Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems
Abstract Alpine tundra ecosystems suffer from ongoing warming-induced tree encroachment and vegetation shifts. While the effects of tree line expansion on the alpine ecosystem receive a lot of attention, there is also an urgent need for understanding the effect of climate change on shifts within alp...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/femsec/fiad041 2024-09-15T18:39:42+00:00 Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems Moravcová, Andrea Barbi, Florian Brabcová, Vendula Cajthaml, Tomáš Martinović, Tijana Soudzilovskaia, Nadia Vlk, Lukáš Baldrian, Petr Kohout, Petr Czech Science Foundation 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad041 https://academic.oup.com/femsec/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiad041/49799104/fiad041.pdf https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article-pdf/99/5/fiad041/50461296/fiad041.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model FEMS Microbiology Ecology volume 99, issue 5 ISSN 1574-6941 journal-article 2023 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad041 2024-08-12T04:23:04Z Abstract Alpine tundra ecosystems suffer from ongoing warming-induced tree encroachment and vegetation shifts. While the effects of tree line expansion on the alpine ecosystem receive a lot of attention, there is also an urgent need for understanding the effect of climate change on shifts within alpine vegetation itself, and how these shifts will consequently affect soil microorganisms and related ecosystem characteristics such as carbon storage. For this purpose, we explored relationships between climate, soil chemistry, vegetation, and fungal communities across seven mountain ranges at 16 alpine tundra locations in Europe. Among environmental factors, our data highlighted that plant community composition had the most important influence on variation in fungal community composition when considered in combination with other factors, while climatic factors had the most important influence solely. According to our results, we suggest that rising temperature, associated with a replacement of ericoid-dominated alpine vegetation by non-mycorrhizal or arbuscular mycorrhizal herbs and grasses, will induce profound changes in fungal communities toward higher dominance of saprotrophic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at the expense of fungal root endophytes. Consequently, topsoil fungal biomass and carbon content will decrease. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tundra Oxford University Press FEMS Microbiology Ecology 99 5 |
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Abstract Alpine tundra ecosystems suffer from ongoing warming-induced tree encroachment and vegetation shifts. While the effects of tree line expansion on the alpine ecosystem receive a lot of attention, there is also an urgent need for understanding the effect of climate change on shifts within alpine vegetation itself, and how these shifts will consequently affect soil microorganisms and related ecosystem characteristics such as carbon storage. For this purpose, we explored relationships between climate, soil chemistry, vegetation, and fungal communities across seven mountain ranges at 16 alpine tundra locations in Europe. Among environmental factors, our data highlighted that plant community composition had the most important influence on variation in fungal community composition when considered in combination with other factors, while climatic factors had the most important influence solely. According to our results, we suggest that rising temperature, associated with a replacement of ericoid-dominated alpine vegetation by non-mycorrhizal or arbuscular mycorrhizal herbs and grasses, will induce profound changes in fungal communities toward higher dominance of saprotrophic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi at the expense of fungal root endophytes. Consequently, topsoil fungal biomass and carbon content will decrease. |
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Moravcová, Andrea Barbi, Florian Brabcová, Vendula Cajthaml, Tomáš Martinović, Tijana Soudzilovskaia, Nadia Vlk, Lukáš Baldrian, Petr Kohout, Petr |
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Moravcová, Andrea Barbi, Florian Brabcová, Vendula Cajthaml, Tomáš Martinović, Tijana Soudzilovskaia, Nadia Vlk, Lukáš Baldrian, Petr Kohout, Petr Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems |
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Moravcová, Andrea Barbi, Florian Brabcová, Vendula Cajthaml, Tomáš Martinović, Tijana Soudzilovskaia, Nadia Vlk, Lukáš Baldrian, Petr Kohout, Petr |
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Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems |
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Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems |
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Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems |
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Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems |
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Climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems |
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climate-driven shifts in plant and fungal communities can lead to topsoil carbon loss in alpine ecosystems |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad041 https://academic.oup.com/femsec/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiad041/49799104/fiad041.pdf https://academic.oup.com/femsec/article-pdf/99/5/fiad041/50461296/fiad041.pdf |
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