Soil Microbial Biogeography in a Changing World: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

mSystems

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo¹  Haiyan Chu²  Gui-Feng Gao²  Kunkun Fan²  Yuying Ma² 

[1] Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain;State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China;

关键词: future perspectives;    recent advances;    soil microbial biogeography;   

DOI  :  10.1128/mSystems.00803-19

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACT Soil microbial communities are fundamental to maintaining key soil processes associated with litter decomposition, nutrient cycling, and plant productivity and are thus integral to human well-being. Recent technological advances have exponentially increased our knowledge concerning the global ecological distributions of microbial communities across space and time and have provided evidence for their contribution to ecosystem functions. However, major knowledge gaps in soil biogeography remain to be addressed over the coming years as technology and research questions continue to evolve. In this minireview, we state recent advances and future directions in the study of soil microbial biogeography and discuss the need for a clearer concept of microbial species, projections of soil microbial distributions toward future global change scenarios, and the importance of embracing culture and isolation approaches to determine microbial functional profiles. This knowledge will be critical to better predict ecosystem functions in a changing world.

【 授权许可】

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