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<p><UnorderedList Mark="Bullet"> <ItemContent> <p>Reveals key progress in soil microbial biogeography.</p> </ItemContent> <ItemContent> <p>Identifies major conceptual and methodological limitations.</p> </ItemContent> <ItemContent> <p>Proposes a framework linking prediction, mechanism, and manipulation.</p> </ItemContent> <ItemContent> <p>Highlights the role of microbes in sustainability under global change.</p> </ItemContent> </UnorderedList></p><p>Soil microorganisms are the biological engines of terrestrial ecosystems. The development of molecular technologies has overturned the ‘everything is everywhere’ paradigm, revealing that at the strain-level, soil microbes exhibit distinct biogeographical patterns governed by environmental selection, dispersal, diversification, and drift. In this review, we first summarize the major progresses in soil microbial biogeography. Then, we discuss the potential limitations, including the constraints of space-for-time substitution, the disconnect between statistical correlation and ecological causality, and the inherent challenges in mapping and scaling microbial distributions. Finally, we propose a strategic framework centered on three directions: (1) Enhancing prediction, by integrating microbial traits into Earth System Models to forecast the responses of soil microbes and their associated functions to global change; (2) Deciphering mechanisms, by bridging multi-omics approaches with rigorous experimental validation to establish causality between structure and function; and (3) Achieving manipulation, by leveraging synthetic ecology and core taxa to engineer microbiomes for practical application in One Health initiatives. Moving from pattern description to mechanistic understanding and functional manipulation will enable soil microbial biogeography to provide actionable solutions for sustainability in a rapidly changing world.</p>

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Soil microbial biogeography: from maps to blueprints

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  • 发表日期：

    2026年5月8日

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  • Gui-Feng Gao,
  • Shuo Jiao,
  • Ke Dong,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Xin Xin,
  • Beibei Chen,
  • Kunkun Fan,
  • Yu Shi,
  • Congcong Shen,
  • Teng Yang,
  • Minyu Jing,
  • Siyu Chen,
  • Bin Ma,
  • Gehong Wei,
  • Jianming Xu,
  • Jack A. Gilbert,
  • Haiyan Chu

摘要

Reveals key progress in soil microbial biogeography.

Identifies major conceptual and methodological limitations.

Proposes a framework linking prediction, mechanism, and manipulation.

Highlights the role of microbes in sustainability under global change.

Soil microorganisms are the biological engines of terrestrial ecosystems. The development of molecular technologies has overturned the ‘everything is everywhere’ paradigm, revealing that at the strain-level, soil microbes exhibit distinct biogeographical patterns governed by environmental selection, dispersal, diversification, and drift. In this review, we first summarize the major progresses in soil microbial biogeography. Then, we discuss the potential limitations, including the constraints of space-for-time substitution, the disconnect between statistical correlation and ecological causality, and the inherent challenges in mapping and scaling microbial distributions. Finally, we propose a strategic framework centered on three directions: (1) Enhancing prediction, by integrating microbial traits into Earth System Models to forecast the responses of soil microbes and their associated functions to global change; (2) Deciphering mechanisms, by bridging multi-omics approaches with rigorous experimental validation to establish causality between structure and function; and (3) Achieving manipulation, by leveraging synthetic ecology and core taxa to engineer microbiomes for practical application in One Health initiatives. Moving from pattern description to mechanistic understanding and functional manipulation will enable soil microbial biogeography to provide actionable solutions for sustainability in a rapidly changing world.