Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems

Qingshui Yu; Chenqi He; Mark A. Anthony; Bernhard Schmid; Arthur Gessler; Chen Yang; Danhua Zhang; Xiaofeng Ni; Yuhao Feng; Jiangling Zhu; Biao Zhu; Shaopeng Wang; Chengjun Ji; Zhiyao Tang; Jin Wu; Pete Smith; Lingli Liu; Mai He Li; Marcus Schaub; Jingyun Fang

doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54304-z

Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems

Qingshui Yu, Chenqi He, Mark A. Anthony, Bernhard Schmid, Arthur Gessler, Chen Yang, Danhua Zhang, Xiaofeng Ni, Yuhao Feng, Jiangling Zhu, Biao Zhu, Shaopeng Wang, Chengjun Ji, Zhiyao Tang, Jin Wu, Pete Smith, Lingli Liu, Mai He Li, Marcus Schaub, Jingyun Fang^* (Corresponding Author)

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	10369
Number of pages	12
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	15
Issue number	1
Early online date	29 Nov 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54304-z
Publication status	Published - Dec 2024

Bibliographical note

We would like to extend thanks to all the researchers whose data were included in this global meta-analysis. J.F. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31988102). Q.Y. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32401376), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2023M740040), and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grade B, GZB20240021).

Data Availability Statement

Data availability
All data generated and analyzed in this study have been deposited in the DYRAD database (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q83bk3jqd).

Code availability
Codes for processing the data in this study have been deposited in the DYRAD database (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q83bk3jqd).

Supplementary information
The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54304-z.

Funding

J.F. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31988102). Q.Y. acknowledges the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32401376), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2023M740040), and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Grade B, GZB20240021).

Funders	Funder number
National Natural Science Foundation of China	31988102, 32401376
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation	2023M740040
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program	GZB20240021

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Yu, Q., He, C., Anthony, M. A., Schmid, B., Gessler, A., Yang, C., Zhang, D., Ni, X., Feng, Y., Zhu, J., Zhu, B., Wang, S., Ji, C., Tang, Z., Wu, J., Smith, P., Liu, L., Li, M. H., Schaub, M., & Fang, J. (2024). Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 10369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54304-z

Yu, Q, He, C, Anthony, MA, Schmid, B, Gessler, A, Yang, C, Zhang, D, Ni, X, Feng, Y, Zhu, J, Zhu, B, Wang, S, Ji, C, Tang, Z, Wu, J, Smith, P, Liu, L, Li, MH, Schaub, M & Fang, J 2024, 'Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 10369. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54304-z

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Decoupled responses of plants and soil biota to global change across the world’s land ecosystems

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