학술논문
The influence of soil age on ecosystem structure and function across biomes
Document Type
article
Author
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo; Peter B. Reich; Richard D. Bardgett; David J. Eldridge; Hans Lambers; David A. Wardle; Sasha C. Reed; César Plaza; G. Kenny Png; Sigrid Neuhauser; Asmeret Asefaw Berhe; Stephen C. Hart; Hang-Wei Hu; Ji-Zheng He; Felipe Bastida; Sebastián Abades; Fernando D. Alfaro; Nick A. Cutler; Antonio Gallardo; Laura García-Velázquez; Patrick E. Hayes; Zeng-Yei Hseu; Cecilia A. Pérez; Fernanda Santos; Christina Siebe; Pankaj Trivedi; Benjamin W. Sullivan; Luis Weber-Grullon; Mark A. Williams; Noah Fierer
Source
Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2020)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2041-1723
Abstract
Soil age is thought to be an important driver of ecosystem development. Here, the authors perform a global survey of soil chronosequences and meta-analysis to show that, contrary to expectations, soil age is a relatively minor ecosystem driver at the biome scale once other drivers such as parent material, climate, and vegetation type are accounted for.