ArticleMicrobiome2020
Warming-induced permafrost thaw exacerbates tundra soil carbon decomposition mediated by microbial community.
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- Compositional shifts and co-occurrence patterns of topsoil bacteria and micro-eukaryotes across a permafrost thaw gradient in alpine meadows of the Qilian Mountains, China.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Frozen no more, a case study of Arctic permafrost impacts of oil and gas withdrawal.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Asymmetric winter warming reduces microbial carbon use efficiency and growth more than symmetric year-round warming in alpine soils.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Warming effects on grassland soil microbial communities are amplified in cool months.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Earth to Mars: A Protocol for Characterizing Permafrost in the Context of Climate Change as an Analog for Extraplanetary Exploration.Astrobiology · 2023Article
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- Microbial life in 25-m-deep boreholes in ancient permafrost illuminated by metagenomics.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
- Microbial Community in the Permafrost Thaw Gradient in the South of the Vitim Plateau (Buryatia, Russia).Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate.Global change biology · 2022Review
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23 authors at 11 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundIt is well-known that global warming has effects on high-latitude tundra underlain with permafrost. This leads to a severe concern that decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) previously stored in this region, which accounts for about 50% of the world's SOC storage, will cause positive feedback that accelerates climate warming. We have previously shown that short-term warming (1.5 years) stimulates rapid, microbe-mediated decomposition of tundra soil carbon without affecting the composition of the soil microbial community (based on the depth of 42684 sequence reads of 16S rRNA gene amplicons per 3 g of soil sample).
resultsWe show that longer-term (5 years) experimental winter warming at the same site altered microbial communities (p < 0.040). Thaw depth correlated the strongest with community assembly and interaction networks, implying that warming-accelerated tundra thaw fundamentally restructured the microbial communities. Both carbon decomposition and methanogenesis genes increased in relative abundance under warming, and their functional structures strongly correlated (R
conclusionsOur results demonstrate that microbial responses associated with carbon cycling could lead to positive feedbacks that accelerate SOC decomposition in tundra regions, which is alarming because SOC loss is unlikely to subside owing to changes in microbial community composition. Video Abstract.
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