• Greater topoclimatic control of above‐ versus below‐ground communities 

      Mod, Heidi K.; Scherrer, Daniel; Di Cola, Valeria; Broennimann, Olivier; Blandenier, Quentin; Breiner, Frank T.; Buri, Aline; Goudet, Jérôme; Guex, Nicolas; Lara, Enrique; Mitchell, Edward A. D.; Niculita‐Hirzel, Hélène; Pagni, Marco; Pellissier, Loïc; Pinto‐Figueroa, Eric; Sanders, Ian R.; Schmidt, Benedikt R.; Seppey, Victor William Christophe; Singer, David; Ursenbacher, Sylvain; Yashiro, Erika; van der Meer, Jan R.; Guisan, Antoine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-31)
      Assessing the degree to which climate explains the spatial distributions of different taxonomic and functional groups is essential for anticipating the effects of climate change on ecosystems. Most effort so far has focused on above-ground organisms, which offer only a partial view on the response of biodiversity to environmental gradients. Here including both above- and below-ground organisms, we ...
    • Soil protist diversity in the Swiss western Alps is better predicted by topo-climatic than by edaphic variables 

      Seppey, Christophe Victor W.; Broennimann, Olivier; Buri, Aline; Yashiro, Erika; Pinto-Figueroa, Eric; Singer, David; Blandenier, Quentin; Mitchell, Edward A.D.; Niculita-Hirzel, Helene; Guisan, Antoine; Lara, Enrique (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-01)
      <i>Aim</i> - Trends in spatial patterns of diversity in macroscopic organisms can be well predicted from correlative models, using topo‐climatic variables for plants and animals allowing inference over large scales. By contrast, diversity in soil microorganisms is generally considered as mostly driven by edaphic variables and, therefore, difficult to extrapolate on a large spatial scale based on ...