climate change
Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary ScienceExisting Climate Change Will Lead to Pronounced Shifts in the Diversity of Soil ProkaryotesThere have been many studies highlighting how plant and animal communities lag behind climate change, causing extinction and diversity debts that will slowly be paid as communities equilibrate. By virtue of their short generation times and dispersal abilities, soil bacteria might be expected to respond to climate change quickly and to be effectively in equilibrium with current climatic conditions. We found strong evidence to the...
Research Article | Applied and Environmental ScienceSignificant Impacts of Increasing Aridity on the Arid Soil MicrobiomeWe identify key environmental and geochemical factors that shape the arid soil microbiome along aridity and vegetation gradients spanning over 300 km of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Decreasing average soil relative humidity and increasing temperature explain significant reductions in the diversity and connectivity of these desert soil microbial communities and lead to significant reductions in the abundance of key taxa typically...