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H2020 European Research Council, Grant/Award Number: 647038; Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Grant/Award Number: PID2019-106004RA-I00, PID2020-115813RA-I00, PID2020-116578RB--I00 and RYC2018-025483-I; Humboldt Foundation; Junta de Andalucia, Grant/Award Number: P20_00879; Conselleria de Innovacion, Universidades, Ciencia y Sociedad Digital de la Generalitat Valenciana, Grant/Award Number: CIDEGENT/2018/041; European Social Fund, Grant/Award Number: APOSTD/2021/188; Marc R. Benioff Revocable Trust; MICINN, Grant/Award Number: RYC-2017 22032

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October 31, 2022
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Soils in warmer and less developed countries have less micronutrients globally

Publicated to:GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY. 29 (2): 522-532 - 2023-01-01 29(2), DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16478

Authors: Moreno-Jimenez, Eduardo; Maestre, Fernando T; Flagmeier, Maren; Guirado, Emilio; Berdugo, Miguel; Bastida, Felipe; Dacal, Marina; Diaz-Martinez, Paloma; Ochoa-Hueso, Raul; Plaza, Cesar; Rillig, Matthias C; Crowther, Thomas W; Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel

Affiliations

Berlin Brandenburg Inst Adv Biodivers Res, Berlin, Germany - Author
Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany. - Author
CEBAS CSIC, Dept Soil & Water Conservat & Waste Management, Murcia, Spain - Author
CSIC, Inst Ciencias Agr ICA, Madrid, Spain - Author
CSIC, Lab Biodiversidad & Funcionamiento Ecosistem, Inst Recursos Nat & Agrobiol Sevilla IRNAS, Seville, Spain - Author
Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain. - Author
Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. - Author
Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. - Author
Department of Biology, Botany Area, University of Cádiz, Vitivinicultural and Agri-Food Research Institute (IVAGRO), Cádiz, Spain. - Author
Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. - Author
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. - Author
Department of Environment Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. - Author
Department of Soil and Water Conservation and Waste Management, CEBAS-CSIC, Murcia, Spain. - Author
Free Univ Berlin, Inst Biol, Dept Biol Chem Pharm, Berlin, Germany - Author
Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain. - Author
Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. - Author
Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistemico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC., Sevilla, Spain. - Author
Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Environm Syst Sci, Inst Integrat Biol, Zurich, Switzerland - Author
Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain. - Author
Univ Alicante, Dept Ecol, Alicante, Spain - Author
Univ Alicante, Inst Multidisciplinar Estudio Medio Ramon Margale, Alicante, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Fac Sci, Dept Agr & Food Chem, Madrid 28049, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Fac Sci, Dept Biol, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Cadiz, Vitivinicultural & Agrifood Res Inst IVAGRO, Dept Biol, Bot Area, Cadiz, Spain - Author
Univ Pablo de Olavide, Unidad Asociada CSIC UPO BioFun, Seville, Spain - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Biol & Geol, Fis & Quim Inorgan, Mostoles, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Soil micronutrients are capital for the delivery of ecosystem functioning and food provision worldwide. Yet, despite their importance, the global biogeography and ecological drivers of soil micronutrients remain virtually unknown, limiting our capacity to anticipate abrupt unexpected changes in soil micronutrients in the face of climate change. Here, we analyzed >1300 topsoil samples to examine the global distribution of six metallic micronutrients (Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn, Co and Ni) across all continents, climates and vegetation types. We found that warmer arid and tropical ecosystems, present in the least developed countries, sustain the lowest contents of multiple soil micronutrients. We further provide evidence that temperature increases may potentially result in abrupt and simultaneous reductions in the content of multiple soil micronutrients when a temperature threshold of 12-14°C is crossed, which may be occurring on 3% of the planet over the next century. Altogether, our findings provide fundamental understanding of the global distribution of soil micronutrients, with direct implications for the maintenance of ecosystem functioning, rangeland management and food production in the warmest and poorest regions of the planet.© 2022 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Keywords

climatecropsenvironmental driversforestglobal biogeographymetalsmicronutrientsnutritionsoil ecologytemperaturethresholdsClimate changeEcosystemEnvironmental driversGlobal biogeographyMetalsMicronutrientsParent materialSoilSoil ecologySoil pollutants

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 1/75, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Biodiversity Conservation. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 5.5, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Aug 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-08-02, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 13
  • Scopus: 19
  • Europe PMC: 4

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-08-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 55.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 55 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 39.45.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 2 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 65 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://repositorio.uam.es/handle/10486/706822

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Germany; Switzerland.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (MORENO JIMENEZ, EDUARDO) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been MORENO JIMENEZ, EDUARDO.