Characterizing changes in soil bacterial community structure in response to short-term warming

Abstract High altitude alpine meadows are experiencing considerably greater than average increases in soil surface temperature, potentially as a result of ongoing climate change. The effects of warming on plant productivity and soil edaphic variables have been established previously, but the influen...

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Published in:FEMS microbiology ecology 2014-08, Vol.89 (2), p.281-292
Main Authors: Xiong, Jinbo, Sun, Huaibo, Peng, Fei, Zhang, Huayong, Xue, Xian, Gibbons, Sean M., Gilbert, Jack A., Chu, Haiyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actinobacteria
Actinobacteria - genetics
Alphaproteobacteria - genetics
Bacteria
bacterial community
BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biodiversity
Climate change
Community structure
Ecology
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Global Warming
Meadows
Microbiology
Molecular Typing
Plants - microbiology
Relative abundance
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics
Soil Microbiology
Soil structure
Soil surfaces
Soil temperature
soil warming
Soils
Surface temperature
Tibetan plateau
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Summary:Abstract High altitude alpine meadows are experiencing considerably greater than average increases in soil surface temperature, potentially as a result of ongoing climate change. The effects of warming on plant productivity and soil edaphic variables have been established previously, but the influence of warming on soil microbial community structure has not been well characterized. Here, the impact of 15 months of soil warming (both +1 and +2 °C) on bacterial community structure was examined in a field experiment on a Tibetan plateau alpine meadow using bar-coded pyrosequencing. Warming significantly changed (P
ISSN:0168-6496
1574-6941
DOI:10.1111/1574-6941.12289