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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Earth, I'm Karen Hopkin. Got a minute?

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When we think about global warming, we tend to fret about things we can see: plants, animals, the polar ice caps.

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But the effects of climate change may go much deeper: into the earth itself.

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Because a new study shows that temperature controls where soil-dwelling microbes live.

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The findings are in the journal Science.

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Bacteria are key players in the formation of topsoil.

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They add carbon and nitrogen, and extract nutrients.

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Uprooting these microscopic residents could upset the land's fertility and lead to soil erosion.

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To investigate how a rise in temperature might alter bacterial distribution in different desert climes, researchers surveyed the microbes present in a pinch of crust from several arid locations.

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And they found that cooler deserts are ruled by one type of bacteria, and warmer ones are dominated by another.

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If the climate models are correct, 50 years from now the heat-seeking bugs will have elbowed out those that prefer life a bit more chilly.

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What this microbial coup will do to the planet's ecological health is not known.

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But the results suggest that scientists interested in climate change need to dig in, because global warming is more than skin deep.

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Earth. I'm Karen Hopkin.

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