Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails
International audience Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil arthropods regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of spring...
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[SDE]Environmental Sciences [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] Potapov, Anton Guerra, Carlos van den Hoogen, Johan Babenko, Anatoly Bellini, Bruno Berg, Matty Chown, Steven Deharveng, Louis Kováč, Ľubomír Kuznetsova, Natalia Ponge, Jean-François Potapov, Mikhail Russell, David Alexandre, Douglas Alatalo, Juha Arbea, Javier Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa Bernava, Verónica Bokhorst, Stef Bolger, Thomas Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela Chauvat, Matthieu Chen, Ting-Wen Chomel, Mathilde Classen, Aimee Cortet, Jerome Čuchta, Peter Manuela de la Pedrosa, Ana Ferreira, Susana Fiera, Cristina Filser, Juliane Franken, Oscar Fujii, Saori Koudji, Essivi Gagnon Gao, Meixiang Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit Gomez-Pamies, Diego Greve, Michelle Tanya Handa, I. Heiniger, Charlène Holmstrup, Martin Homet, Pablo Ivask, Mari Janion-Scheepers, Charlene Jochum, Malte Joimel, Sophie Claudia S. Jorge, Bruna Jucevica, Edite Ferlian, Olga Iuñes de Oliveira Filho, Luís Carlos Klauberg-Filho, Osmar Baretta, Dilmar Krab, Eveline Kuu, Annely de Lima, Estevam Lin, Dunmei Lindo, Zoe Liu, Amy Lu, Jing-Zhong Luciañez, María José Marx, Michael McCary, Matthew Minor, Maria Nakamori, Taizo Negri, Ilaria Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl Palacios-Vargas, José Pollierer, Melanie Querner, Pascal Raschmanová, Natália Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz Raymond-Léonard, Laura Rousseau, Laurent Saifutdinov, Ruslan Salmon, Sandrine Sayer, Emma Scheunemann, Nicole Scholz, Cornelia Seeber, Julia Shveenkova, Yulia Stebaeva, Sophya Sterzynska, Maria Sun, Xin Susanti, Winda Taskaeva, Anastasia Thakur, Madhav Tsiafouli, Maria Turnbull, Matthew Twala, Mthokozisi N. Uvarov, Alexei Venier, Lisa Widenfalk, Lina Winck, Bruna Winkler, Daniel Wu, Donghui Xie, Zhijing Yin, Rui Zeppelini, Douglas Crowther, Thomas Eisenhauer, Nico Scheu, Stefan Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails |
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International audience Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil arthropods regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of springtail diversity and density, and how these relate to energy fluxes remains unknown. Here, using a global dataset representing 2470 sites, we estimate the total soil springtail biomass at 27.5 megatons carbon, which is threefold higher than wild terrestrial vertebrates, and record peak densities up to 2 million individuals per square meter in the tundra. Despite a 20-fold biomass difference between the tundra and the tropics, springtail energy use (community metabolism) remains similar across the latitudinal gradient, owing to the changes in temperature with latitude. Neither springtail density nor community metabolism is predicted by local species richness, which is high in the tropics, but comparably high in some temperate forests and even tundra. Changes in springtail activity may emerge from latitudinal gradients in temperature, predation and resource limitation in soil communities. Contrasting relationships of biomass, diversity and activity of springtail communities with temperature suggest that climate warming will alter fundamental soil biodiversity metrics in different directions, potentially restructuring terrestrial food webs and affecting soil functioning. |
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Potapov, Anton Guerra, Carlos van den Hoogen, Johan Babenko, Anatoly Bellini, Bruno Berg, Matty Chown, Steven Deharveng, Louis Kováč, Ľubomír Kuznetsova, Natalia Ponge, Jean-François Potapov, Mikhail Russell, David Alexandre, Douglas Alatalo, Juha Arbea, Javier Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa Bernava, Verónica Bokhorst, Stef Bolger, Thomas Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela Chauvat, Matthieu Chen, Ting-Wen Chomel, Mathilde Classen, Aimee Cortet, Jerome Čuchta, Peter Manuela de la Pedrosa, Ana Ferreira, Susana Fiera, Cristina Filser, Juliane Franken, Oscar Fujii, Saori Koudji, Essivi Gagnon Gao, Meixiang Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit