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SUBMITTER: Delgado-Baquerizo M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4738359 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Delgado-Baquerizo Manuel M Maestre Fernando T FT Reich Peter B PB Jeffries Thomas C TC Gaitan Juan J JJ Encinar Daniel D Berdugo Miguel M Campbell Colin D CD Singh Brajesh K BK
Nature communications 20160128
Despite the importance of microbial communities for ecosystem services and human welfare, the relationship between microbial diversity and multiple ecosystem functions and services (that is, multifunctionality) at the global scale has yet to be evaluated. Here we use two independent, large-scale databases with contrasting geographic coverage (from 78 global drylands and from 179 locations across Scotland, respectively), and report that soil microbial diversity positively relates to multifunction ...[more]