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To understand soil microbial community stability and temporal turnover in response to climate change, a long-term soil transplant
experiment was conducted in three agricultural experiment stations over large transects from a warm temperate zone (Fengqiu
station in Central China) to a subtropical zone (Yingtan station in southern China) and a cold temperate zone (Hailun station in
northern China). Annual soil samples were collected from these three stations from 2005 to 2011, and microbial communities were
analyzed by sequencing microbial 16S rRNA gene amplicons using Illumina MiSeq technology. Our results revealed a distinctly
differential pattern of microbial communities in both northward and southward transplantations, along with an increase in microbial
richness with climate cooling and a corresponding decrease with climate warming. The microbial succession rate was estimated by
the slopes (w values) of linear regression of a log-transformed microbial community similarity with time (time�decay relationship).
Compared with the low turnover rate of microbial communities in situ (w=0.046, p < 0.001), the succession rate at the community
level was significantly higher in the northward transplant (w=0.058, p < 0.001) and highest in the southward transplant (w=0.094, p <
0.001). Climate warming leads to a faster succession rate of microbial communities as well as lower species richness, and compositional
changes compared to in situ and climate cooling, which may be related to the high metabolic rates and intense competition under
higher temperature. This study provides new insights into the impacts of climate change on the fundamental temporal scaling of soil
microbial communities and microbial phylogenetic biodiversity.
Biography
Yuting Liang has completed her PhD from Tsinghua University, China and Post-doctoral research from University of Oklahoma, USA. Focusing on the research area of the stabilizing mechanism of soil microbial diversity, she has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals, and has been authorized 3 invention patents. She has been selected as the member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and “333 High Level Talent Training Project” in Jiangsu Province.