Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross‐site study
Abstract Climate change will result in reduced soil water availability in much of the world either due to changes in precipitation or increased temperature and evapotranspiration. How communities of mites and nematodes may respond to changes in moisture availability is not well known, yet these orga...
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crwiley:10.1111/gcb.12522 2024-06-02T07:57:43+00:00 Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross‐site study Sylvain, Zachary A. Wall, Diana H. Cherwin, Karie L. Peters, Debra P. C. Reichmann, Lara G. Sala, Osvaldo E. NSF 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12522 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fgcb.12522 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.12522 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/gcb.12522 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Global Change Biology volume 20, issue 8, page 2631-2643 ISSN 1354-1013 1365-2486 journal-article 2014 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12522 2024-05-03T10:48:24Z Abstract Climate change will result in reduced soil water availability in much of the world either due to changes in precipitation or increased temperature and evapotranspiration. How communities of mites and nematodes may respond to changes in moisture availability is not well known, yet these organisms play important roles in decomposition and nutrient cycling processes. We determined how communities of these organisms respond to changes in moisture availability and whether common patterns occur along fine‐scale gradients of soil moisture within four individual ecosystem types (mesic, xeric and arid grasslands and a polar desert) located in the western United States and Antarctica, as well as across a cross‐ecosystem moisture gradient ( CEMG ) of all four ecosystems considered together. An elevation transect of three sampling plots was monitored within each ecosystem and soil samples were collected from these plots and from existing experimental precipitation manipulations within each ecosystem once in fall of 2009 and three times each in 2010 and 2011. Mites and nematodes were sorted to trophic groups and analyzed to determine community responses to changes in soil moisture availability. We found that while both mites and nematodes increased with available soil moisture across the CEMG , within individual ecosystems, increases in soil moisture resulted in decreases to nematode communities at all but the arid grassland ecosystem; mites showed no responses at any ecosystem. In addition, we found changes in proportional abundances of mite and nematode trophic groups as soil moisture increased within individual ecosystems, which may result in shifts within soil food webs with important consequences for ecosystem functioning. We suggest that communities of soil animals at local scales may respond predictably to changes in moisture availability regardless of ecosystem type but that additional factors, such as climate variability, vegetation composition, and soil properties may influence this relationship over ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica polar desert Mite Wiley Online Library Global Change Biology 20 8 2631 2643 |
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Abstract Climate change will result in reduced soil water availability in much of the world either due to changes in precipitation or increased temperature and evapotranspiration. How communities of mites and nematodes may respond to changes in moisture availability is not well known, yet these organisms play important roles in decomposition and nutrient cycling processes. We determined how communities of these organisms respond to changes in moisture availability and whether common patterns occur along fine‐scale gradients of soil moisture within four individual ecosystem types (mesic, xeric and arid grasslands and a polar desert) located in the western United States and Antarctica, as well as across a cross‐ecosystem moisture gradient ( CEMG ) of all four ecosystems considered together. An elevation transect of three sampling plots was monitored within each ecosystem and soil samples were collected from these plots and from existing experimental precipitation manipulations within each ecosystem once in fall of 2009 and three times each in 2010 and 2011. Mites and nematodes were sorted to trophic groups and analyzed to determine community responses to changes in soil moisture availability. We found that while both mites and nematodes increased with available soil moisture across the CEMG , within individual ecosystems, increases in soil moisture resulted in decreases to nematode communities at all but the arid grassland ecosystem; mites showed no responses at any ecosystem. In addition, we found changes in proportional abundances of mite and nematode trophic groups as soil moisture increased within individual ecosystems, which may result in shifts within soil food webs with important consequences for ecosystem functioning. We suggest that communities of soil animals at local scales may respond predictably to changes in moisture availability regardless of ecosystem type but that additional factors, such as climate variability, vegetation composition, and soil properties may influence this relationship over ... |
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Sylvain, Zachary A. Wall, Diana H. Cherwin, Karie L. Peters, Debra P. C. Reichmann, Lara G. Sala, Osvaldo E. Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross‐site study |
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Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross‐site study |
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Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross‐site study |
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Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: insight from a cross‐site study |
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