RT Journal Article
T1 Unearthing the soil‐borne microbiome of land plants
A1 Ochoa Hueso, Raúl
A1 Eldridge, David J.
A1 Berdugo Vega, Miguel
A1 Trivedi, Pankaj
A1 Sokoya, Blessing
A1 Cano Díaz, Concha
A1 Abades, Sebastian
A1 Alfaro, Fernando
A1 Bamigboye, Adebola R.
A1 Bastida, Felipe
A1 Blanco‐Pastor, José L.
A1 De los Rios, Asunción
A1 Durán, Jorge
A1 Geisen, Stefan
A1 Grebenc, Tine
A1 Illán, Javier G.
A1 Liu, Yu Rong
A1 Makhalanyane, Thulani P.
A1 Mamet, Steven
A1 Molina Montenegro, Marco A.
A1 Moreno, José L.
A1 Nahberger, Tina Unuk
A1 Peñaloza Bojacá, Gabriel F.
A1 Plaza, César
A1 Rey, Ana
A1 Rodríguez, Alexandra
A1 Siebe, Christina
A1 Singh, Brajesh K.
A1 López Teixido, Alberto
A1 Torres Díaz, Cristian
A1 Wang, Ling
A1 Wang, Jianyong
A1 Wang, Juntao
A1 Zaady, Eli
A1 Zhou, Xiaobing
A1 Zhou, Xin Quan
A1 Tedersoo, Leho
A1 Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel
AB Plant–soil biodiversity interactions are fundamental for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, the existence of a set of globally distributed topsoil microbial and small invertebrate organisms consistently associated with land plants (i.e., their consistent soil-borne microbiome), together with the environmental preferences and functional capabilities of these organisms, remains unknown. We conducted a standardized field survey under 150 species of land plants, including 58 species of bryophytes and 92 of vascular plants, across 124 locations from all continents. We found that, despite the immense biodiversity of soil organisms, the land plants evaluated only shared a small fraction (less than 1%) of all microbial and invertebrate taxa that were present across contrasting climatic and soil conditions and vegetation types. These consistent taxa were dominated by generalist decomposers and phagotrophs and their presence was positively correlated with the abundance of functional genes linked to mineralization. Finally, we showed that crossing environmental thresholds in aridity (aridity index of 0.65, i.e., the transition from mesic to dry ecosystems), soil pH (5.5; i.e., the transition from acidic to strongly acidic soils), and carbon (less than 2%, the lower limit of fertile soils) can result in drastic disruptions in the associations between land plants and soil organisms, with potential implications for the delivery of soil ecosystem processes under ongoing global environmental change.
PB Wiley
SN 1354-1013
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118885
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/118885
LA eng
NO Ochoa-Hueso, R., Eldridge, D. J., Berdugo, M., Trivedi, P., Sokoya, B., Cano-Díaz, C., Abades, S., Alfaro, F., Bamigboye, A. R., Bastida, F., Blanco-Pastor, J. L., de los Rios, A., Durán, J., Geisen, S., Grebenc, T., Illán, J. G., Liu, Y.-R., Makhalanyane, T. P., Mamet, S., … Delgado-Baquerizo, M. (2024). Unearthing the soil-borne microbiome of land plants. Global Change Biology, 30, e17295. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17295
NO This study work associated with this manuscript was founded by a Large Research Grant from the British Ecological Society (No LRB17\1019; MUSGONET). M.D.-B. was supported from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the I + D + i project PID2020-115813RA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the TED2021-130908B-C41 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/PRTR.” R.O.-H. was supported by the Ramón y Cajal program from the MICINN (RYC-2017 22032), by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the I + D + i project PID2019-106004RA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, by the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) y la Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades of the Junta de Andalucía (FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020 Objetivo temático “01 - Refuerzo de la investigación, el desarrollo tecnológico y la innovación”): P20_00323 (FUTUREVINES), and by the Fondo Europeo Agrícola de Desarrollo Rural (FEADER) through the “Ayudas a Grupos operativos de la Asociación Europea de Innovación (AEI) en materia de productividad y sostenibilidad agrícolas”, References: GOPC-CA-20-0001 (O.G. Suelos Vivos) and GO2022-01 (O.G. Viñas Vivas). TG and TUN were supported by the research project J4-1766 “Methodology approaches in genome-based diversity and ecological plasticity study of truffles from their natural distribution areas”, the Research Program in Forest Biology, Ecology and Technology (P4-0107), and a Young Researcher scheme (TUN) of the Slovenian Research Agency. J.L.B.-P. is supported by the EMERGIA programme of the Junta de Andalucía (EMC21_00207).
NO British Ecological Society
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
NO European Commission
NO Junta de Andalucía
NO Slovenian Research Agency
DS Docta Complutense
RD 25 dic 2025