Soil enzymes in response to climate warming: Mechanisms and feedbacks

N Fanin, M Mooshammer, M Sauvadet… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil enzymes are central to ecosystem processes because they mediate numerous
reactions that are essential in biogeochemical cycles. However, how soil enzyme activities …

Microbial diversity declines in warmed tropical soil and respiration rise exceed predictions as communities adapt

AT Nottingham, JJ Scott, K Saltonstall, K Broders… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Perturbation of soil microbial communities by rising temperatures could have important
consequences for biodiversity and future climate, particularly in tropical forests where high …

Soil carbon and microbes in the warming tropics

AT Nottingham, E Gloor, E Bååth, P Meir - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming could destabilise the Earth's largest terrestrial store of reactive carbon (C),
by accelerating the decomposition of soil organic matter. A third of that C store resides in the …

Optimal growth temperature of Arctic soil bacterial communities increases under experimental warming

R Rijkers, J Rousk, R Aerts… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Future climate warming in the Arctic will likely increase the vulnerability of soil carbon stocks
to microbial decomposition. However, it remains uncertain to what extent decomposition …

Opportunities to advance the synthesis of ecology and evolution

M Loreau, P Jarne, JBH Martiny - Ecology letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite decades of research on the interactions between ecology and evolution,
opportunities still remain to further integrate the two disciplines, especially when considering …

Heat wave‐induced microbial thermal trait adaptation and its reversal in the Subarctic

D Tájmel, C Cruz‐Paredes, J Rousk - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change predictions suggest that arctic and subarctic ecosystems will be particularly
affected by rising temperatures and extreme weather events, including severe heat waves …

Simulating the effect of climate change on soil microbial community in an Abies georgei var. smithii forest

F Fu, J Li, Y Li, W Chen, H Ding, S Xiao - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is considered a region vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
Studying the effects of climate change on the structure and function of soil microbial …

Seasonal variation in temperature sensitivity of bacterial growth in a temperate soil and lake

E Kritzberg, E Bååth - FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Faster bacterial biomass turnover is expected in water compared to soil, which would result
in more rapid community adaption to changing environmental conditions, including …

Changing soil available substrate primarily caused by fertilization management contributed more to soil respiration temperature sensitivity than microbial community …

Z Guo, CA Liu, K Hua, D Wang, P Wu, S Wan… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Substrate depletion and microbial community thermal adaptation are major mechanisms that
regulate the temperature sensitivity (Q 10) of soil microbial respiration. Traditionally, the Q …

Microbial diversity decline and community response are decoupled from increased respiration in warmed tropical forest soil

A Nottingham, JJ Scott, K Saltonstall… - Nature …, 2022 - research.ed.ac.uk
Methods) and our detection of new fungal taxa in warmed soils (see below). Warmed soils
also hosted 140 microbial species (defined by Amplicon Sequence Variants, ASVs) that …