Experiments suggest that biodiversity enhances the ability of ecosystems to maintain
multiple functions, such as carbon storage, productivity, and the buildup of nutrient pools (…

The immense diversity of soil bacterial communities has stymied efforts to characterize
individual taxa and document their global distributions. We analyzed soils from 237 locations …

Understanding how drylands respond to ongoing environmental change is extremely important
for global sustainability. In this review, we discuss how biotic attributes, climate, grazing …

Predicting the distribution of biocrust species, mosses, lichens and liverworts associated
with surface soils is difficult, but climatic legacies (changes in climate over the last 20 k years) …

… Terry Koen and David Wharton advised on statistical techniques, and Sara Mouro helped
us to build the databases. We appreciate the constructive comments on the manuscript from Dr …

The biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are interlinked by
primary production, respiration and decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems 1 . It has been …

Soil bacteria and fungi play key roles in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, yet our
understanding of their responses to climate change lags significantly behind that of other …

The role of soil biodiversity in regulating multiple ecosystem functions is poorly understood,
limiting our ability to predict how soil biodiversity loss might affect human wellbeing and …

Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem
services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate…

Despite having key functions in terrestrial ecosystems, information on the dominant soil fungi
and their ecological preferences at the global scale is lacking. To fill this knowledge gap, …