Yu-Rong Liu

4 weeks ago | journals.plos.org | Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo |David Eldridge |Yu-Rong Liu |Huazhong Agricultural

Loading metrics Open Access Essay Essays articulate a specific perspective on a topic of broad interest to scientists. See all article types» ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Delgado-Baquerizo M, Eldridge DJ, Liu Y-R, Liu Z-W, Coleine C, Trivedi P (2025) Soil biodiversity and function under global change. PLoS Biol 23(3): e3003093. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003093Published: March 27, 2025Copyright: © 2025 Delgado-Baquerizo et al.

May 16, 2024 | nature.com | Jiao Feng |Yu-Rong Liu |David Eldridge |Qiaoyun Huang |Wenfeng Tan

AbstractSoil biodiversity contains the metabolic toolbox supporting organic matter decomposition and nutrient cycling in the soil. However, as soil develops over millions of years, the buildup of plant cover, soil carbon and microbial biomass may relax the dependence of soil functions on soil biodiversity. To test this hypothesis, we evaluate the within-site soil biodiversity and function relationships across 87 globally distributed ecosystems ranging in soil age from centuries to millennia.

Mar 15, 2024 | nature.com | David Eldridge |Jingyi Ding |Tadeo Saez-Sandino |Alexandra Rodriguez |César Plaza |Alberto L. Teixido | +8 more

AbstractGreenspaces are important for sustaining healthy urban environments and their human populations. Yet their capacity to support multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (multiservices) compared with nearby natural ecosystems remains virtually unknown. We conducted a global field survey in 56 urban areas to investigate the influence of urban greenspaces on 23 soil and plant attributes and compared them with nearby natural environments.

Mar 16, 2023 | nature.com | Matthias C. Rillig |Miguel Berdugo |Yu-Rong Liu |Judith Riedo |Carlos Sanz-Lazaro |Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez | +2 more

AbstractIncreasing the number of environmental stressors could decrease ecosystem functioning in soils. Yet this relationship has not been globally assessed outside laboratory experiments. Here, using two independent global standardized field surveys, and a range of natural and human factors, we test the relationship between the number of environmental stressors exceeding different critical thresholds and the maintenance of multiple ecosystem services across biomes.