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- Title
Warming-induced permafrost thaw exacerbates tundra soil carbon decomposition mediated by microbial community.
- Authors
Feng, Jiajie; Wang, Cong; Lei, Jiesi; Yang, Yunfeng; Yan, Qingyun; Zhou, Xishu; Tao, Xuanyu; Ning, Daliang; Yuan, Mengting M.; Qin, Yujia; Shi, Zhou J.; Guo, Xue; He, Zhili; Van Nostrand, Joy D.; Wu, Liyou; Bracho-Garillo, Rosvel G.; Penton, C. Ryan; Cole, James R.; Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T.; Luo, Yiqi
- Abstract
Background: It is well-known that global warming has effects on high-latitude tundra underlain with permafrost. This leads to a severe concern that decomposition of soil organic carbon (SOC) previously stored in this region, which accounts for about 50% of the world's SOC storage, will cause positive feedback that accelerates climate warming. We have previously shown that short-term warming (1.5 years) stimulates rapid, microbe-mediated decomposition of tundra soil carbon without affecting the composition of the soil microbial community (based on the depth of 42684 sequence reads of 16S rRNA gene amplicons per 3 g of soil sample). Results: We show that longer-term (5 years) experimental winter warming at the same site altered microbial communities (p < 0.040). Thaw depth correlated the strongest with community assembly and interaction networks, implying that warming-accelerated tundra thaw fundamentally restructured the microbial communities. Both carbon decomposition and methanogenesis genes increased in relative abundance under warming, and their functional structures strongly correlated (R2 > 0.725, p < 0.001) with ecosystem respiration or CH4 flux. Conclusions: Our results demonstrate that microbial responses associated with carbon cycling could lead to positive feedbacks that accelerate SOC decomposition in tundra regions, which is alarming because SOC loss is unlikely to subside owing to changes in microbial community composition. Video Abstract
- Publication
Microbiome, 2020, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2049-2618
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s40168-019-0778-3