Decoupling of soil nutrient cycles as a function of aridity in global drylands

By M. Delgado‐Baquerizo, Fernando T. Maestre, A. Gallardo, M. Bowker, M. Wallenstein, José Luis Quero, V. Ochoa, Beatriz Gozalo, M. García-Gómez, S. Soliveres and 44 more. Nature, 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Carbon content and climate variability drive global soil bacterial diversity patterns (2016, background): “7 http://www.worldclim.org 8 http://earth.google.com MANUEL DELGADO-BAQUERIZO ET AL.376 Ecological Monographs Vol. 86, No. 3 [i.e., 6.608 in our data set] – aridity index in each site) instead of the aridity index (see Delgado-Baquerizo et al. 2013 for a similar approach).”
Life's Bottleneck: Sustaining the World's Phosphorus for a Food Secure Future (2014, background): “challenges and drivers are also likely to influence and be influenced by the world’s phosphorus-use patterns (103), including pressures on the global food system and limits on arable land; population growth; changing diets; climate change, including increased climate variability; water scarcity; and”
Patterns and Mechanisms of Nutrient Resorption in Plants (2015, background): “, 2012; Yuan and Chen, 2015a), as well as that in soils (Delgado-Baquerizo et al., 2013).”
Do grazing intensity and herbivore type affect soil health? Insights from a semi‐arid productivity gradient (2017, methodology): “The mechanism probably relates to substantial exposure of subsoil, which is a major source of ecosystem P (Delgado-Baquerizo et al. 2013) by rabbits during the construction of their extensive communal burrow systems.”
Increasing aridity reduces soil microbial diversity and abundance in global drylands (2015, background): “We predict that increases in aridity should reduce the abundance and diversity of soil bacteria and fungi due to the negative relationships typically found between aridity and the availability of resources such as water and C (21), which largely drive soil microbial abundance and activity in dryland”
Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity (2020, background): “Drylands, areas where rainfall is below 65% of evaporative demand (1), cover ~45% of emerged lands (2) and are especially vulnerable to climate change and land degradation (3, 4).”