ArticleNature communications2024
Dual roles of microbes in mediating soil carbon dynamics in response to warming.
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- Ecosystem-Dependent Responses of Microbial Necromass Carbon to Warming Are Governed by the Balance Between Necromass Formation and Decomposition.Global change biology · 2026Pooled it
- Rising global temperatures reduce soil microbial diversity over the long term.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Pooled it
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- Aridity-related differences in soil elemental ratios reshape microbial functional traits across global biomes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Continental-scale integration of soil metagenomes and organic matter chemistry reveals ubiquitous microbial capacity for chemically-recalcitrant carbon decomposition.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Dissolved Organic Matter Composition and Microbial Functional Traits Regulate Carbon Mineralization Efficiency in Peatland Soils Under Experimental Warming and Nutrient Input.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Thermophilic Microbial Inoculant Promotes Lignocellulose Degradation During Green Waste Composting.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- Biosynthesis gene cluster-containing species drive microbial community stability under thermal stress through enhanced ecological cohesion.iMetaOmics · 2026Article
- Hump-Shaped Relationship Between Microbial Carbon Use-Efficiency and Soil Organic Carbon in Alpine Grasslands.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Rhizosphere microbial functions drive ecological stoichiometry in soils across an elevational gradient of a temperate mountain ecosystem.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Microbial physiological trait shifts link heavy metal remediation to enhanced soil carbon storage potential.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Conservation agriculture buffers persistent carbon loss under warming by microbial adaptation.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Increased microbial carbon use efficiency upon abrupt permafrost thaw.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Patterns and drivers of soil microbial carbon use efficiency across soil depths in forest ecosystems.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Heating up the roof of the world: tracing the impacts ofNational science review · 2025Review
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- Exploring plant-microbe interactions in adapting to abiotic stress under climate change: a review.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Review
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Abstract
Understanding the alterations in soil microbial communities in response to climate warming and their controls over soil carbon (C) processes is crucial for projecting permafrost C-climate feedback. However, previous studies have mainly focused on microorganism-mediated soil C release, and little is known about whether and how climate warming affects microbial anabolism and the subsequent C input in permafrost regions. Here, based on a more than half-decade of in situ warming experiment, we show that compared with ambient control, warming significantly reduces microbial C use efficiency and enhances microbial network complexity, which promotes soil heterotrophic respiration. Meanwhile, microbial necromass markedly accumulates under warming likely due to preferential microbial decomposition of plant-derived C, further leading to the increase in mineral-associated organic C. Altogether, these results demonstrate dual roles of microbes in affecting soil C release and stabilization, implying that permafrost C-climate feedback would weaken over time with dampened response of microbial respiration and increased proportion of stable C pool.
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