Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead?

By A. Classen, Maja K. Sundqvist, Jeremiah A. Henning, G. S. Newman, Jessica A. M. Moore, M. Cregger, L. C. Moorhead, Courtney M. Patterson. 2015

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Global change is altering species distributions and thus interactions among organisms. Organisms live in concert with thousands of other species, some beneficial, some pathogenic, some which have little to no effect in complex communities. Since natural communities are composed of organisms with very different life history traits and dispersal ability it is unlikely they will all respond to climatic change in a similar way. Disjuncts in plant-pollinator and plant-herbivore interactions under global change have been relatively well described, but plant-soil microorganism and soil microbe-microbe relationships have received less attention. Since soil microorganisms regulate nutrient transformations, provide plants with nutrients, allow co-existence among neighbors, and control plant populations, changes in soil microorganism-plant interactions could have significant ramifications for plant community composition and ecosystem function. In this paper we explore how climatic change affects soil microbes and soil microbe-plant interactions directly and indirectly, discuss what we see as emerging and exciting questions and areas for future research, and discuss what ramifications changes in these interactions may have on the composition and function of ecosystems.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Assembly of seed-associated microbial communities within and across successive plant generations (2017, background): “Indeed, it is well accepted that climatic changes influence the composition of soil and plant-associated microbial communities (Compant et al. 2010; Classen et al. 2015).”
The microbial aspect of climate change (2016, background): “…vegetation type, and composition of soil community determine the ability of soils to sequester carbon, it is the microbial decomposers which ultimately regulate the rate-limiting steps in the decomposition process and thus the influence of abiotic factors on decomposition (Classen et al. 2015a, b).”
Why are plant–soil feedbacks so unpredictable, and what to do about it? (2018, background): “Plants and soil organisms respond differently to changes in temperature, either along latitudinal (De Frenne et al., 2013) or elevational gradients (Sundqvist, Sanders, & Wardle, 2013), as well as due to climate change (Classen et al., 2015).”
Relative importance of soil properties and microbial community for soil functionality: insights from a microbial swap experiment (2016, background): “The interplay between soil properties and microbial com- munities may have important implications on the broad and specialized functioning under changing environments (Strickland et al. 2009; Wallenstein et al. 2010; Keiser, Knoepp & Bradford 2013; Classen et al. 2015).”
Where, when and how plant-soil feedback matters in a changing world (2016, background): “A number of recent overview studies have discussed PSF in relation to climate change (Van der Putten 2012; Bardgett et al. 2013; Classen et al. 2015), ecological restoration following land use change (Kardol & Wardle 2010) and invasions (Reinhart & Callaway 2006; Bever et al. 2010).”