PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Agathokleous, Evgenios
AU  - Feng, Zhaozhong
AU  - Oksanen, Elina
AU  - Sicard, Pierre
AU  - Wang, Qi
AU  - Saitanis, Costas J.
AU  - Araminiene, Valda
AU  - Blande, James D.
AU  - Hayes, Felicity
AU  - Calatayud, Vicent
AU  - Domingos, Marisa
AU  - Veresoglou, Stavros D.
AU  - Peñuelas, Josep
AU  - Wardle, David A.
AU  - De Marco, Alessandra
AU  - Li, Zhengzhen
AU  - Harmens, Harry
AU  - Yuan, Xiangyang
AU  - Vitale, Marcello
AU  - Paoletti, Elena
TI  - Ozone affects plant, insect, and soil microbial communities: A threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity
AID  - 10.1126/sciadv.abc1176
DP  - 2020 Aug 01
TA  - Science Advances
PG  - eabc1176
VI  - 6
IP  - 33
4099  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/33/eabc1176.short
4100  - http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/33/eabc1176.full
SO  - Sci Adv2020 Aug 01; 6
AB  - Elevated tropospheric ozone concentrations induce adverse effects in plants. We reviewed how ozone affects (i) the composition and diversity of plant communities by affecting key physiological traits; (ii) foliar chemistry and the emission of volatiles, thereby affecting plant-plant competition, plant-insect interactions, and the composition of insect communities; and (iii) plant-soil-microbe interactions and the composition of soil communities by disrupting plant litterfall and altering root exudation, soil enzymatic activities, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. The community composition of soil microbes is consequently changed, and alpha diversity is often reduced. The effects depend on the environment and vary across space and time. We suggest that Atlantic islands in the Northern Hemisphere, the Mediterranean Basin, equatorial Africa, Ethiopia, the Indian coastline, the Himalayan region, southern Asia, and Japan have high endemic richness at high ozone risk by 2100.