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In this perspectives paper, we highlight some of the major knowledge gaps that should be prioritized in soil ecological research. These research priorities were compiled based on an online survey of 32 editors of Pedobiologia - Journal of Soil Ecology. These editors work at universities and research centers in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.The questions were categorized into four themes: (1) soil biodiversity and biogeography, (2) interactions and the functioning of ecosystems, (3) global change and soil management, and (4) new directions. The respondents identified priorities that may be achievable in the near future, as well as several that are currently achievable but remain open. While some of the identified barriers to progress were technological in nature, many respondents cited a need for substantial leadership and goodwill among members of the soil ecology research community, including the need for multi-institutional partnerships, and had substantial concerns regarding the loss of taxonomic expertise.", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "aboveground-belowground interactions", "Biologia", "Aboveground-belowground interactions", "910", "soil processes", "soil microbial ecology", "Microbial ecology", "Novel environments", "Soil food web", "11. Sustainability", "Climate change", "0503 Soil Sciences", "Global change", "biodiversity", "ecosystem management", "2. 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Therefore, the impact of soil water and integrated fertilization after eight years on prokaryotic microbial communities in different compartments of root zone and their association with wheat nitrogen (N) absorption and yield were investigated. The results showed that compared with fertilization treatments (F), water regimes (W) more drastically modulated the prokaryotic microbial community structure and diversity in bulk soil, rhizosphere and endosphere. The increase of irrigation improved the prokaryotic diversity in the rhizosphere and endosphere while decreased the diversity in the bulk soil. Application of organic fertilizers significantly improved soil organic matter (SOM) and nutrient contents, increased rhizosphere and endophytic prokaryotic microbial diversity, and elevated the relative abundance of aerobic ammonia oxidation and nitrification-related functional microorganisms in rhizosphere and endosphere. Increasing irrigation elevated the relative abundance of functional microorganisms related to aerobic ammonia oxidation and nitrification in the rhizosphere and endosphere. Soil water content (SWC) and NH4+-N as well as NO3\u2212-N were key predictors of prokaryotic microbial community composition under W and F treatments, respectively. Appropriate application of irrigation and organic fertilizers increased the relative abundance of some beneficial bacteria such as Flavobacterium. Water and fertilization treatments regulated the prokaryotic microbial communities of bulk soil, rhizosphere and endosphere by altering SWC and SOM, and provided evidence for the modulation of prokaryotic microorganisms to promote nitrogen uptake and wheat yield under long-term irrigation and fertilization. Conclusively, the addition of organic manure (50 %) with inorganic fertilizers (50 %) and reduced amount of irrigation (pre-sowing and jointing-period irrigation) decreased the application amount of chemical fertilizers and water, while increased SOM and nutrient content, improved prokaryotic diversity, and changed prokaryotic microbial community structure in the wheat root zone, resulting in enhanced nutrient uptake and wheat yield.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Yield", "Microorganism", "Microbial population biology", "Nitrogen", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Plant Science", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes", "Soil water", "Genetics", "Fertilizers", "Biology", "Irrigation", "Soil Microbiology", "Triticum", "2. 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Here we determine soil microbial responses to contrasting types of litter inputs (leaf vs. fine woody litter) and nitrogen (N) deposition by conducting a multi-year litter manipulation and N addition experiment in a mixed-wood forest. We found significantly higher soil organic C, total N, microbial biomass C (MBC) and N (MBN), microbial activity (MR) and activities of four soil extracellular enzymes, including \uffce\uffb2-glucosidase (BG), N-acetyl-\uffce\uffb2-glucosaminidase (NAG), phenol oxidase (PO) and peroxidase (PER), as well as greater total bacteria biomass and relative abundance of gram-negative bacteria (G-) community, in top soils of plots with presence of leaf litter than of those without litter or with presence of only fine woody litter. No apparent additive or interactive effects of N addition were observed in this study. The occurrence of more labile leaf litter stimulated G-, which may facilitate microbial community growth and soil C stabilization as inferred by findings in literature. A continued treatment with contrasting types of litter inputs is likely to result in divergence in soil microbial community structure and function.</p>", "keywords": ["Biomass (ecology)", "China", "Biogeochemical Cycling of Nutrients in Aquatic Ecosystems", "Microbial population biology", "Nitrogen", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Forests", "Nitrogen cycle", "Article", "Plant litter", "Nutrient cycle", "Environmental science", "Microbial Ecology", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Soil biology", "Litter", "Soil water", "Genetics", "Environmental Chemistry", "Biomass", "Forest floor", "Biology", "Soil Microbiology", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "Ecology", "Bacteria", "Marine Microbial Diversity and Biogeography", "Life Sciences", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. 