Dam construction alters planktonic microbial predator‒prey communities in the urban reaches of the Yangtze River

Q Wang, J Chen, W Qi, D Wang, H Lin, X Wu, D Wang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
While dam construction supports social and economic development, changes in hydraulic
conditions can also affect natural aquatic ecosystems, especially microbial ecosystems. The …

Mixotrophic microbes create carbon tipping points under warming

DJ Wieczynski, HV Moeller, JP Gibert - Functional Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mixotrophs are ubiquitous and integral to microbial food webs, but their impacts on the
dynamics and functioning of broader ecosystems are largely unresolved. Here, we show that …

Viral infections likely mediate microbial controls on ecosystem responses to global warming

DJ Wieczynski, KM Yoshimura… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Climate change is affecting how energy and matter flow through ecosystems, thereby
altering global carbon and nutrient cycles. Microorganisms play a fundamental role in …

Predation preference for extracellular polysaccharides by paramecia and rotifers may have accelerated the decline of membrane biofilm hydraulic resistance

X Chen, D Li, C Zhou, X Liu, G Liu - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The hydraulic resistance of biofilm layer on membranes impacts the filtration resistance
significantly. The effect of predation by two model microfauna (ie, paramecia and rotifers) on …

Rapid eco‐phenotypic feedback and the temperature response of biomass dynamics

JP Gibert, DJ Wieczynski, ZY Han… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Biomass dynamics capture information on population dynamics and ecosystem‐level
processes (eg, changes in production over time). Understanding how rising temperatures …

Temperature and CO2 interactively drive shifts in the compositional and functional structure of peatland protist communities

CL Kilner, AA Carrell, DJ Wieczynski… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microbes affect the global carbon cycle that influences climate change and are in turn
influenced by environmental change. Here, we use data from a long‐term whole‐ecosystem …

[HTML][HTML] Soil microbiota plays a key regulatory role in the outbreak of tobacco root rot

P Li, S Gu, Y Zhu, T Xu, Y Yang, Z Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Root rot caused by the fungal pathogen Fusarium sp. poses significant
challenges to tobacco cultivation in China, leading to major economic setbacks. The …

Temperature and nutrients drive eco-phenotypic dynamics in a microbial food web

ZY Han, DJ Wieczynski… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Anthropogenic increases in temperature and nutrient loads will likely impact food web
structure and stability. Although their independent effects have been reasonably well …

The community background alters the evolution of thermal performance

J Westley, FC García, R Warfield… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Microbes are key drivers of global biogeochemical cycles, and their functional roles arey
dependent on temperature. Large population sizes and rapid turnover rates mean that the …

Climate Change Factors Interactively Shift Peatland Functional Microbial Composition in a Whole-Ecosystem Warming Experiment

CL Kilner, AA Carrell, DJ Wieczynski, S Votzke… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Microbes both affect the global carbon cycle that influences climate change, and are in turn
influenced by environmental change. Here, we address how this happens using data from a …