Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt.
Journal
The ISME journal
ISSN: 1751-7370
Titre abrégé: ISME J
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101301086
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2021
08 2021
Historique:
received:
29
08
2020
accepted:
01
02
2021
revised:
26
01
2021
pubmed:
24
2
2021
medline:
6
8
2021
entrez:
23
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Soil microbial communities regulate global biogeochemical cycles and respond rapidly to changing environmental conditions. However, understanding how soil microbial communities respond to climate change, and how this influences biogeochemical cycles, remains a major challenge. This is especially pertinent in alpine regions where climate change is taking place at double the rate of the global average, with large reductions in snow cover and earlier spring snowmelt expected as a consequence. Here, we show that spring snowmelt triggers an abrupt transition in the composition of soil microbial communities of alpine grassland that is closely linked to shifts in soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical pools and fluxes. Further, by experimentally manipulating snow cover we show that this abrupt seasonal transition in wide-ranging microbial and biogeochemical soil properties is advanced by earlier snowmelt. Preceding winter conditions did not change the processes that take place during snowmelt. Our findings emphasise the importance of seasonal dynamics for soil microbial communities and the biogeochemical cycles that they regulate. Moreover, our findings suggest that earlier spring snowmelt due to climate change will have far reaching consequences for microbial communities and nutrient cycling in these globally widespread alpine ecosystems.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33619353
doi: 10.1038/s41396-021-00922-0
pii: 10.1038/s41396-021-00922-0
pmc: PMC8319178
doi:
Substances chimiques
Soil
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2264-2275Subventions
Organisme : Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
ID : BB/S010661/1
Pays : United Kingdom
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to International Society for Microbial Ecology.
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