Gomez-Pamies, Diego Greve, Michelle Tanya Handa, I. Heiniger, Charlène Holmstrup, Martin Homet, Pablo Ivask, Mari Janion-Scheepers, Charlene Jochum, Malte Joimel, Sophie Claudia S. Jorge, Bruna Jucevica, Edite Ferlian, Olga Iuñes de Oliveira Filho, Luís Carlos Klauberg-Filho, Osmar Baretta, Dilmar Krab, Eveline Kuu, Annely de Lima, Estevam Lin, Dunmei Lindo, Zoe Liu, Amy Lu, Jing-Zhong Luciañez, María José Marx, Michael McCary, Matthew Minor, Maria Nakamori, Taizo Negri, Ilaria Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl Palacios-Vargas, José Pollierer, Melanie Querner, Pascal Raschmanová, Natália Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz Raymond-Léonard, Laura Rousseau, Laurent Saifutdinov, Ruslan Salmon, Sandrine Sayer, Emma Scheunemann, Nicole Scholz, Cornelia Seeber, Julia Shveenkova, Yulia Stebaeva, Sophya Sterzynska, Maria Sun, Xin Susanti, Winda Taskaeva, Anastasia Thakur, Madhav Tsiafouli, Maria Turnbull, Matthew Twala, Mthokozisi N. Uvarov, Alexei Venier, Lisa Widenfalk, Lina Winck, Bruna Winkler, Daniel Wu, Donghui Xie, Zhijing Yin, Rui Zeppelini, Douglas Crowther, Thomas Eisenhauer, Nico Scheu, Stefan |
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Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails |
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Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails |
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Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails |
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ftmuseumnhn:oai:HAL:hal-03979986v2 2024-06-23T07:57:16+00:00 Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails Potapov, Anton Guerra, Carlos van den Hoogen, Johan Babenko, Anatoly Bellini, Bruno Berg, Matty Chown, Steven Deharveng, Louis Kováč, Ľubomír Kuznetsova, Natalia Ponge, Jean-François Potapov, Mikhail Russell, David Alexandre, Douglas Alatalo, Juha Arbea, Javier Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa Bernava, Verónica Bokhorst, Stef Bolger, Thomas Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela Chauvat, Matthieu Chen, Ting-Wen Chomel, Mathilde Classen, Aimee Cortet, Jerome Čuchta, Peter Manuela de la Pedrosa, Ana Ferreira, Susana Fiera, Cristina Filser, Juliane Franken, Oscar Fujii, Saori Koudji, Essivi Gagnon Gao, Meixiang Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit Gomez-Pamies, Diego Greve, Michelle Tanya Handa, I. Heiniger, Charlène Holmstrup, Martin Homet, Pablo Ivask, Mari Janion-Scheepers, Charlene Jochum, Malte Joimel, Sophie Claudia S. Jorge, Bruna Jucevica, Edite Ferlian, Olga Iuñes de Oliveira Filho, Luís Carlos Klauberg-Filho, Osmar Baretta, Dilmar Krab, Eveline Kuu, Annely de Lima, Estevam Lin, Dunmei Lindo, Zoe Liu, Amy Lu, Jing-Zhong Luciañez, María José Marx, Michael McCary, Matthew Minor, Maria Nakamori, Taizo Negri, Ilaria Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl Palacios-Vargas, José Pollierer, Melanie Querner, Pascal Raschmanová, Natália Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz Raymond-Léonard, Laura Rousseau, Laurent Saifutdinov, Ruslan Salmon, Sandrine Sayer, Emma Scheunemann, Nicole Scholz, Cornelia Seeber, Julia Shveenkova, Yulia Stebaeva, Sophya Sterzynska, Maria Sun, Xin Susanti, Winda Taskaeva, Anastasia Thakur, Madhav Tsiafouli, Maria Turnbull, Matthew Twala, Mthokozisi N. Uvarov, Alexei Venier, Lisa Widenfalk, Lina Winck, Bruna Winkler, Daniel Wu, Donghui Xie, Zhijing Yin, Rui Zeppelini, Douglas Crowther, Thomas Eisenhauer, Nico Scheu, Stefan Johann-Friedrich Blumenbach Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS) German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Leipzig University / Universität Leipzig Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zürich (D-USYS) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich) Department of Botany and Zoology, Biosciences Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRGS) Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Community and Conservation Ecology Group Groningen Université de Groningen Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA) Department of Zoology, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia Institute of Biology and Chemistry, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russia Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution (MECADEV) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Soil