ArticleThe ISME journal2022
Ecological and genomic responses of soil microbiomes to high-severity wildfire: linking community assembly to functional potential.
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- Marine Heatwaves Transform Coral Symbioses With Enduring Effects.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Effects of low wildfire burn severity due to pre-fire shrub thinning on the chaparral soil bacteriome in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California.Microbiology spectrum · 2025Article
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- Long-term climate establishes functional legacies by altering microbial traits.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Multi-scale evidence for declining microbial carbon fixation along forest succession gradients.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Effects of fire intensity on soil microbial diversity and nitrogen cycling functional genes in forests (Northeast China).Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Effects of wildfire on soil microbial communities in karst forest ecosystems of southern Guizhou Province, China.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2024Article
- Growth rate as a link between microbial diversity and soil biogeochemistry.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- Genomic insights into redox-driven microbial processes for carbon decomposition in thawing Arctic soils and permafrost.mSphere · 2024Article
- Elevated methane flux in a tropical peatland post-fire is linked to depth-dependent changes in peat microbiome assembly.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2024Article
- Surface-active antibiotic production as a multifunctional adaptation for postfire microorganisms.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Soil microbiome feedbacks during disturbance-driven forest ecosystem conversion.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Wildfire impact on soil microbiome life history traits and roles in ecosystem carbon cycling.ISME communications · 2024Article
- A genomic catalogue of soil microbiomes boosts mining of biodiversity and genetic resources.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Increasing wildfire severity, which is common throughout the western United States, can have deleterious effects on plant regeneration and large impacts on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling rates. Soil microbes are pivotal in facilitating these elemental cycles, so understanding the impact of increasing fire severity on soil microbial communities is critical. Here, we assess the long-term impact of high-severity fires on the soil microbiome. We find that high-severity wildfires result in a multi-decadal (>25 y) recovery of the soil microbiome mediated by concomitant differences in aboveground vegetation, soil chemistry, and microbial assembly processes. Our results depict a distinct taxonomic and functional successional pattern of increasing selection in post-fire soil microbial communities. Changes in microbiome composition corresponded with changes in microbial functional potential, specifically altered C metabolism and enhanced N cycling potential, which related to rates of potential decomposition and inorganic N availability, respectively. Based on metagenome-assembled genomes, we show that bacterial genomes enriched in our earliest site (4 y since fire) harbor distinct traits such as a robust stress response and a high potential to degrade pyrogenic, polyaromatic C that allow them to thrive in post-fire environments. Taken together, these results provide a biological basis for previously reported process rate measurements and explain the temporal dynamics of post-fire biogeochemistry, which ultimately constrains ecosystem recovery.
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