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Yet, despite their importance, the global biogeography and ecological drivers of soil micronutrients remain virtually unknown, limiting our capacity to anticipate abrupt unexpected changes in soil micronutrients in the face of climate change. Here, we analyzed &gt;1300 topsoil samples to examine the global distribution of six metallic micronutrients (Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, Co and Ni) across all continents, climates and vegetation types. We found that warmer arid and tropical ecosystems, present in the least developed countries, sustain the lowest contents of multiple soil micronutrients. We further provide evidence that temperature increases may potentially result in abrupt and simultaneous reductions in the content of multiple soil micronutrients when a temperature threshold of 12\uffe2\uff80\uff9314\uffc2\uffb0C is crossed, which may be occurring on 3% of the planet over the next century. Altogether, our findings provide fundamental understanding of the global distribution of soil micronutrients, with direct implications for the maintenance of ecosystem functioning, rangeland management and food production in the warmest and poorest regions of the planet.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts", "Soil ecology", "Climate Change", "metals", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Environmental Drivers", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Soil Pollutants", "Climate change", "Global biogeography", "Micronutrients", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "1. No poverty", "Climate change; Environmental drivers; Global biogeography; Metals; Micronutrients; Soil ecology", "Qu\u00edmica", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie", "Soil Ecology", "15. Life on land", "soil ecology", "climate change", "Global Biogeography", "Metals", "13. 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High\uffe2\uff80\uff90elevation species are threatened by temperature increases and the upward migration of lowlands species. Improving our understanding of successional processes after glacier retreat becomes urgent, especially in the tropics, where glacier shrinkage is particularly fast. We examined the successional patterns of aquatic invertebrates, ground beetles, terrestrial plants, soil eukaryotes (algae, invertebrates, plants) in an equatorial glacier foreland (Carihuairazo, Ecuador). Based on both taxonomical identification and eDNA metabarcoding, we analysed the effects of both environmental conditions and age of deglacierization on community composition. Except for algae, diversity increased with time since deglacierization, especially among passive dispersers, suggesting that dispersal was a key driver structuring the glacier foreland succession. Spatial \uffce\uffb2\uffe2\uff80\uff90diversity was mainly attributed to nestedness for aquatic invertebrates, terrestrial plants and soil algae, likely linked to low environmental variability within the studied glacier foreland; and to turnover for soil invertebrates, suggesting competition exclusion at the oldest successional stage. Pioneer communities were dominated by species exhibiting flexible feeding strategies and high dispersal ability (mainly transported by wind), probably colonising from lower altitudes, or from the glacier in the case of algae. Overall, glacier foreland colonisation in the tropics exhibit common characteristics to higher latitudes. High\uffe2\uff80\uff90elevation species are nevertheless threatened, as the imminent extinction of many tropical glaciers will affect species associated to glacier\uffe2\uff80\uff90influenced habitats but also prevent cold\uffe2\uff80\uff90adapted and hygrophilous species from using these habitats as refuges in a warming world.</p>", "keywords": ["Colonization", "[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", "550", "Early succession", "glacier retreat", "Sociology", "[SDV.EE.ECO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment/Ecosystems", "Environmental DNA Sequencing", "Glacier", "Ecology", "Geography", "early succession", "Life Sciences", "Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "Biodiversity", "[SDV.BV.BOT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics", "Threatened species", "FOS: Sociology", "Multiple-taxa", "multiple-taxa", "Habitat", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Physical Sciences", "environment/Ecosystems", "570", "Physical geography", "Population", "Global Diversity of Microbial Eukaryotes and Their Evolution", "[SDV.BV.BOT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Vegetal Biology/Botanics", "Ecological succession", "Biochemistry", " Genetics and Molecular Biology", "Biological dispersal", "[SDV.BID.SPT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", " Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "equatorial glacier foreland", "Equatorial glacier foreland", "Glacier retreat", "Molecular Biology", "Biology", "Demography", "Marine Microbial Diversity and Biogeography", "Colonisation", "South America", "15. 