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dc.contributor.authorMartinez, Adalee
dc.contributor.authorSchiro, Gabriele
dc.contributor.authorBarberán, Albert
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-10T19:40:56Z
dc.date.available2024-05-10T19:40:56Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-22
dc.identifier.citationMartinez, A., Schiro, G. & Barberán, A. (2024) Soil microbial communities along elevational gradients in the Madrean Sky Islands. Environmental Microbiology, 26(2), e16596. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16596en_US
dc.identifier.pmid38387888
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1462-2920.16596
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/672331
dc.description.abstractThe Madrean Sky Islands are mountain ranges isolated by a ‘desert sea’. This area is a biodiversity hotspot currently threatened by climate change. Here, we studied soil microbial communities along elevational gradients in eight Madrean Sky Islands in southeastern Arizona (USA). Our results showed that while elevational microbial richness gradients were weak and not consistent across different mountains, soil properties strongly influenced microbial community composition (overall composition and the abundance of key functional groups) along elevational gradients. In particular, warming is associated with a higher abundance of soil-borne fungal plant pathogens that concomitantly might facilitate upward elevational shifts of plant species released from negative plant–soil feedbacks. Furthermore, projected warming and drought in the area aggravated by anthropogenic nitrogen deposition on mountain tops (and thus, decreasing nitrogen limitation) can enhance a shift from ectomycorrhizal to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Overall, these results indicate that climate change effects on plant–soil interactions might have profound ecosystem consequences.en_US
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dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Incen_US
dc.rights© 2024 Applied Microbiology International and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
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dc.titleSoil microbial communities along elevational gradients in the Madrean Sky Islands.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1462-2920
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Environmental Science, University of Arizonaen_US
dc.identifier.journalEnvironmental microbiologyen_US
dc.description.note12 month embargo; first published 22 February 2024en_US
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dc.eprint.versionFinal accepted manuscripten_US
dc.source.journaltitleEnvironmental microbiology
dc.source.volume26
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.beginpagee16596
dc.source.endpage
dc.source.countryEngland


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