Zoology, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Görlitz, Germany Department of Soil Science, Centre for Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Santa Catarina State University (UDUESC Lages), Lages, SC, Brazil (UDUESC) Environmental Science Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar Department of Sciences, CEPA Camargo, Astillero, Spain Visva Bharati University, Bengal, India Administración de Parques Nacionales, San Antonio, Argentina School of Biology and Environmental Science - University College of Dublin University College Dublin Dublin (UCD) UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, México Etude et Compréhension de la biodiversité (ECODIV) Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN) Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU) Institute of Entomology České Budějovice (BIOLOGY CENTRE CAS) Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BIOLOGY CENTRE CAS) Czech Academy of Sciences Prague (CAS)-Czech Academy of Sciences Prague (CAS) FiBL France Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Zoology, The University of Michigan Research Museums Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108-2228, USA Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) Departmento de Biología Zoología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy Department of General and Theoretical Ecology, University of Bremen University of Bremen University of Groningen Groningen Department of Coastal Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, ‘t Horntje, the Netherlands Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) Université du Québec à Montréal = University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) 2023-01-20 https://hal.science/hal-03979986 https://hal.science/hal-03979986v2/document https://hal.science/hal-03979986v2/file/Potapov%20et%20al.%202023.pdf https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6 en eng HAL CCSD Nature Publishing Group info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/36750574 hal-03979986 https://hal.science/hal-03979986 https://hal.science/hal-03979986v2/document https://hal.science/hal-03979986v2/file/Potapov%20et%20al.%202023.pdf doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6 PUBMED: 36750574 WOS: 001035860000001 http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/licences/publicDomain/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 2041-1723 EISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications https://hal.science/hal-03979986 Nature Communications, 2023, 14 (1), pp.674. ⟨10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6⟩ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36216-6 [SDE]Environmental Sciences [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftmuseumnhn https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6 2024-06-10T23:56:38Z International audience Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil arthropods regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of springtail diversity and density, and how these relate to energy fluxes remains unknown. Here, using a global dataset representing 2470 sites, we estimate the total soil springtail biomass at 27.5 megatons carbon, which is threefold higher than wild terrestrial vertebrates, and record peak densities up to 2 million individuals per square meter in the tundra. Despite a 20-fold biomass difference between the tundra and the tropics, springtail energy use (community metabolism) remains similar across the latitudinal gradient, owing to the changes in temperature with latitude. Neither springtail density nor community metabolism is predicted by local species richness, which is high in the tropics, but comparably high in some temperate forests and even tundra. Changes in springtail activity may emerge from latitudinal gradients in temperature, predation and resource limitation in soil communities. Contrasting relationships of biomass, diversity and activity of springtail communities with temperature suggest that climate warming will alter fundamental soil biodiversity metrics in different directions, potentially restructuring terrestrial food webs and affecting soil functioning. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra Springtail Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHM): HAL Nature Communications 14 1 |