Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

Johan van den Hoogen; Stefan Geisen; Devin Routh; Howard Ferris; Walter Traunspurger; David A. Wardle; Ron G. M. de Goede; Byron J. Adams; Wasim Ahmad; Walter S. Andriuzzi; Richard D. Bardgett; Michael Bonkowski; Raquel Campos-Herrera; Juvenil E. Cares; Tancredi Caruso; Larissa de Brito Caixeta; Xiaoyun Chen; Sofia R. Costa; Rachel Creamer; José Mauro da Cunha Castro; Marie Dam; Djibril Djigal; Miguel Escuer; Bryan S. Griffiths; Carmen Gutiérrez; Karin Hohberg; Daria Kalinkina; Paul Kardol; Alan Kergunteuil; Gerard Korthals; Valentyna Krashevska; Alexey A. Kudrin; Qi Li; Wenju Liang; Matthew Magilton; Mariette Marais; José Antonio Rodríguez Martín; Elizaveta Matveeva; El Hassan Mayad; Christian Mulder; Peter Mullin; Roy Neilson; T. A. Duong Nguyen; Uffe N. Nielsen; null et al

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Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

Johan van den Hoogen, Stefan Geisen, Devin Routh, Howard Ferris, Walter Traunspurger, David A. Wardle, Ron G. M. de Goede, Byron J. Adams, Wasim Ahmad, Walter S. Andriuzzi, Richard D. Bardgett, Michael Bonkowski, Raquel Campos-Herrera, Juvenil E. Cares, Tancredi Caruso, Larissa de Brito Caixeta, Xiaoyun Chen, Sofia R. Costa, Rachel Creamer, José Mauro da Cunha CastroMarie Dam, Djibril Djigal, Miguel Escuer, Bryan S. Griffiths, Carmen Gutiérrez, Karin Hohberg, Daria Kalinkina, Paul Kardol, Alan Kergunteuil, Gerard Korthals, Valentyna Krashevska, Alexey A. Kudrin, Qi Li, Wenju Liang, Matthew Magilton, Mariette Marais, José Antonio Rodríguez Martín, Elizaveta Matveeva, El Hassan Mayad, Christian Mulder, Peter Mullin, Roy Neilson, T. A. Duong Nguyen, Uffe N. Nielsen, et al

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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 Â± 0.64 Ã— 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	194-198
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature
Volume	572
Issue number	7768
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6
Publication status	Published - 2019

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van den Hoogen, J., Geisen, S., Routh, D., Ferris, H., Traunspurger, W., Wardle, D. A., de Goede, R. G. M., Adams, B. J., Ahmad, W., Andriuzzi, W. S., Bardgett, R. D., Bonkowski, M., Campos-Herrera, R., Cares, J. E., Caruso, T., de Brito Caixeta, L., Chen, X., Costa, S. R., Creamer, R., ... et al (2019). Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale. Nature, 572(7768), 194-198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6

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Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

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