The biogeography of relative abundance of soil fungi versus bacteria in surface topsoil
Earth System Science Data
By: Kailiang Yu, Johan van den Hoogen, Zhiqiang Wang, Colin Averill, Devin Routh, Gabriel Reuben Smith, Rebecca E. Drenovsky, Kate M. Scow, Fei Mo, Mark Waldrop, Yuanhe Yang, Weize Tang, Franciska De Vries, Richard D. Bardgett, Peter Manning, Felipe Bastida, Sara G. Baer, Elizabeth Bach, Carlos J. Garcia, Qingkui Wang, Linna Ma, Baodong Chen, Xianjing He, Sven Teurlinex, Amber Heijboer, James A. Bradley, and Thomas W. Crowther
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Abstract
Fungi and bacteria are the two dominant groups of soil microbial communities worldwide. By controlling the turnover of soil organic matter, these organisms directly regulate the exchange of carbon between the soil and the atmosphere. Fundamental differences in the physiology and life history of bacteria and fungi suggest that variation in the biogeography of soil fungal and bacterial relative abundance could drive striking differences in carbon decomposition and soil organic matter formation across different biomes. However, a lack of global and predictive information on the distribution of these organisms in terrestrial 45 ecosystems has prevented the inclusion of soil fungal and bacterial relative abundance and the associated processes into global biogeochemical models. Here, we used a global scale dataset in the top soil surface (>3000 distinct observations of soil fungal and bacterial abundance) to generate the first quantitative and spatially high resolution (1km) explicit map of soil fungal proportion, defined as fungi/fungi + bacteria, across terrestrial ecosystems. We reveal striking latitudinal trends where fungal dominance increases in cold and high latitude environments with large soil carbon stocks. There was strong non-linear response of fungal 50 dominance to environmental gradient, i.e., mean annual temperature (MAT) and net primary productivity (NPP). Fungi and bacteria dominated in regions with low and high MAT and NPP, respectively, thus representing slow vs. fast soil energy channels, a concept with a long history in soil ecology. These high-resolution models provide the first steps towards representing the major soil microbial groups and their functional differences in global biogeochemical models to improve predictions of soil organic matter turnover under current and future climate scenarios
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Yu, K., Hoogen, J.V., Wang, Z., Averill, C., Routh, D., Smith, G.R., Drenovsky, R.E., Scow, K., Mo, F., Waldrop, M., Yang, Y., Tang, W., De Vries, F., Bardgett, R., Manning, P., Bastida, F., Baer, S.G., Bach, E., Garcia, C.J., Wang, Q., Ma, L., Chen, B., He, X., Teurlinex, S., Heijboer, A., Bradley, J.A., Crowther, T.W., 2022, The biogeography of relative abundance of soil fungi versus bacteria in surface topsoil: Earth System Science Data, v. 14, p. 4339-4350, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4339-2022.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | The biogeography of relative abundance of soil fungi versus bacteria in surface topsoil |
| Series title | Earth System Science Data |
| DOI | 10.5194/essd-14-4339-2022 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Publication Date | September 22, 2022 |
| Year Published | 2022 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Earth System Science Data |
| Contributing office(s) | Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center |
| Description | 12 p, |
| First page | 4339 |
| Last page | 4350 |