ArticleGlobal change biology2022
Predicting the effects of multiple global change drivers on microbial communities remains challenging.
Article in Global change biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Elevational distribution patterns and drivers factors of fungal community diversity at different soil depths in theFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Analyzing microbial communities and their biodegradation of multiple pharmaceuticals in membrane bioreactors.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Predicting effects of multiple interacting global change drivers across trophic levels.Global change biology · 2023Article
- Predicting the effects of multiple global change drivers on microbial communities remains challenging.Global change biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Microbial communities in many ecosystems are facing a broad range of global change drivers, such as nutrient enrichment, chemical pollution, and temperature change. These drivers can cause changes in the abundance of taxa, the composition of communities, and the properties of ecosystems. While the influence of single drivers is already described in numerous studies, the effect and predictability of multiple drivers changing simultaneously is still poorly understood. In this study, we used 240 highly replicable oxic/anoxic aquatic lab microcosms and four drivers (fertilizer, glyphosate, metal pollution, antibiotics) in all possible combinations at three different temperatures (20, 24, and 28°C) to shed light into consequences of multiple drivers on different levels of organization, ranging from species abundance to community and ecosystem parameters. We found (i) that at all levels of ecological organization, combinations of drivers can change the biological consequence and direction of effect compared to single drivers, (ii) that effects of combinations are further modified by temperature, (iii) that a larger number of drivers occurring simultaneously is often quite closely related to their effect size, and (iv) that there is little evidence that any of these effects are associated with the level of ecological organization of the state variable. These findings suggest that, at least in this experimental ecosystem approximating a stratified aquatic ecosystem, there may be relatively little scope for predicting the effects of combinations of drivers from the effects of individual drivers, or by accounting for the level of ecological organization in question, though there may be some scope for prediction based on the number of drivers that are occurring simultaneous. A priority, though also a considerable challenge, is to extend such research to consider continuous variation in the magnitude of multiple drivers acting together.
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