title: Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils.
abstract: Climate warming is increasingly leading to marked changes in plant and animal biodiversity, but it remains unclear how temperatures affect microbial biodiversity, particularly in terrestrial soils. Here we show that, in accordance with metabolic theory of ecology, taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of soil bacteria, fungi and nitrogen fixers are all better predicted by variation in environmental temperature than pH. However, the rates of diversity turnover across the global temperature gradients are substantially lower than those recorded for trees and animals, suggesting that the diversity of plant, animal and soil microbial communities show differential responses to climate change. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study demonstrating that the diversity of different microbial groups has significantly lower rates of turnover across temperature gradients than other major taxa, which has important implications for assessing the effects of human-caused changes in climate, land use and other factors.
authors.affiliation: State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.|Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.|Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94270, USA.
authors.forename: Jizhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.|CAS Key Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.
authors.forename: Ye
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7584-0632
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Chongqing
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Qingyun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Daliang
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ning
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Yujia
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Liyou
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Zhili
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: James W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Voordeckers
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Joy D Van
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Nostrand
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Buzzard
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
authors.forename: Sean T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Michaletz
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.|The Santa Fe Institute, USA, 1399 Hyde Park Rd, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA.
authors.forename: Brian J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Enquist
authors.affiliation: EEB Graduate Program, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Weiser
authors.affiliation: EEB Graduate Program, Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA.|Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa 0843-03092, Republic of Panama.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaspari
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waide
authors.affiliation: State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Yunfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA.
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D001105:Archaea / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D044822:Biodiversity; D057231:Climate Change; D065928:Forests; D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009586:Nitrogen Fixation; D010176:Panama; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology*; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D012339:RNA, Ribosomal, 28S / Q000235:genetics; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013696:Temperature; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D012339:RNA, Ribosomal, 28S; D012987:Soil