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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Rillig, Matthias C. author van der Heijden, Marcel G. A. author Berdugo Vega, Miguel author Liu, Yu-Rong author Riedo, Judith author Sanz-Lazaro, Carlos author Moreno-Jiménez, Eduardo author Romero, Ferran author Tedersoo, Leho author Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel author 2023-03-16 Increasing the number of environmental stressors could decrease ecosystem functioning in soils. Yet this relationship has not been globally assessed outside laboratory experiments. Here, using two independent global standardized field surveys, and a range of natural and human factors, we test the relationship between the number of environmental stressors exceeding different critical thresholds and the maintenance of multiple ecosystem services across biomes. Our analysis shows that having multiple stressors, from medium levels (>50%), negatively and significantly correlates with impacts on ecosystem services and that having multiple stressors crossing a high-level critical threshold (over 75% of maximum observed levels) reduces soil biodiversity and functioning globally. The number of environmental stressors exceeding the >75% threshold was consistently seen as an important predictor of multiple ecosystem services, therefore improving prediction of ecosystem functioning. Our findings highlight the need to reduce the dimensionality of the human footprint on ecosystems to conserve biodiversity and function. Rillig, M. C., van der Heijden, M. G. A., Berdugo, M., Liu, Y.-R., Riedo, J., Sanz-Lazaro, C., Moreno-Jiménez, E., Romero, F., Tedersoo, L., & Delgado-Baquerizo, M. (2023). Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide. Nature Climate Change, 13(5), 478–483. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01627-2 1758-6798 10.1038/s41558-023-01627-2 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/122750 1758-678X https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01627-2 Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide