Reviews and syntheses: Soil responses to manipulated precipitation changes –  an assessment of meta-analyses

Abbasi, Akane O.; Salazar, Alejandro; Oh, Youmi; Reinsch, Sabine; del Rosario Uribe, Maria; Li, Jianghanyang; Rashid, Irfan; Dukes, Jeffrey S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3859-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3859-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3859-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 14

Reviews and syntheses

|

29 Jul 2020

Reviews and syntheses |

| 29 Jul 2020

Reviews and syntheses: Soil responses to manipulated precipitation changes – an assessment of meta-analyses

Akane O. Abbasi, Alejandro Salazar, Youmi Oh, Sabine Reinsch, Maria del Rosario Uribe, Jianghanyang Li, Irfan Rashid, and Jeffrey S. Dukes

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Soil responses to manipulated precipitation changes: A synthesis of meta-analysis A. O. Abbasi, A. Salazar, Y. Oh, S. Reinsch, M. R. Uribe, J. Li, I. Rashid, and J. S. Dukes https://doi.org/10.4231/16NT-CW47

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In this study, we provide a holistic view of soil responses to precipitation changes. A total of 16 meta-analyses focusing on the effects of precipitation changes on 42 soil response variables were compared. A strong agreement was found that the belowground carbon and nitrogen cycling accelerate under increased precipitation and slow under decreased precipitation, while bacterial and fungal communities are relatively resistant to decreased precipitation. Knowledge gaps were also identified.