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ArticleCommunications biology2024

Tibetan Plateau grasslands might increase sequestration of microbial necromass carbon under future warming.

Qinwei Zhang, Xianke Chen, Xiaorong Zhou, Xin Nie, Guohua Liu, Guoqiang Zhuang, Guodong Zheng, Danielle Fortin, Anzhou Ma

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Qinwei Zhang *Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.
Xianke Chen *Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.
Xiaorong ZhouResearch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.
Xin NieResearch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.
Guohua LiuResearch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.
Guoqiang ZhuangResearch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China.
Guodong ZhengSchool of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430078, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8137-6477
Danielle FortinDepartment of Geology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, K1N6N5, Canada.
Anzhou MaResearch Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100085, China. azma@rcees.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-6197-777X

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Abstract

Microbial necromass carbon (MNC) can reflect soil carbon (C) sequestration capacity. However, changes in the reserves of MNC in response to warming in alpine grasslands across the Tibetan Plateau are currently unclear. Based on large-scale sampling and published observations, we divided eco-clusters based on dominant phylotypes, calculated their relative abundance, and found that their averaged importance to MNC was higher than most other environmental variables. With a deep learning model based on stacked autoencoder, we proved that using eco-cluster relative abundance as the input variable of the model can accurately predict the overall distribution of MNC under current and warming conditions. It implied that warming could lead to an overall increase in the MNC in grassland topsoil across the Tibetan Plateau, with an average increase of 7.49 mg/g, a 68.3% increase. Collectively, this study concludes that alpine grassland has the tendency to increase soil C sequestration capacity on the Tibetan Plateau under future warming.

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GrasslandSoil MicrobiologyCarbonCarbon SequestrationClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingSoilTibetCarbonSoil

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PMID38834864
PMCPMC11150409

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