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ArticleThe ISME journal2025

Climate warming enhances biodiversity and stability of grassland soil phosphorus-cycling microbial communities.

Zijian Wang, Il Han, Jangho Lee, Guangyu Li, Peisheng He, Mathew T Baldwin, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Liyou Wu, Jizhong Zhou, April Z Gu

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Article in The ISME journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Zijian WangDepartment of Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.
Il HanSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.
Jangho LeeSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.
Guangyu LiSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.
Peisheng HeSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.
Mathew T BaldwinCenter for Research on Programmable Plant Systems, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.
Jenny Kao-KniffinSchool of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9469-8088
Liyou WuInstitute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, United States.
Jizhong ZhouInstitute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, United States.
April Z GuCenter for Research on Programmable Plant Systems, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States.

Funding

United States Natural Science Foundation Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems NSF DBI-2019674United States USDA-NIFA 2019-67013-29364
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate warming poses significant challenges to global phosphorus sustainability, an essential component of Earth biogeochemistry cycling and water-food-energy nexus. Despite the crucial role of polyphosphate-accumulating organism as key functional microbial agents in phosphorus cycling, the impacts of global climate warming on polyphosphate accumulating organism communities remain largely enigmatic. This study investigates the effects of climate warming on the taxonomic, network, and functional profiles of soil bacterial polyphosphate-accumulating organisms, leveraging fluorescence-activated cell sorting and single-cell Raman spectroscopy. Climate warming enhances both taxonomic and functional biodiversity of polyphosphate-accumulating organisms via biotic interactions and environmental filtering, with observed functionality-biodiversity relationships supporting the functional redundancy theory. Furthermore, polyphosphate-accumulating organism network complexity and stability rise under warming with strengthened positive relationships, supporting stress gradient hypothesis and the belief that complexity begets stability. Finally, polyphosphate-accumulating organisms are significantly correlated to key ecosystem functioning in carbon and phosphorus cycling under warming. Our study suggests that preserving polyphosphate-accumulating organism communities is crucial for maintaining soil ecosystem functioning and sustainable phosphorus management in a warming world and opens avenues for predicting the responses of other functional microbial groups to climate change, beneficially or maliciously.

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BacteriaBiodiversityGlobal WarmingGrasslandMicrobiotaPhosphorusSoil MicrobiologyClimate ChangeFlow CytometryPolyphosphatesSoilSpectrum Analysis, RamanPhosphorusPolyphosphatesSoilclimate changefluorescence-activated cell sortingmicrobial biodiversitypolyphosphate accumulating organismssingle-cell Raman spectroscopysoil phosphorus cyclingsustainable phosphorus management

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PMID40576777
PMCPMC12366793

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