Whole-soil warming decreases abundance and modifies the community structure of microorganisms in the subsoil but not in surface soil

Zosso, Cyrill U.; Ofiti, Nicholas O. E.; Soong, Jennifer L.; Solly, Emily F.; Torn, Margaret S.; Huguet, Arnaud; Wiesenberg, Guido L. B.; Schmidt, Michael W. I.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-477-2021

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-477-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-477-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 2

Original research article

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02 Aug 2021

Original research article |

| 02 Aug 2021

Whole-soil warming decreases abundance and modifies the community structure of microorganisms in the subsoil but not in surface soil

Cyrill U. Zosso, Nicholas O. E. Ofiti, Jennifer L. Soong, Emily F. Solly, Margaret S. Torn, Arnaud Huguet, Guido L. B. Wiesenberg, and Michael W. I. Schmidt

Data sets

Blodgett Forest CA Warming Experiment phospholipid fatty acid and branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers data 2018 from: "Whole-soil warming decreases abundance and modifies the community structure of microorganisms in the subsoil but not in surface soil'' C. Zosso, M. W. Schmidt, M. S. Torn, G. L. Wiesenberg, N. O. Ofiti, A. Huguet, J. L. Soong, and E. F. Solly https://doi.org/10.15485/1810163

Short summary

How subsoil microorganisms respond to warming is largely unknown, despite their crucial role in the soil organic carbon cycle. We observed that the subsoil microbial community composition was more responsive to warming compared to the topsoil community composition. Decreased microbial abundance in subsoils, as observed in this study, might reduce the magnitude of the respiration response over time, and a shift in the microbial community will likely affect the cycling of soil organic carbon.