ArticleISME communications2022
Weakened resilience of benthic microbial communities in the face of climate change.
Article in ISME communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Climate-driven restructuring of sediment microbiomes and ecosystem functions in aquaculture systems.AIMS microbiology · 2026Review
- Divergent Driving Mechanisms Shape the Temporal Dynamics of Benthic Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Microbial Communities in Coastal Subtidal Zones.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Warming degrades nutritional quality of periphyton in stream ecosystems: evidence from a mesocosm experiment.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Long-term warming raises risks of seasonal seafloor methane release in the coastal Baltic Sea.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Baltic Sea coastal sediment-bound eukaryotes have increased year-round activities under predicted climate change related warming.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Climate change induces shifts in coastal Baltic Sea surface water microorganism stress and photosynthesis gene expression.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Natural Variations in the Benthic Environment and Bacterial Communities of Coastal Sediments around Aquaculture Farms in South Korea.Indian journal of microbiology · 2023Article
- Long-term warming modulates diversity, vertical structuring of microbial communities, and sulfate reduction in coastal Baltic Sea sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Environmental changes affect the microbial release of hydrogen sulfide and methane from sediments at Boknis Eck (SW Baltic Sea).Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Long-Term Warming of Baltic Sea Coastal Waters Affects Bacterial Communities in Bottom Water and Sediments Differently.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Increased ocean temperature associated with climate change is especially intensified in coastal areas and its influence on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycling is poorly understood. In this study, we sampled a Baltic Sea bay that has undergone 50 years of warmer temperatures similar to RCP5-8.5 predictions due to cooling water release from a nuclear power plant. The system demonstrated reduced oxygen concentrations, decreased anaerobic electron acceptors, and higher rates of sulfate reduction. Chemical analyses, 16S rRNA gene amplicons, and RNA transcripts all supported sediment anaerobic reactions occurring closer to the sediment-water interface. This resulted in higher microbial diversities and raised sulfate reduction and methanogenesis transcripts, also supporting increased production of toxic sulfide and the greenhouse gas methane closer to the sediment surface, with possible release to oxygen deficient waters. RNA transcripts supported prolonged periods of cyanobacterial bloom that may result in increased climate change related coastal anoxia. Finally, while metatranscriptomics suggested increased energy production in the heated bay, a large number of stress transcripts indicated the communities had not adapted to the increased temperature and had weakened resilience. The results point to a potential feedback loop, whereby increased temperatures may amplify negative effects at the base of coastal biochemical cycling.
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