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Greater topoclimatic control of above- versus below-ground communities.

Authors
  • Mod, Heidi K1, 2
  • Scherrer, Daniel1, 3
  • Di Cola, Valeria1
  • Broennimann, Olivier1, 4
  • Blandenier, Quentin5, 6
  • Breiner, Frank T1
  • Buri, Aline4
  • Goudet, Jérôme1, 7
  • Guex, Nicolas8, 9
  • Lara, Enrique6
  • Mitchell, Edward A D5, 10
  • Niculita-Hirzel, Hélène11
  • Pagni, Marco9
  • Pellissier, Loïc3, 12
  • Pinto-Figueroa, Eric13
  • Sanders, Ian R1
  • Schmidt, Benedikt R14, 15
  • Seppey, Christophe V W16
  • Singer, David5, 17
  • Ursenbacher, Sylvain14, 18
  • And 3 more
  • 1 Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 2 Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. , (Finland)
  • 3 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 4 Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 5 Laboratory of Soil Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 6 Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid, Spain. , (Spain)
  • 7 Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 8 Bioinformatics Competence Center, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 9 Vital-IT Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 10 Jardin Botanique de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 11 Department of Occupational Health and Environment, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 12 Landscape Ecology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 13 Terrabiom, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 14 Info Fauna Karch, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 15 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 16 Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. , (Norway)
  • 17 Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. , (Brazil)
  • 18 Department of Environmental Sciences, Section of Conservation Biology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
  • 19 Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. , (Switzerland)
Type
Published Article
Journal
Global Change Biology
Publisher
Wiley (Blackwell Publishing)
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2020
Volume
26
Issue
12
Pages
6715–6728
Identifiers
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15330
PMID: 32866994
Source
Medline
Keywords
Language
English
License
Unknown

Abstract

Assessing the degree to which climate explains the spatial distributions of different taxonomic and functional groups is essential for anticipating the effects of climate change on ecosystems. Most effort so far has focused on above-ground organisms, which offer only a partial view on the response of biodiversity to environmental gradients. Here including both above- and below-ground organisms, we quantified the degree of topoclimatic control on the occurrence patterns of >1,500 taxa and phylotypes along a c. 3,000 m elevation gradient, by fitting species distribution models. Higher model performances for animals and plants than for soil microbes (fungi, bacteria and protists) suggest that the direct influence of topoclimate is stronger on above-ground species than on below-ground microorganisms. Accordingly, direct climate change effects are predicted to be stronger for above-ground than for below-ground taxa, whereas factors expressing local soil microclimate and geochemistry are likely more important to explain and forecast the occurrence patterns of soil microbiota. Detailed mapping and future scenarios of soil microclimate and microhabitats, together with comparative studies of interacting and ecologically dependent above- and below-ground biota, are thus needed to understand and realistically forecast the future distribution of ecosystems. © 2020 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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