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T1 - Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails
AU - Potapov, Anton M.
AU - Guerra, Carlos A.
AU - van den Hoogen, Johan
AU - Babenko, Anatoly
AU - Bellini, Bruno C.
AU - Berg, Matty P.
AU - Chown, Steven L.
AU - Deharveng, Louis
AU - Kováč, Ľubomír
AU - Kuznetsova, Natalia A.
AU - Ponge, Jean-François
AU - Potapov, Mikhail B.
AU - Russell, David J.
AU - Alexandre, Douglas
AU - Alatalo, Juha M.
AU - Arbea, Javier I.
AU - Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa
AU - Bernava, Verónica
AU - Bokhorst, Stef
AU - Bolger, Thomas
AU - Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela
AU - Chauvat, Matthieu
AU - Chen, Ting-Wen
AU - Chomel, Mathilde
AU - Classen, Aimee T.
AU - Cortet, Jerome
AU - Čuchta, Peter
AU - Manuela de la Pedrosa, Ana
AU - Ferreira, Susana S. D.
AU - Fiera, Cristina
AU - Filser, Juliane
AU - Franken, Oscar
AU - Fujii, Saori
AU - Koudji, Essivi Gagnon
AU - Gao, Meixiang
AU - Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit
AU - Gomez-Pamies, Diego F.
AU - Greve, Michelle
AU - Tanya Handa, I.
AU - Heiniger, Charlène
AU - Holmstrup, Martin
AU - Homet, Pablo
AU - Ivask, Mari
AU - Janion-Scheepers, Charlene
AU - Jochum, Malte
AU - Joimel, Sophie
AU - Claudia S. Jorge, Bruna
AU - Jucevica, Edite
AU - Ferlian, Olga
AU - Iuñes de Oliveira Filho, Luís Carlos
AU - Klauberg-Filho, Osmar
AU - Baretta, Dilmar
AU - Krab, Eveline J.
AU - Kuu, Annely
AU - de Lima, Estevam C. A.
AU - Lin, Dunmei
AU - Lindo, Zoe
AU - Liu, Amy
AU - Lu, Jing-Zhong
AU - Luciañez, María José
AU - Marx, Michael T.
AU - McCary, Matthew A.
AU - Minor, Maria A.
AU - Nakamori, Taizo
AU - Negri, Ilaria
AU - Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl
AU - Palacios-Vargas, José G.
AU - Pollierer, Melanie M.
AU - Querner, Pascal
AU - Raschmanová, Natália
AU - Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz
AU - Raymond-Léonard, Laura J.
AU - Rousseau, Laurent
AU - Saifutdinov, Ruslan A.
AU - Salmon, Sandrine
AU - Sayer, Emma J.
AU - Scheunemann, Nicole
AU - Scholz, Cornelia
AU - Seeber, Julia
AU - Shveenkova, Yulia B.
AU - Stebaeva, Sophya K.
AU - Sterzynska, Maria
AU - Sun, Xin
AU - Susanti, Winda I.
AU - Taskaeva, Anastasia A.
AU - Thakur, Madhav P.
AU - Tsiafouli, Maria A.
AU - Turnbull, Matthew S.
AU - Twala, Mthokozisi N.
AU - Uvarov, Alexei V.
AU - Venier, Lisa A.
AU - Widenfalk, Lina A.
AU - Winck, Bruna R.
AU - Winkler, Daniel
AU - Wu, Donghui
AU - Xie, Zhijing
AU - Yin, Rui
AU - Zeppelini, Douglas
AU - Crowther, Thomas W.
AU - Eisenhauer, Nico
AU - Scheu, Stefan
PY - 2023/2/7
Y1 - 2023/2/7
N2 - Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil arthropods regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of springtail diversity and density, and how these relate to energy fluxes remains unknown. Here, using a global dataset representing 2470 sites, we estimate the total soil springtail biomass at 27.5 megatons carbon, which is threefold higher than wild terrestrial vertebrates, and record peak densities up to 2 million individuals per square meter in the tundra. Despite a 20-fold biomass difference between the tundra and the tropics, springtail energy use (community metabolism) remains similar across the latitudinal gradient, owing to the changes in temperature with latitude. Neither springtail density nor community metabolism is predicted by local species richness, which is high in the tropics, but comparably high in some temperate forests and even tundra. Changes in springtail activity may emerge from latitudinal gradients in temperature, predation and resource limitation in soil communities. Contrasting relationships of biomass, diversity and activity of springtail communities with temperature suggest that climate warming will alter fundamental soil biodiversity metrics in different directions, potentially restructuring terrestrial food webs and affecting soil functioning.
AB - Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil arthropods regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of springtail diversity and density, and how these relate to energy fluxes remains unknown. Here, using a global dataset representing 2470 sites, we estimate the total soil springtail biomass at 27.5 megatons carbon, which is threefold higher than wild terrestrial vertebrates, and record peak densities up to 2 million individuals per square meter in the tundra. Despite a 20-fold biomass difference between the tundra and the tropics, springtail energy use (community metabolism) remains similar across the latitudinal gradient, owing to the changes in temperature with latitude. Neither springtail density nor community metabolism is predicted by local species richness, which is high in the tropics, but comparably high in some temperate forests and even tundra. Changes in springtail activity may emerge from latitudinal gradients in temperature, predation and resource limitation in soil communities. Contrasting relationships of biomass, diversity and activity of springtail communities with temperature suggest that climate warming will alter fundamental soil biodiversity metrics in different directions, potentially restructuring terrestrial food webs and affecting soil functioning.
KW - Article
KW - /631/158/851
KW - /631/158/670
KW - article
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6
DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-36216-6
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 674
ER -