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Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

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  • Johan Hoogen

    (Institute of Integrative Biology)

  • Stefan Geisen

    (Institute of Integrative Biology
    Netherlands Institute of Ecology)

  • Devin Routh

    (Institute of Integrative Biology)

  • Howard Ferris

    (University of California)

  • Walter Traunspurger

    (Bielefeld University)

  • David A. Wardle

    (Nanyang Technological University)

  • Ron G. M. Goede

    (Wageningen University & Research)

  • Byron J. Adams

    (Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Monte L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University)

  • Wasim Ahmad

    (Aligarh Muslim University)

  • Walter S. Andriuzzi

    (Colorado State University)

  • Richard D. Bardgett

    (The University of Manchester)

  • Michael Bonkowski

    (University of Cologne and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS))

  • Raquel Campos-Herrera

    (Universidad de La Rioja-Gobierno de La Rioja)

  • Juvenil E. Cares

    (University of Brasília)

  • Tancredi Caruso

    (Queen’s University of Belfast)

  • Larissa Brito Caixeta

    (University of Brasília)

  • Xiaoyun Chen

    (Nanjing Agricultural University)

  • Sofia R. Costa

    (University of Minho)

  • Rachel Creamer

    (Wageningen University & Research)

  • José Mauro da Cunha Castro

    (Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Trópico Semiárido)

  • Marie Dam

    (Zealand Institute of Business and Technology)

  • Djibril Djigal

    (Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles/CDH)

  • Miguel Escuer

    (Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, CSIC)

  • Bryan S. Griffiths

    (Crop and Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC)

  • Carmen Gutiérrez

    (Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, CSIC)

  • Karin Hohberg

    (Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz)

  • Daria Kalinkina

    (Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • Paul Kardol

    (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

  • Alan Kergunteuil

    (University of Neuchâtel)

  • Gerard Korthals

    (Netherlands Institute of Ecology)

  • Valentyna Krashevska

    (University of Göttingen)

  • Alexey A. Kudrin

    (Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • Qi Li

    (Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Wenju Liang

    (Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Matthew Magilton

    (Queen’s University of Belfast)

  • Mariette Marais

    (Plant Health and Protection)

  • José Antonio Rodríguez Martín

    (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria)

  • Elizaveta Matveeva

    (Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • El Hassan Mayad

    (Ibn Zohr University)

  • Christian Mulder

    (University of Catania)

  • Peter Mullin

    (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

  • Roy Neilson

    (The James Hutton Institute)

  • T. A. Duong Nguyen

    (University of Cologne and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS)
    Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology)

  • Uffe N. Nielsen

    (Western Sydney University)

  • Hiroaki Okada

    (Division of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO)

  • Juan Emilio Palomares Rius

    (Spanish National Research Council)

  • Kaiwen Pan

    (Center for Ecological Studies, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Vlada Peneva

    (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

  • Loïc Pellissier

    (Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science
    Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL)

  • Julio Carlos Pereira da Silva

    (Universidade Federal de Lavras)

  • Camille Pitteloud

    (Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science)

  • Thomas O. Powers

    (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

  • Kirsten Powers

    (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

  • Casper W. Quist

    (Wageningen University
    Wageningen University)

  • Sergio Rasmann

    (University of Neuchâtel)

  • Sara Sánchez Moreno

    (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria)

  • Stefan Scheu

    (University of Göttingen
    University of Göttingen)

  • Heikki Setälä

    (University of Helsinki)

  • Anna Sushchuk

    (Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • Alexei V. Tiunov

    (Russian Academy of Sciences)

  • Jean Trap

    (University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro)

  • Wim Putten

    (Netherlands Institute of Ecology
    Wageningen University)

  • Mette Vestergård

    (Aarhus University)

  • Cecile Villenave

    (University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro
    ELISOL Environnement)

  • Lieven Waeyenberge

    (Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food)

  • Diana H. Wall

    (Colorado State University)

  • Rutger Wilschut

    (Netherlands Institute of Ecology)

  • Daniel G. Wright

    (Lancaster Environment Centre)

  • Jiue-in Yang

    (National Taiwan University)

  • Thomas Ward Crowther

    (Institute of Integrative Biology)

Abstract

Soil organisms are a crucial part of the terrestrial biosphere. Despite their importance for ecosystem functioning, few quantitative, spatially explicit models of the active belowground community currently exist. In particular, nematodes are the most abundant animals on Earth, filling all trophic levels in the soil food web. Here we use 6,759 georeferenced samples to generate a mechanistic understanding of the patterns of the global abundance of nematodes in the soil and the composition of their functional groups. The resulting maps show that 4.4 ± 0.64 × 1020 nematodes (with a total biomass of approximately 0.3 gigatonnes) inhabit surface soils across the world, with higher abundances in sub-Arctic regions (38% of total) than in temperate (24%) or tropical (21%) regions. Regional variations in these global trends also provide insights into local patterns of soil fertility and functioning. These high-resolution models provide the first steps towards representing soil ecological processes in global biogeochemical models and will enable the prediction of elemental cycling under current and future climate scenarios.

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  • Johan Hoogen & Stefan Geisen & Devin Routh & Howard Ferris & Walter Traunspurger & David A. Wardle & Ron G. M. Goede & Byron J. Adams & Wasim Ahmad & Walter S. Andriuzzi & Richard D. Bardgett & Michae, 2019. "Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale," Nature, Nature, vol. 572(7768), pages 194-198, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:572:y:2019:i:7768:d:10.1038_s41586-019-1418-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6
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