[HTML][HTML] Scientists' warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change

R Cavicchioli, WJ Ripple, KN Timmis, F Azam… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
In the Anthropocene, in which we now live, climate change is impacting most life on Earth.
Microorganisms support the existence of all higher trophic life forms. To understand how …

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 …

Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

MM Yuan, X Guo, L Wu, YA Zhang, N **ao… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Unravelling the relationships between network complexity and stability under changing
climate is a challenging topic in theoretical ecology that remains understudied in the field of …

Stochastic community assembly: does it matter in microbial ecology?

J Zhou, D Ning - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

A quantitative framework reveals ecological drivers of grassland microbial community assembly in response to warming

D Ning, M Yuan, L Wu, Y Zhang, X Guo, X Zhou… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Unraveling the drivers controlling community assembly is a central issue in ecology.
Although it is generally accepted that selection, dispersal, diversification and drift are major …

Reduced microbial stability in the active layer is associated with carbon loss under alpine permafrost degradation

MH Wu, SY Chen, JW Chen, K Xue… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Permafrost degradation may induce soil carbon (C) loss, critical for global C cycling, and be
mediated by microbes. Despite larger C stored within the active layer of permafrost regions …

Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

Soil organic carbon response to global environmental change depends on its distribution between mineral-associated and particulate organic matter: A meta-analysis

KS Rocci, JM Lavallee, CE Stewart… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC), as the largest terrestrial carbon pool, plays an important role in
global carbon (C) cycling, which may be significantly impacted by global changes such as …

Elevated temperature shifts soil N cycling from microbial immobilization to enhanced mineralization, nitrification and denitrification across global terrestrial ecosystems

Z Dai, M Yu, H Chen, H Zhao, Y Huang… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed the response of soil microbial nitrogen (N) cycling and associated functional
genes to elevated temperature at the global scale. A meta‐analysis of 1,270 observations …

Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming

P García-Palacios, TW Crowther, M Dacal… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Anthropogenic warming is expected to accelerate global soil organic carbon (SOC) losses
via microbial decomposition, yet, there is still no consensus on the loss magnitude. In this …