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We conducted a cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90biome survey including 83 locations across six continents to advance our understanding of the ecological preferences and vulnerabilities of the diversity of dominant and functionally important soil invertebrate taxa, including nematodes, arachnids and rotifers. The diversity of invertebrates was analyzed through amplicon sequencing. Vegetation and climate drove the diversity and dominant taxa of soil invertebrates. Our results suggest that declines in forest cover and plant diversity, and reductions in plant production associated with increases in aridity, can result in reductions of the diversity of soil invertebrates in a drier and more managed world. We further developed global atlases of the diversity of these important soil invertebrates, which were cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90validated using an independent database. Our study advances the current knowledge of the ecological preferences and vulnerabilities of the diversity and presence of functionally important soil invertebrates in soils from across the globe. This information is fundamental for improving and prioritizing conservation efforts of soil genetic resources and management policies.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "Evolutionary Biology", "0303 health sciences", "Nematoda", "Life on Land", "Rotifera", "Biological Sciences", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "soil invertebrates", "Invertebrates", "plant diversity", "diversity", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "climate change", "aridity", "13. 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Recent technological advances have exponentially increased our knowledge concerning the global ecological distributions of microbial communities across space and time and have provided evidence for their contribution to ecosystem functions. However, major knowledge gaps in soil biogeography remain to be addressed over the coming years as technology and research questions continue to evolve.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "future perspectives", "0303 health sciences", "soil microbial biogeography", "recent advances", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "3. Good health", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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Biogeographic responses to geological phenomena including plate tectonics, as well as to past and present climate and habitat distributions, are the main factors determining the present distribution of earthworm families. A total of ca. 5,738 species/subspecies (5,406 species and 332 unique subspecies; i.e., not counting the nomino-typical subspecies) belonging to 23 families (including one non-crassiclitellate family: Moniligastridae) are currently recognized worldwide, of which three families (Tritogeniidae and Kazimierzidae from Southern Africa and Arecoidae, a new family from Brazil described herein), 35 genera and close to 1200 new taxa (including subspecies) were described in the 21st century. Nonetheless, the large number of still undescribed species will likely increase this value to well over 8,000 species. Ten families are monospecific and/or monogeneric and have a mostly restricted distribution. On the other hand, more than 87 widespread cosmopolitan species have been catalogued, some of them with important invasive potential, belonging mainly to families Lumbricidae, Acanthodrilidae, Benhamiidae, Megascolecidae, Rhinodrilidae and Ocnerodrilidae. Taxonomic housekeeping was performed for the preoccupied Rhinodrilidae genus Tairona Righi \u2013 herein substituted by Taironina nom. nov., and Guarani camaqua Rodr\u00edguez &amp; Lima was reinstated and removed from synonymy with Criodrilus lacuum Hoffmeister, 1845, resulting in a wider definition of the Almidae family. Furthermore, Amynthas maximalis nom. nov. is proposed herein as a substitution name for the preoccupied name Amynthas maximus Qiu &amp; Dong, 2019, and Arecoidae is proposed herein as a new monotypic family for the aquamegadrile species Areco reco Righi, Ayres &amp; Bittencourt, 1978.   \u00a0</p></article>", "keywords": ["Komarekionidae", "Tritogeniidae", "[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Kynotidae", "[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", "Annelida", "590", "Lutodrilidae", "Opisthopora", "Ocnerodrilidae", "Haplotaxida", "Eudrilidae", "Criodrilidae", "Sparganophilidae", "Glossoscolecidae", "[SDV.BID.SPT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", " Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "Crassiclitellata", "Animalia", "Earthworms", "Animals", "Arecoidae", "Almidae", "Oligochaeta", "Diporodrilidae", "Ecosystem", "Taxonomy", "Tumakidae", "Biwadrilidae", "Invasive species", "Acanthodrilidae", "Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "Biodiversity", "Benhamiidae", "Microchaetidae", "Rhinodrilidae", "Kazimierzidae", "Biogeography", "Hormogastridae", "Megascolecidae", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "Weevils", "Clitellata", "Moniligastridae", "Lumbricidae", "Megadriles"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Zootaxa", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33", "name": "item", "description": "10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.11646/zootaxa.5255.1.33"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0038858", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-27T16:20:12Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2012-06-11", "title": "Decline In Topsoil Microbial Quotient, Fungal Abundance And C Utilization Efficiency Of Rice Paddies Under Heavy Metal Pollution Across South China", "description": "Open AccessLos suelos agr\u00edcolas