Journal article
Identity of biocrust species and microbial communities drive the response of soil multifunctionality to simulated global change
YR Liu, M Delgado-Baquerizo, P Trivedi, JZ He, JT Wang, BK Singh
Soil Biology and Biochemistry | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2017
Abstract
Increasing N inputs and changing rainfall regimes will lead to drastic changes in multiple ecosystem functions such as nutrient cycling, organic matter decomposition and gas exchange in dryland ecosystems. As fundamental components of drylands, biological soil crusts (biocrusts) play important roles in the regulation of responses of multiple ecosystem functions to global environmental changes. Biocrusts are home to highly functional microbial communities; however little is known on the role of microbial communities associated with different biocrust species in regulating the response of multiple ecosystem functions to global change. Here, we conducted a microcosm experiment to evaluate the r..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Awarded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the Horizon Framework Programme H2020-MSCA-IF under REA grant
Funding Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge Raul Ochoa-Hueso for his assistance during field sampling and David Eldridge for help identifying biocrust species. We thank Catriona A. Macdonald and Yui Osanai for their help in chemical analysis and measurement of greenhouse gas, and the NGS team from Western Sydney University for their support with the Illumian platform for MiSeq sequencing. We also thank Jasmine Grinyer for revising the English of this manuscript. This work was financially supported by UWS-CAS bilateral agreement and the Australian Research Council project DP13010484. M.D-B. also acknowledge support from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 under REA grant agreement no 702057. The authors declare no competing financial interests.