Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic

KR Miner, MR Turetsky, E Malina, A Bartsch… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic permafrost stores nearly 1,700 billion metric tons of frozen and thawing carbon.
Anthropogenic warming threatens to release an unknown quantity of this carbon to the …

Soil organic matter formation, persistence, and functioning: A synthesis of current understanding to inform its conservation and regeneration

MF Cotrufo, JM Lavallee - Advances in agronomy, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) provides vital services to humanity. Its preservation and further
accrual are key to sustain food production and avoid an irreversible climate crisis. Here we …

Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation

KR Miner, J D'Andrilli, R Mackelprang… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
The Arctic cryosphere is collapsing, posing overlap** environmental risks. In particular,
thawing permafrost threatens to release biological, chemical and radioactive materials that …

Salinity controls soil microbial community structure and function in coastal estuarine wetlands

G Zhang, J Bai, CC Tebbe, Q Zhao, J Jia… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil salinity acts as a critical environmental filter on microbial communities, but the
consequences for microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes are poorly understood …

Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate

JG Ernakovich, RA Barbato, VI Rich… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The physical and chemical changes that accompany permafrost thaw directly influence the
microbial communities that mediate the decomposition of formerly frozen organic matter …

Microbial traits determine soil C emission in response to fresh carbon inputs in forests across biomes

C Ren, J Wang, F Bastida… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil priming is a microbial‐driven process, which determines key soil–climate feedbacks in
response to fresh carbon inputs. Despite its importance, the microbial traits behind this …

Meta-analysis of the impact of freeze–thaw cycles on soil microbial diversity and C and N dynamics

X Ji, M Liu, J Yang, F Feng - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Reduction in snow cover is a prominent aspect of global change. Freeze–thaw cycles
(FTCs) of different amplitudes and durations in soil due to insufficient thermal insulation may …

Emission mitigation of CH4 and N2O during semi-permeable membrane covered hyperthermophilic aerobic composting of livestock manure

B Sun, Z Bai, Y Li, R Li, M Song, S Xu, H Zhang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane-covered composting and hyperthermophilic composting technologies have been
proven to be effective and have been widely applied as organic waste recycling strategies …

Distinct patterns of soil bacterial and fungal community assemblages in subtropical forest ecosystems under warming

SYD Zhou, Z Lie, X Liu, YG Zhu… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change globally affects soil microbial community assembly across ecosystems.
However, little is known about the impact of warming on the structure of soil microbial …

Asymmetric winter warming reduces microbial carbon use efficiency and growth more than symmetric year-round warming in alpine soils

L Li, Q Xu, S Jiang, X **g, Q Shen, JS He… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Asymmetric seasonal warming trends are evident across terrestrial ecosystems, with winter
temperatures rising more than summer ones. Yet, the impact of such asymmetric seasonal …