunctionality, but how their relative importance varies along environmental gradients remains poorly understood. Here, we relate plant and microbial diversity to soil multifunctionality across 130 dryland sites along a 4,000 km aridity gradient in northern China. Our results show a strong positive association between plant species richness and soil multifunctionality in less arid regions, whereas microbial diversity, in particular of fungi, is positively associated with multifunctionality in more arid regions. This shift in the relationships between plant or microbial diversity and soil multifunctionality occur at an aridity level of ∼0.8, the boundary between semiarid and arid climates, which is predicted to advance geographically ∼28% by the end of the current century. Our study highlights that biodiversity loss of plants and soil microorganisms may have especially strong consequences under low and high aridity conditions, respectively, which calls for climate-specific biodiversity conservation strategies to mitigate the effects of aridification.
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    Nature Communications, volume 12, issue 1, page 5350
    Publisher
    Nature Publishing Group UK
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10034/625815
    Type
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    From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications Router
    History: received 2021-01-07, accepted 2021-08-12, registration 2021-08-25, pub-electronic 2021-09-09, online 2021-09-09, collection 2021-12
    Publication status: Published
    Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China); doi: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001809; Grant(s): 31770430
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