生态学
生态系统
生物
营养循环
生物多样性
营养水平
生物地球化学循环
生态系统生态学
土壤生态学
陆地生态系统
土壤肥力
土壤生物多样性
土壤水分
作者
Vanessa Buzzard,Sean T. Michaletz,Ye Deng,Zhili He,Daliang Ning,Lei Shen,Qichao Tu,Joy D. Van Nostrand,James W. Voordeckers,Jianjun Wang,Michael D. Weiser,Michael Kaspari,Robert B. Waide,Jizhong Zhou,Brian J. Enquist
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-0954-7
摘要
Trait-based ecology claims to offer a mechanistic approach for explaining the drivers that structure biological diversity and predicting the responses of species, trophic interactions and ecosystems to environmental change. However, support for this claim is lacking across broad taxonomic groups. A framework for defining ecosystem processes in terms of the functional traits of their constituent taxa across large spatial scales is needed. Here, we provide a comprehensive assessment of the linkages between climate, plant traits and soil microbial traits at many sites spanning a broad latitudinal temperature gradient from tropical to subalpine forests. Our results show that temperature drives coordinated shifts in most plant and soil bacterial traits but these relationships are not observed for most fungal traits. Shifts in plant traits are mechanistically associated with soil bacterial functional traits related to carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycling, indicating that microbial processes are tightly linked to variation in plant traits that influence rates of ecosystem decomposition and nutrient cycling. Our results are consistent with hypotheses that diversity gradients reflect shifts in phenotypic optima signifying local temperature adaptation mediated by soil nutrient availability and metabolism. They underscore the importance of temperature in structuring the functional diversity of plants and soil microbes in forest ecosystems and how this is coupled to biogeochemical processes via functional traits.
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