Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands

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High-level classification of the Fungi and a tool for evolutionary ecological analyses (2018, background): “…plant, microbial and fungal ecologists typically test the importance of environmental variables on fungal diversity at the level of orders, classes or phyla, but not their subranks or various ranks intermixed due to simplicity and avoiding confusion (e.g. Tedersoo et al. 2014; Maestre et al. 2015).”
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, neutral): “Aridity, which is predicted to increase owing to climate change, 219 .”
Deterministic selection dominates microbial community assembly in termite mounds (2020, background): “The differences in environmental factors, such as pH, MAT, MAP and vegetation, also likely increase with increasing geographical distance, which play a key role in in structuring microbial communities [29, 30].”
Plant diversity represents the prevalent determinant of soil fungal community structure across temperate grasslands in northern China (2017, background): “In agreement with recent reports on global drylands and temperate grasslands (Maestre et al., 2015; Prober et al., 2015), fungal communities in the arid and semiarid grassland of northern China were dominated by Ascomycota.”