han estado cada vez m\u00e1s sujetos a la contaminaci\u00f3n por metales pesados en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, los impactos en la estructura y actividad de la comunidad microbiana del suelo de los suelos de campo a\u00fan no se han caracterizado bien. En 2009 se recolectaron muestras de tierra vegetal de campos de arroz contaminados con metales pesados (PS) y sus campos de fondo (BGS) en cuatro sitios del sur de China. Los cambios con la contaminaci\u00f3n met\u00e1lica en relaci\u00f3n con el BGS en el tama\u00f1o y la estructura de la comunidad de los microorganismos del suelo se examinaron con m\u00faltiples ensayos microbiol\u00f3gicos de medici\u00f3n de carbono de biomasa (MBC) y nitr\u00f3geno (MBN), recuento en placa de colonias cultivables y an\u00e1lisis de \u00e1cidos grasos fosfol\u00edpidos (PLFA) junto con el perfil de electroforesis en gel de gradiente desnaturalizante (DGGE) del gen de ARNr 16S y ARNr 18S y ensayo de PCR en tiempo real. Adem\u00e1s, se llev\u00f3 a cabo una incubaci\u00f3n de laboratorio de 7 d\u00edas a una temperatura constante de 25 \u00b0C para realizar un seguimiento adicional de los cambios en la actividad metab\u00f3lica. Si bien la disminuci\u00f3n de la contaminaci\u00f3n por metales en MBC y MBN, as\u00ed como en el tama\u00f1o de la poblaci\u00f3n cultivable, el contenido total de PLFA y el n\u00famero de bandas DGGE de bacterias no se observaron de manera significativa y consistente, de hecho se observ\u00f3 una reducci\u00f3n significativa de la contaminaci\u00f3n por metales en el cociente microbiano, en el tama\u00f1o de la poblaci\u00f3n f\u00fangica cultivable y en la proporci\u00f3n de PLFA f\u00fangicos a bacterianos de manera consistente en todos los sitios en una medida que var\u00eda de 6% a 74%. Adem\u00e1s, se observ\u00f3 un aumento consistentemente significativo en el cociente metab\u00f3lico de hasta un 68% bajo contaminaci\u00f3n en todos los sitios. Estas observaciones apoyaron un cambio de la comunidad microbiana con disminuci\u00f3n en su abundancia, disminuci\u00f3n en la proporci\u00f3n de hongos y, por lo tanto, en la eficiencia de utilizaci\u00f3n de C bajo contaminaci\u00f3n en los suelos. Adem\u00e1s, las proporciones de cociente microbiano, de hongos a bacterias y qCO2 son mejores indicativas de los impactos de los metales pesados en la estructura y actividad de la comunidad microbiana. Los efectos potenciales de estos cambios en el ciclo del carbono y la producci\u00f3n de CO2 en los arrozales contaminados merecen m\u00e1s estudios de campo.", "keywords": ["Microbial population biology", "Colony Count", " Microbial", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Sociology", "Soil water", "Soil Pollutants", "Soil Microbiology", "2. 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Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0038858"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0038858", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0038858", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0038858"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2012-06-11T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.17169/refubium-31202", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-27T16:20:37Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-05-21", "title": "Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties", "description": "Abstract<p>Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.</p>", "keywords": ["2401.17 Invertebrados", "0301 basic medicine", "592", "Data Descriptor", "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology", "earthworms", "Data Descriptor ; Biodiversity ; Biogeography ; Community ecology", "Plan_S-Compliant-OA", "https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6", "[SDV.EE.ECO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology", " environment/Ecosystems", "Diversity data", "Biomass", "S Agriculture (General)", "Ekologia ja evoluutiobiologia", "[SDV.SA.SDS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "biodiversity", "2. 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Here we take advantage of a relatively young and dynamic oceanic island to advance our understanding of eco-evolutionary processes driving community assembly within soil mesofauna. Using whole organism community DNA (wocDNA) metabarcoding and the recently developed metaMATE pipeline, we have generated spatially explicit and reliable haplotype-level DNA sequence data for soil mesofaunal assemblages sampled across the four main habitats within the island of Tenerife. Community ecological and metaphylogeographic analyses have been performed at multiple levels of genetic similarity, from haplotypes to species and supraspecific groupings. Broadly consistent patterns of local-scale species richness across different insular habitats have been found, whereas local insular richness is lower than in continental settings. Our results reveal an important role for niche conservatism as a driver of insular community assembly of soil mesofauna, with only limited evidence for habitat shifts promoting diversification. Furthermore, support is found for a fundamental role of habitat in the assembly of soil mesofauna, where habitat specialism is mainly due to colonisation and the establishment of preadapted species. Hierarchical patterns of distance decay at the community level and metaphylogeographical analyses support a pattern of geographic structuring over limited spatial scales, from the level of haplotypes through to species and lineages, as expected for taxa with strong dispersal limitations. Our results demonstrate the potential for wocDNA metabarcoding to advance our understanding of biodiversity.