Ecotrons: Powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science

J Roy, F Rineau, HJ De Boeck, I Nijs… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems integrity and services are threatened by anthropogenic global changes.
Mitigating and adapting to these changes require knowledge of ecosystem functioning in the …

Grassland soil organic carbon stocks along management intensity and warming gradients

C Poeplau - Grass and Forage Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Grasslands are a major terrestrial ecosystem type and store large amounts of soil organic
carbon (SOC) per unit area. Quantitative and mechanistic knowledge on the effects of …

Microbial temperature sensitivity and biomass change explain soil carbon loss with warming

TWN Walker, C Kaiser, F Strasser, CW Herbold… - Nature climate …, 2018 - nature.com
Soil microorganisms control carbon losses from soils to the atmosphere 1, 2, 3, yet their
responses to climate warming are often short-lived and unpredictable 4, 5, 6, 7. Two …

Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O2 provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies …

TA Halamka, JH Raberg, JM McFarlin… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) are bacterial membrane lipids that
are frequently employed as paleoenvironmental proxies because of the strong empirical …

Lipid biomarker temperature proxy responds to abrupt shift in the bacterial community composition in geothermally heated soils

C De Jonge, D Radujković, BD Sigurdsson… - Organic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Specific soil bacterial membrane lipids, branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers
(brGDGTs), are used as an empirical proxy for past continental temperatures. Their …

[HTML][HTML] The influence of soil chemistry on branched tetraether lipids in mid-and high latitude soils: Implications for brGDGT-based paleothermometry

C De Jonge, EE Kuramae, D Radujković… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (BrGDGTs) are a suite of orphan bacterial
membrane lipids commonly used as paleo-environmental proxies for mean annual air …

Soil warming increases the number of growing bacterial taxa but not their growth rates

D Metze, J Schnecker, CLN de Carlan, B Bhattarai… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Soil microorganisms control the fate of soil organic carbon. Warming may accelerate their
activities putting large carbon stocks at risk of decomposition. Existing knowledge about …

Optimal growth temperature of Arctic soil bacterial communities increases under experimental warming

R Rijkers, J Rousk, R Aerts… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Future climate warming in the Arctic will likely increase the vulnerability of soil carbon stocks
to microbial decomposition. However, it remains uncertain to what extent decomposition …

Increased microbial expression of organic nitrogen cycling genes in long-term warmed grassland soils

J Séneca, A Söllinger, CW Herbold… - ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Global warming increases soil temperatures and promotes faster growth and turnover of soil
microbial communities. As microbial cell walls contain a high proportion of organic nitrogen …

Soil warming duration and magnitude affect the dynamics of fine roots and rhizomes and associated C and N pools in subarctic grasslands

B Bhattarai, BD Sigurdsson, P Sigurdsson… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The response of subarctic grassland's below-ground to soil
warming is key to understanding this ecosystem's adaptation to future climate. Functionally …