Warming, Snow Exclusion, and Soil Type Alter the Timing of Plant and Soil Activity and Associated Nutrient Losses.

ABSTRACT: In seasonally snow-covered ecosystems, changing temperatures and snowpack dynamics under climate change have increased the occurrence and duration of soil temperatures that support microbial activity during plant dormancy. During these periods of microbial activity without plant activity (i.e., plant-microbe asynchronies), soil nutrients that build up are vulnerable to leaching loss, with potentially important consequences for ecosystem productivity. Furthermore, asynchronies likely do not occur uniformly in space; rather, their occurrence may be modulated by subsurface characteristics. Soil texture, for example, moderates biogeochemical cycles and water holding capacity, and could mitigate or exacerbate nutrient losses during plant-microbe asynchronies. Here, we quantified how climate cha

SUBMITTER: Juice SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12365583 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature