Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

Johan van den Hoogen; Stefan Geisen; Devin Routh; Howard Ferris; Walter Traunspurger; David A. Wardle; Ron G.M. de Goede; Byron J. Adams; Wasim Ahmad; Walter S. Andriuzzi; Richard D. Bardgett; Michael Bonkowski; Raquel Campos-Herrera; Juvenil E. Cares; Tancredi Caruso; Larissa de Brito Caixeta; Xiaoyun Chen; Sofia R. Costa; Rachel Creamer; José Mauro da Cunha Castro; Marie Dam; Djibril Djigal; Miguel Escuer; Bryan S. Griffiths; Carmen Gutiérrez; Karin Hohberg; Daria Kalinkina; Paul Kardol; Alan Kergunteuil; Gerard Korthals; Valentyna Krashevska; Alexey A. Kudrin; Qi Li; Wenju Liang; Matthew Magilton; Mariette Marais; José Antonio Rodríguez Martín; Elizaveta Matveeva; El Hassan Mayad; Christian Mulder; Peter Mullin; Roy Neilson; T. A.Duong Nguyen; Uffe N. Nielsen; Hiroaki Okada; Juan Emilio Palomares Rius; Kaiwen Pan; Vlada Peneva; Loïc Pellissier; Julio Carlos Pereira da Silva; Camille Pitteloud; Thomas O. Powers; Kirsten Powers; Casper W. Quist; Sergio Rasmann; Sara Sánchez Moreno; Stefan Scheu; Heikki Setälä; Anna Sushchuk; Alexei V. Tiunov; Jean Trap; Wim van der Putten; Mette Vestergård; Cecile Villenave; Lieven Waeyenberge; Diana H. Wall; Rutger Wilschut; Daniel G. Wright; Jiue in Yang; Thomas Ward Crowther

doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

Johan van den Hoogen^*, Stefan Geisen, Devin Routh, Howard Ferris, Walter Traunspurger, David A. Wardle, Ron G.M. de Goede, Byron J. Adams, Wasim Ahmad, Walter S. Andriuzzi, Richard D. Bardgett, Michael Bonkowski, Raquel Campos-Herrera, Juvenil E. Cares, Tancredi Caruso, Larissa de Brito Caixeta, Xiaoyun Chen, Sofia R. Costa, Rachel Creamer, José Mauro da Cunha CastroMarie Dam, Djibril Djigal, Miguel Escuer, Bryan S. Griffiths, Carmen Gutiérrez, Karin Hohberg, Daria Kalinkina, Paul Kardol, Alan Kergunteuil, Gerard Korthals, Valentyna Krashevska, Alexey A. Kudrin, Qi Li, Wenju Liang, Matthew Magilton, Mariette Marais, José Antonio Rodríguez Martín, Elizaveta Matveeva, El Hassan Mayad, Christian Mulder, Peter Mullin, Roy Neilson, T. A.Duong Nguyen, Uffe N. Nielsen, Hiroaki Okada, Juan Emilio Palomares Rius, Kaiwen Pan, Vlada Peneva, Loïc Pellissier, Julio Carlos Pereira da Silva, Camille Pitteloud, Thomas O. Powers, Kirsten Powers, Casper W. Quist, Sergio Rasmann, Sara Sánchez Moreno, Stefan Scheu, Heikki Setälä, Anna Sushchuk, Alexei V. Tiunov, Jean Trap, Wim van der Putten, Mette Vestergård, Cecile Villenave, Lieven Waeyenberge, Diana H. Wall, Rutger Wilschut, Daniel G. Wright, Jiue in Yang, Thomas Ward Crowther

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Abstract

Soil organisms are a crucial part of the terrestrial biosphere. Despite their importance for ecosystem functioning, few quantitative, spatially explicit models of the active belowground community currently exist. In particular, nematodes are the most abundant animals on Earth, filling all trophic levels in the soil food web. Here we use 6,759 georeferenced samples to generate a mechanistic understanding of the patterns of the global abundance of nematodes in the soil and the composition of their functional groups. The resulting maps show that 4.4 ± 0.64 × 10²⁰ nematodes (with a total biomass of approximately 0.3 gigatonnes) inhabit surface soils across the world, with higher abundances in sub-Arctic regions (38% of total) than in temperate (24%) or tropical (21%) regions. Regional variations in these global trends also provide insights into local patterns of soil fertility and functioning. These high-resolution models provide the first steps towards representing soil ecological processes in global biogeochemical models and will enable the prediction of elemental cycling under current and future climate scenarios.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	194-198
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature
Volume	572
Issue number	7768
Early online date	24 Jul 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6
Publication status	Print publication - 8 Aug 2019

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van den Hoogen, J., Geisen, S., Routh, D., Ferris, H., Traunspurger, W., Wardle, D. A., de Goede, R. G. M., Adams, B. J., Ahmad, W., Andriuzzi, W. S., Bardgett, R. D., Bonkowski, M., Campos-Herrera, R., Cares, J. E., Caruso, T., de Brito Caixeta, L., Chen, X., Costa, S. R., Creamer, R., ... Crowther, T. W. (2019). Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale. Nature, 572(7768), 194-198. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1418-6

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Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

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