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "570", "island biogeography", "500", "Original Articles", "Biodiversity", "DNA", "15. 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Life underwater", "Acari", "Ecosystem", "mesofauna"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.22541/au.164212487.73179731/v1"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Molecular%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.22541/au.164212487.73179731/v1", "name": "item", "description": "10.22541/au.164212487.73179731/v1", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.22541/au.164212487.73179731/v1"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-14T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/336842", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-07-27T16:25:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-19", "title": "Environmental drivers of the geographical distribution of methanotrophs: Insights from a national survey", "description": "Closed AccessM.D-B. acknowledges support from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 under REA grant agreement n\u00b0 702057. The B.K.S. team was supported by Australian Research Council grants (DP 170104634).", "keywords": ["PmoA", "2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "0303 health sciences", "Spatial modelling", "spatial ecology", "niche (ecology)", "15. Life on land", "333", "03 medical and health sciences", "methanotrophs", "Methanotrophs", "Mapping", "Biogeography", "Niche partitioning", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "11. 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These changes create abiotic stresses, including desiccation and nutrient limitation, which act on microbes. However, our understanding of the responses of microbial communities to co-occurring climate change drivers is limited. We surveyed soil bacterial and fungal diversity and composition after a 1-year warming and altered precipitation manipulation in the Tibetan plateau alpine grassland. In isolation, warming and decreased precipitation treatments each had no significant effects on soil bacterial community structure; however, in combination of both treatments altered bacterial community structure (p = 0.03). The main effect of altered precipitation specifically impacted the relative abundances of Bacteroidetes and Gammaproteobacteria compared to the control, while the main effect of warming impacted the relative abundance of Betaproteobacteria. In contrast, the fungal community had no significant response to the treatments after 1-year. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), we found bacterial community composition was positively related to soil moisture. Our results indicate that short-term climate change could cause changes in soil bacterial community through taxonomic shifts. Our work provides new insights into immediate soil microbial responses to short-term stressors acting on an ecosystem that is particularly sensitive to global climate change.", "keywords": ["Abiotic component", "Microbial population biology", "Climate Change", "Soil Science", "Precipitation", "soil microbial community structure", "Microbiology", "Mathematical analysis", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Meteorology", "11. Sustainability", "FOS: Mathematics", "Genetics", "Climate change", "alpine grassland", "Biology", "Ecosystem", "2. 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Climate action", "FOS: Biological sciences", "Environmental Science", "Physical Sciences", "soil moisture", "Soil Carbon Dynamics and Nutrient Cycling in Ecosystems", "Mathematics"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Microbiology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01032"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2016-06-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10261/282703", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-27T16:25:52Z", "type": "Report", "title": "Soils in warmer & less developed countries have less micronutrients globally", "description": "Open AccessPeer reviewed", "keywords": ["Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts", "Soil ecology", "Metals", "Climate change", "Global biogeography", "Environmental drivers", "Micronutrients", "http://metadata.un.org/sdg/13"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10261/282703"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10261/282703", "name": "item", "description": "10261/282703", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10261/282703"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2890570129", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Closed Access", "updated": "2026-07-27T16:27:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-09-19", "title": "Environmental drivers of the geographical distribution of methanotrophs: Insights from a national survey", "description": "Closed AccessM.D-B. acknowledges support from the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme H2020-MSCA-IF-2016 under REA grant agreement n\u00b0 702057. The B.K.S. team was supported by Australian Research Council grants (DP 170104634).", "keywords": ["PmoA", "0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "Spatial modelling", "spatial ecology", "niche (ecology)", "15. Life on land", "333", "03 medical and health sciences", "methanotrophs", "Methanotrophs", "Mapping", "Biogeography", "Niche partitioning", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "11. 