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Elevated temperature alters microbial communities, but not decomposition rates, during 3 years of <i>in situ</i> peat decomposition.

Year:
2023
Authors:
Roth SW et al.
Affiliation:
Biosciences Division · United States

Abstract

<h4>Importance</h4>Microbial community changes in response to climate change drivers have the potential to alter the trajectory of important ecosystem functions. In this paper, we show that while microbial communities in peatland systems responded to manipulations of temperature and CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations, these changes were not associated with similar responses in peat decomposition rates over 3 years. It is unclear however from our current studies whether this functional resiliency over 3 years will continue over the longer time scales relevant to peatland ecosystem functions.

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Original publication: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/37819069