The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface
| Autor: | William C. Ghiorse, E. van Heerden, Hailiang Dong, Thomas L. Kieft, Tullis C. Onstott, Li-Hung Lin, Malin Bomberg, H. Stan-Lotter, K. A. Pedersen, Cara Magnabosco |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Total organic carbon Biomass (ecology) biology Lithology Earth science 030106 microbiology Biodiversity biology.organism_classification 03 medical and health sciences Abundance (ecology) General Earth and Planetary Sciences Environmental science Species richness Groundwater Archaea |
| Zdroj: | Magnabosco, C, Lin, L H, Dong, H, Bomberg, M, Ghiorse, W, Stan-Lotter, H, Pedersen, K, Kieft, T L, van Heerden, E & Onstott, T C 2018, ' The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface ', Nature Geoscience, vol. 11, pp. 707-717 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0221-6 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41561-018-0221-6 |
| Popis: | Despite accounting for a significant portion of the Earth’s prokaryotic biomass, controls on the abundance and biodiversity of microorganisms residing in the continental subsurface are poorly understood. To redress this, we compiled cell concentration and microbial diversity data from continental subsurface localities around the globe. Based on considerations of global heat flow, surface temperature, depth and lithology, we estimated that the continental subsurface hosts 2 to 6 × 1029 cells and found that other variables such as total organic carbon and groundwater cellular abundances do not appear to be predictive of cell concentrations in the continental subsurface. Although we were unable to identify a reliable predictor of species richness in the continental subsurface, we found that bacteria are more abundant than archaea and that their community composition was correlated to sample lithology. Using our updated continental subsurface cellular estimate and existing literature, we estimate that the total global prokaryotic biomass is approximately 23 to 31 Pg of carbon C (PgC), roughly 4 to 10 times less than previous estimates. The abundance of microorganisms in the continental subsurface may have been overestimated, according to a review compilation of data from subsurface localities around the globe. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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