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We conducted a cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90biome survey including 83 locations across six continents to advance our understanding of the ecological preferences and vulnerabilities of the diversity of dominant and functionally important soil invertebrate taxa, including nematodes, arachnids and rotifers. The diversity of invertebrates was analyzed through amplicon sequencing. Vegetation and climate drove the diversity and dominant taxa of soil invertebrates. Our results suggest that declines in forest cover and plant diversity, and reductions in plant production associated with increases in aridity, can result in reductions of the diversity of soil invertebrates in a drier and more managed world. We further developed global atlases of the diversity of these important soil invertebrates, which were cross\uffe2\uff80\uff90validated using an independent database. Our study advances the current knowledge of the ecological preferences and vulnerabilities of the diversity and presence of functionally important soil invertebrates in soils from across the globe. This information is fundamental for improving and prioritizing conservation efforts of soil genetic resources and management policies.</p", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0301 basic medicine", "Evolutionary Biology", "0303 health sciences", "Nematoda", "Life on Land", "Rotifera", "Biological Sciences", "Forests", "15. Life on land", "soil invertebrates", "Invertebrates", "plant diversity", "diversity", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "climate change", "aridity", "13. Climate action", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Arachnida", "Animals", "biogeography", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt6m6554wg/qt6m6554wg.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/1959.7/uws:64112"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Molecular%20Ecology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "1959.7/uws:64112", "name": "item", "description": "1959.7/uws:64112", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/1959.7/uws:64112"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-03T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "1959.7/uws:77768", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-07-27T16:26:36Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-04-20", "title": "Soil Microbial Biogeography in a Changing World: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Soil microbial communities are fundamental to maintaining key soil processes associated with litter decomposition, nutrient cycling, and plant productivity and are thus integral to human well-being. Recent technological advances have exponentially increased our knowledge concerning the global ecological distributions of microbial communities across space and time and have provided evidence for their contribution to ecosystem functions. However, major knowledge gaps in soil biogeography remain to be addressed over the coming years as technology and research questions continue to evolve.</p></article>", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "2. Zero hunger", "future perspectives", "0303 health sciences", "soil microbial biogeography", "recent advances", "15. Life on land", "Microbiology", "QR1-502", "3. Good health", "03 medical and health sciences", "13. 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Yet, despite their importance, the global biogeography and ecological drivers of soil micronutrients remain virtually unknown, limiting our capacity to anticipate abrupt unexpected changes in soil micronutrients in the face of climate change. Here, we analyzed &gt;1300 topsoil samples to examine the global distribution of six metallic micronutrients (Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, Co and Ni) across all continents, climates and vegetation types. We found that warmer arid and tropical ecosystems, present in the least developed countries, sustain the lowest contents of multiple soil micronutrients. We further provide evidence that temperature increases may potentially result in abrupt and simultaneous reductions in the content of multiple soil micronutrients when a temperature threshold of 12\uffe2\uff80\uff9314\uffc2\uffb0C is crossed, which may be occurring on 3% of the planet over the next century. Altogether, our findings provide fundamental understanding of the global distribution of soil micronutrients, with direct implications for the maintenance of ecosystem functioning, rangeland management and food production in the warmest and poorest regions of the planet.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "570", "Soil ecology", "Climate Change", "metals", "Soil", "03 medical and health sciences", "Environmental Drivers", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "Soil Pollutants", "Climate change", "Global biogeography", "Micronutrients", "Ecosystem", "2. Zero hunger", "0303 health sciences", "1. No poverty", "Climate change; Environmental drivers; Global biogeography; Metals; Micronutrients; Soil ecology", "Qu\u00edmica", "500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie::570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie", "Soil Ecology", "15. Life on land", "soil ecology", "climate change", "Global Biogeography", "Metals", "13. 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Biogeographic responses to geological phenomena including plate tectonics, as well as to past and present climate and habitat distributions, are the main factors determining the present distribution of earthworm families. A total of ca. 5,738 species/subspecies (5,406 species and 332 unique subspecies; i.e., not counting the nomino-typical subspecies) belonging to 23 families (including one non-crassiclitellate family: Moniligastridae) are currently recognized worldwide, of which three families (Tritogeniidae and Kazimierzidae from Southern Africa and Arecoidae, a new family from Brazil described herein), 35 genera and close to 1200 new taxa (including subspecies) were described in the 21st century. Nonetheless, the large number of still undescribed species will likely increase this value to well over 8,000 species. Ten families are monospecific and/or monogeneric and have a mostly restricted distribution. On the other hand, more than 87 widespread cosmopolitan species have been catalogued, some of them with important invasive potential, belonging mainly to families Lumbricidae, Acanthodrilidae, Benhamiidae, Megascolecidae, Rhinodrilidae and Ocnerodrilidae. Taxonomic housekeeping was performed for the preoccupied Rhinodrilidae genus Tairona Righi \u2013 herein substituted by Taironina nom. nov., and Guarani camaqua Rodr\u00edguez &amp; Lima was reinstated and removed from synonymy with Criodrilus lacuum Hoffmeister, 1845, resulting in a wider definition of the Almidae family. Furthermore, Amynthas maximalis nom. nov. is proposed herein as a substitution name for the preoccupied name Amynthas maximus Qiu &amp; Dong, 2019, and Arecoidae is proposed herein as a new monotypic family for the aquamegadrile species Areco reco Righi, Ayres &amp; Bittencourt, 1978.   \u00a0</p></article>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", "Invasive species", "Annelida", "590", "Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "Biodiversity", "Biogeography", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "[SDV.BID.SPT] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics", " Phylogenetics and taxonomy", "Crassiclitellata", "Earthworms", "Animals", "Weevils", "Oligochaeta", "Megadriles", "Ecosystem"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/37045245"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Zootaxa", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "37045245", "name": "item", "description": "37045245", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/37045245"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-03-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "35752240", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-27T16:27:54Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-22", "title": "Integrated organic and inorganic fertilization and reduced irrigation altered prokaryotic microbial community and diversity in different compartments of wheat root zone contributing to improved nitrogen uptake and wheat yield", "description": "Open AccessThe effect of long-term water and integrated fertilization on prokaryotic microorganisms and their regulation for crop nutrient uptake remains unknown. Therefore, the impact of soil water and integrated fertilization after eight years on prokaryotic microbial communities in different compartments of root zone and their association with wheat nitrogen (N) absorption and yield were investigated. The results showed that compared with fertilization treatments (F), water regimes (W) more drastically modulated the prokaryotic microbial community structure and diversity in bulk soil, rhizosphere and endosphere. The increase of irrigation improved the prokaryotic diversity in the rhizosphere and endosphere while decreased the diversity in the bulk soil. Application of organic fertilizers significantly improved soil organic matter (SOM) and nutrient contents, increased rhizosphere and endophytic prokaryotic microbial diversity, and elevated the relative abundance of aerobic ammonia oxidation and nitrification-related functional microorganisms in rhizosphere and endosphere. Increasing irrigation elevated the relative abundance of functional microorganisms related to aerobic ammonia oxidation and nitrification in the rhizosphere and endosphere. Soil water content (SWC) and NH4+-N as well as NO3\u2212-N were key predictors of prokaryotic microbial community composition under W and F treatments, respectively. Appropriate application of irrigation and organic fertilizers increased the relative abundance of some beneficial bacteria such as Flavobacterium. Water and fertilization treatments regulated the prokaryotic microbial communities of bulk soil, rhizosphere and endosphere by altering SWC and SOM, and provided evidence for the modulation of prokaryotic microorganisms to promote nitrogen uptake and wheat yield under long-term irrigation and fertilization. Conclusively, the addition of organic manure (50 %) with inorganic fertilizers (50 %) and reduced amount of irrigation (pre-sowing and jointing-period irrigation) decreased the application amount of chemical fertilizers and water, while increased SOM and nutrient content, improved prokaryotic diversity, and changed prokaryotic microbial community structure in the wheat root zone, resulting in enhanced nutrient uptake and wheat yield.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "Yield", "Microorganism", "Microbial population biology", "Nitrogen", "Soil Science", "Organic chemistry", "Plant Science", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental science", "Agricultural and Biological Sciences", "Soil", "Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Legumes", "Soil water", "Genetics", "Fertilizers", "Biology", "Irrigation", "Soil Microbiology", "Triticum", "2. 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