Climate warming restructures seasonal dynamics of grassland soil microbial communities.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial community's responses to climate warming alter the global carbon cycle. In temperate ecosystems, soil microbial communities function along seasonal cycles. However, little is known about how the responses of soil microbial communities to warming vary when the season changes. In this study, we investigated the seasonal dynamics of soil bacterial community under experimental warming in a temperate tall-grass prairie ecosystem. Our results showed that warming significantly (p = 0.001) shifted community structure, such that the differences of microbial communities between warming and control plots increased nonlinearly (R ² = 0.578, p = 0.021) from spring to winter. Also, warming significantly (p < 0.050) increased microbial network complex

SUBMITTER: Guo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10989843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature