Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial communities provide numerous ecosystem functions, such as nutrient cycling, decomposition, and carbon storage. However, global change, including land-use and climate changes, affects soil microbial communities and activity. As extreme weather events (e.g., heatwaves) tend to increase in magnitude and frequency, we investigated the effects of heat stress on the activity (e.g., respiration) of soil microbial communities that had experienced four different long-term land-use intensity treatments (ranging from extensive grassland and intensive grassland to organic and conventional croplands) and two climate conditions (ambient vs. predicted future climate). We hypothesized that both intensive land use and future climate conditions would reduce soil microbial respiration (H1) and

SUBMITTER: Beugnon R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12020990 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature