ArticleNature communications2024
Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world's land ecosystems.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Global nitrogen enrichment impacts plant diversity more than soil bacterial and fungal diversity: a meta-analysis.Nature communications · 2026Pooled it
- Critical thresholds for co-benefits of carbon accumulation and biodiversity conservation under global nitrogen enrichment.Nature communications · 2026Pooled it
- Global-scale patterns of bioavailable soil phosphorus driven by agricultural fertilization.iScience · 2026Article
- Experimental warming decouples plant-fungal symbiont interactions and leads to a more conservative ecosystem.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Metagenomics reveals the functional profiles of soil microorganisms and nutrient cycling under long-term grass vegetation cropping.Current research in microbial sciences · 2026Article
- Soil microbial community differences drive variation in Pinus sylvestris physiology, productivity, and responses to elevated COEnvironmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Disentangling Drivers of Soil Bacterial and Fungal Diversity on Tropical Islands.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Understanding the concurrent responses of aboveground and belowground biota compartments to global changes is crucial for the maintenance of ecosystem functions and biodiversity conservation. We conduct a comprehensive analysis synthesizing data from 13,209 single observations and 3223 pairwise observations from 1166 publications across the world terrestrial ecosystems to examine the responses of plants and soil organisms and their synchronization. We find that global change factors (GCFs) generally promote plant biomass but decreased plant species diversity. In comparison, the responses of belowground soil biota to GCFs are more variable and harder to predict. The analysis of the paired aboveground and belowground observations demonstrate that responses of plants and soil organisms to GCFs are decoupled among diverse groups of soil organisms for different biomes. Our study highlights the importance of integrative research on the aboveground-belowground system for improving predictions regarding the consequences of global environmental change.
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