ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
76 citing papers in PubMed.
- Hydrothermal regimes regulate microbiome patterns across vertical profile and their responses to alpine permafrost degradation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Signal of carbon exchange in Qilian mountain based on eddy covariance and remote sensing data.iScience · 2026Article
- Multitrophic biodiversity drives soil phosphorus mobilization in subtropical ecosystems.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- Ecological acclimation of microbial communities to rising temperatures: growth, respiration, and interactions.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Review
- Balancing deterministic and stochastic assembly during needle aging shapes phyllosphere microbial community complexity and stability.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Article
- Depth-resolved transcriptional activity of antibiotic resistance genes in deep permafrost of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Freeze-thaw strength regulates carbon density through microbial assembly processes and network clustering.mSystems · 2026Article
- Effect of Florpyrauxifen-Benzyl on Methane-Metabolizing Microbial Community in Rice Rhizosphere Soil.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Carbon-fixing bacteria and sediment organic carbon response to the introduction of mangrove plant Sonneratia caseolaris.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Divergent Responses of Bacterial Communities to Permafrost Degradation and Their Associations With Carbon Across Vertical Profiles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- The Microbial Network Stability in Cyanobacterial and Moss Biocrusts Respond Differently to Climate Warming.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Sustaining Ecological Functional Zones: The Stabilizing Role of Common Fungi Against Warming Revealed by Altitudinal Transect.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Biosynthesis gene cluster-containing species drive microbial community stability under thermal stress through enhanced ecological cohesion.iMetaOmics · 2026Article
- Elevated microbial network complexity and enriched methanogens contribute to higher methanogenic potential in hollows than in hummocks in alpine meadows.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Gut microbiome dynamics and cardiometabolic disease progression: evidence from a secondary data analysis of pooled clinical datasets.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Mechanisms by stand density regulates soil multifunctionality via soil environment and microbial network topology in aFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Relative contributions of vegetation and soil properties to microbial community structure and function in alpine and subalpine meadows of the southeastern Tibetan Plateau.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Urban land use influences microbial functional traits along a management intensity gradient.Frontiers in microbiomes · 2026Article
- Population ecology and biogeochemical implications of ssDNA and dsDNA viruses along a permafrost thaw gradient.Nature communications · 2025Article
16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Permafrost degradation may induce soil carbon (C) loss, critical for global C cycling, and be mediated by microbes. Despite larger C stored within the active layer of permafrost regions, which are more affected by warming, and the critical roles of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in C cycling, most previous studies focused on the permafrost layer and in high-latitude areas. We demonstrate in situ that permafrost degradation alters the diversity and potentially decreases the stability of active layer microbial communities. These changes are associated with soil C loss and potentially a positive C feedback. This study provides insights into microbial-mediated mechanisms responsible for C loss within the active layer in degraded permafrost, aiding in the modeling of C emission under future scenarios.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.