ArticleThe ISME journal2018
Long-term in situ permafrost thaw effects on bacterial communities and potential aerobic respiration.
Article in The ISME journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 27 papers.
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- Active layer microbial inocula restore missing functions across thawed permafrost soils.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Spatial Differentiation and Community Assembly of Soil Bacterial Communities in Permafrost Peatlands of the Greater Khingan Mountains.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Vegetation type conversion in Northeast China under permafrost change.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Graminoids Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Thawed Permafrost at the End of the Growing Season.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Warming enhances soil carbon accumulation in boreal Sphagnum peatlands.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Nitrogen Redox Controls on Greenhouse Gas Production in Yedoma Taliks.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Active layer and permafrost microbial community coalescence increases soil activity and diversity in mixed communities compared to permafrost alone.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Changes in nutrient availability substantially alter bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Bioindicator "fingerprints" of methane-emitting thermokarst features in Alaskan soils.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- The responses of COPeerJ · 2024Article
- Genomic evidence that microbial carbon degradation is dominated by iron redox metabolism in thawing permafrost.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Abrupt permafrost thaw triggers activity of copiotrophs and microbiome predators.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Multifarious Responses of Forest Soil Microbial Community Toward Climate Change.Microbial ecology · 2023Review
- Summer thaw duration is a strong predictor of the soil microbiome and its response to permafrost thaw in arctic tundra.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate.Global change biology · 2022Review
- Vertical distribution of bacterial community diversity in the Greater Khingan Mountain permafrost region.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Soil texture influences soil bacterial biomass in the permafrost-affected alpine desert of the Tibetan plateau.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Microbial Community Changes in 26,500-Year-Old Thawing Permafrost.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Unearthing Shifts in Microbial Communities Across a Soil Disturbance Gradient.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Impact of River Channel Lateral Migration on Microbial Communities across a Discontinuous Permafrost Floodplain.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The decomposition of large stocks of soil organic carbon in thawing permafrost might depend on more than climate change-induced temperature increases: indirect effects of thawing via altered bacterial community structure (BCS) or rooting patterns are largely unexplored. We used a 10-year in situ permafrost thaw experiment and aerobic incubations to investigate alterations in BCS and potential respiration at different depths, and the extent to which they are related with each other and with root density. Active layer and permafrost BCS strongly differed, and the BCS in formerly frozen soils (below the natural thawfront) converged under induced deep thaw to strongly resemble the active layer BCS, possibly as a result of colonization by overlying microorganisms. Overall, respiration rates decreased with depth and soils showed lower potential respiration when subjected to deeper thaw, which we attributed to gradual labile carbon pool depletion. Despite deeper rooting under induced deep thaw, root density measurements did not improve soil chemistry-based models of potential respiration. However, BCS explained an additional unique portion of variation in respiration, particularly when accounting for differences in organic matter content. Our results suggest that by measuring bacterial community composition, we can improve both our understanding and the modeling of the permafrost carbon feedback.
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