Positive climate feedbacks of soil microbial communities in a semi-arid grassland
| Autor: | Caley K. Gasch, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Ming Nie, Colin W Bell, Shanker Tamang, Elise Pendall, Swastika Raut |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Wyoming
Biomass (ecology) geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology Climate Climate Change Soil organic matter Community structure Climate change Poaceae Arid Carbon Grassland Enzymes Microbial population biology Agronomy Environmental science Seasons Microbial inoculant Ecosystem Soil Microbiology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics |
| Zdroj: | Ecology Letters. 16:234-241 |
| ISSN: | 1461-023X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/ele.12034 |
| Popis: | Soil microbial communities may be able to rapidly respond to changing environments in ways that change community structure and functioning, which could affect climate-carbon feedbacks. However, detecting microbial feedbacks to elevated CO(2) (eCO(2) ) or warming is hampered by concurrent changes in substrate availability and plant responses. Whether microbial communities can persistently feed back to climate change is still unknown. We overcame this problem by collecting microbial inocula at subfreezing conditions under eCO(2) and warming treatments in a semi-arid grassland field experiment. The inoculant was incubated in a sterilised soil medium at constant conditions for 30 days. Microbes from eCO(2) exhibited an increased ability to decompose soil organic matter (SOM) compared with those from ambient CO(2) plots, and microbes from warmed plots exhibited increased thermal sensitivity for respiration. Microbes from the combined eCO(2) and warming plots had consistently enhanced microbial decomposition activity and thermal sensitivity. These persistent positive feedbacks of soil microbial communities to eCO(2) and warming may therefore stimulate soil C loss. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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