Gene-informed decomposition model predicts lower soil carbon loss due to persistent microbial adaptation to warming.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbial respiration is an important source of uncertainty in projecting future climate and carbon (C) cycle feedbacks. However, its feedbacks to climate warming and underlying microbial mechanisms are still poorly understood. Here we show that the temperature sensitivity of soil microbial respiration (Q₁₀) in a temperate grassland ecosystem persistently decreases by 12.0 ± 3.7% across 7 years of warming. Also, the shifts of microbial communities play critical roles in regulating thermal adaptation of soil respiration. Incorporating microbial functional gene abundance data into a microbially-enabled ecosystem model significantly improves the modeling performance of soil microbial respiration by 5-19%, and reduces model parametric uncertainty by 55-71%. In addition, modelin

SUBMITTER: Guo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7524716 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature