Titre : | The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity (2019) |
Auteurs : | Matthias C. Rillig, Auteur ; Masahiro Ryo, Auteur ; Anika Lehmann, Auteur ; Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros, Auteur ; Sabine Buchert, Auteur ; Anja Wulf, Auteur ; Aiko Iwasaki, Auteur ; Julien Roy, Auteur ; Gaowen Yang, Auteur |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Science (366(6467) 2019/11/15) |
Article en page(s) : | 886-890 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Impact changement climatique ; Sol ; Dégradation environnement ; Ecologie microbienne ; Biodiversité |
Résumé : |
Global environmental change is driven by multiple natural and anthropogenic factors. With a focus on global change as it affects soils, the authors point out that nearly all published studies consider just one or two factors at a time . In a laboratory experiment, they tested 10 drivers of global change both individually and in combination, at levels ranging from 2 to 10 factors. They found that soil properties, processes, and microbial communities could not be predicted from single-effect responses and that multiple factors in combination produced unsuspected responses. They concluded that single-factor studies remain important for uncovering mechanisms but that global change biology needs to embrace more fully the multitude of drivers impinging on ecosystems.
Soils underpin terrestrial ecosystem functions, but they face numerous anthropogenic pressures. Despite their crucial ecological role, we know little about how soils react to more than two environmental factors at a time. Here, we show experimentally that increasing the number of simultaneous global change factors (up to 10) caused increasing directional changes in soil properties, soil processes, and microbial communities, though there was greater uncertainty in predicting the magnitude of change. Our study provides a blueprint for addressing multifactor change with an efficient, broadly applicable experimental design for studying the impacts of global environmental change. |
En ligne : | https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6467/886 |