Rewiring of peatland plant–microbe networks outpaces species turnover

Interactions between plant and microbial communities in peatlands are complex, yet pivotal for the functioning of these carbon-dense ecosystems. Our understanding of how climate change affects important peatland processes such as carbon dynamics is often based on assumed fixed relationships between above-and belowground communities. Our work shows that the turnover in plant–microbial interactions along enviro–climatic gradients is faster than species turnover within both communities, resulting in a mismatch in alpha diversity between plant and microbial communities. Notably, warming and increased nutrient deposition weakens plant–microbe linkages, which may consequentially decrease the overall robustness of peatland ecosystem processes to future anthropogenic pressures.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z4a-k5jy
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-m4-s4en
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07635
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:202434
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Creator Robroek, BJM ORCID logo
Publisher Oikos published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos
Contributor Martí, M; Svensson, BH; Dumont, MG; Veraart, AJ; Jassey, VEJ; Robroek, BJM; Dr BJM Robroek (Radboud University)
Publication Year 2021
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/x-cmdi+xml
Discipline Biogeography; Biospheric Sciences; Ecology; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (64.880 LON, 19.560 LAT); Europe