Drainage‐induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of
northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central …

This article is a Commentary on Defrenne et al.(2023), 240: 412–425.

Climate change is triggering rapid shifts in plant communities and alterations in soil abiotic
conditions in peatlands, with cascading effects on belowground decomposers and …

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of drainage on peat properties, porewater
chemistry, and peat decomposition proxies in an ombrogenous peatland in the Hudson Bay …

Peatlands have persisted as massive carbon sinks over millennia, even during past periods
of climate change. The commonly accepted theory of abiotic controls (mainly anoxia and low …

Despite the importance of peatlands as a major store of sequestered carbon and the role of
fungi in releasing sequestered C, we know little about the community structure of fungi in …

Peatlands store an immense pool of soil carbon vulnerable to microbial oxidation due to
drought and intentional draining. We used amplicon sequencing and quantitative PCR to (i) …

Peatlands are major carbon sinks globally, but it is still unclear what drives their shift from
functioning as carbon sink to a source. Fungi rely on soil carbon inputs and play an active …

Peatlands are a dominant landform in the northern hemisphere, accumulating carbon in the
form of peat due to an imbalance between decomposition and plant production rates …

Aims Mycorrhizal type has been proposed as an effective trait integrator capturing varying
biogeochemical syndromes in terrestrial ecosystems. However, for boreal peatlands, it is still …