10-Temperature mediates continental-scale diversit

10-Temperature mediates continental-scale diversity of microbes in forest soils.ARTICLEReceived11Jun2015|Accepted27May2016|Published5Jul2016Temperaturemediatescontinental-scalediversityofmicrobesinforestsoilsJizhongZhou1,2,3,YeDeng2,4,LinaShen2,ChongqingWen2,QingyunYan2,DaliangNing2,YujiaQin2,KaiXue2,LiyouWu2,ZhiliHe2,JamesW.Voordeckers2,JoyD.VanNostrand2,VanessaBuzzard5,SeanT.Michaletz5,BrianJ.Enquist5,6,MichaelD.Weiser7,MichaelKaspari7,8,RobertWaide9,YunfengYang1&JamesH.Brown9Climatewarmingisincreasinglyleadingtomarkedchangesinplantandanimalbiodiversity,butitremainsunclearhowtemperaturesaffectmicrobialbiodiversity,particularlyinterres-trialsoils.Hereweshowthat,inaccordancewithmetabolictheoryofecology,taxonomicandphylogeneticdiversityofsoilbacteria,fungiandnitrogenfixersareallbetterpredictedbyvariationinenvironmentaltemperaturethanpH.However,theratesofdiversityturnoveracrosstheglobaltemperaturegradientsaresubstantiallylowerthanthoserecordedfortreesandanimals,suggestingthatthediversity