Climate regulates the effect of land-use change on the diversity of soil microbial functional groups and soil multifunctionality

Although studies have explored how soil microbial diversity and soil multifunctionality respond to land-use change at local scales, they have rarely been explored at larger scales and across different climatic and soil environmental conditions.
By sampling 40 paired sites of land-use change from natural forests to agricultural lands (including croplands and orchards) along the middle and lower Yangtze River, combined with a global meta-analysis, we investigated the effects of land-use change and climate on the alpha and beta diversity of soil bacterial and fungal functional groups (FGs) and their associated soil multifunctionality at a regional scale.
Our results showed that land-use change strongly changed the diversity of soil bacterial and fungal FGs and decreased multifunctionality, which was supported by our meta-analysis at a global scale. Direct effects of land-use change and climate and their interaction, together with changes in soil environmental variables, were the main deter..., , , # Climate regulates the effect of land-use change on the diversity of soil microbial functional groups and soil multifunctionality

## Data.xlsx

Dataset from the middle and lower Yangtze River. The dataset contains 69 variables used in this manuscript. NA in the dataset indicates missing data for relevant variable.

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