Hot moments in the Antarctic due to climate warming?
Climate warming is severely affecting maritime Antarctica, causing accelerated glacier retreat and thus leading to an ongoing exposure of once ice- covered land. This initiates a succession of plant and soil development. Nevertheless, the temporal dynamics and controlling factors of these processes,...
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ftdbg:oai:eprints.dbges.de:1755 2023-05-15T13:47:33+02:00 Hot moments in the Antarctic due to climate warming? Sauheitl, L. Becher, T. Buegger, F. Godoy, R. Boy, D. Shibistova, O. Boy, J. Guggenberger, G. 2017-11 application/pdf https://eprints.dbges.de/1755/ https://eprints.dbges.de/1755/1/abstracts_DBG2017_463.pdf de ger https://eprints.dbges.de/1755/1/abstracts_DBG2017_463.pdf Sauheitl, L. und Becher, T. und Buegger, F. und Godoy, R. und Boy, D. und Shibistova, O. und Boy, J. und Guggenberger, G. (2017) Hot moments in the Antarctic due to climate warming? In: Jahrestagung der DBG 2017: Horizonte des Bodens, 02.-07.09.2017, Göttingen. Konferenz- oder Workshop-Beitrag NonPeerReviewed 2017 ftdbg 2021-09-02T09:59:19Z Climate warming is severely affecting maritime Antarctica, causing accelerated glacier retreat and thus leading to an ongoing exposure of once ice- covered land. This initiates a succession of plant and soil development. Nevertheless, the temporal dynamics and controlling factors of these processes, like C and N status of soils and the effect of root exudation are widely unknown under these harsh climatic conditions. Topsoil samples from three different sites of a chronological soil sequence in the forefront of a retreating glacier of the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, were collected and incubated at 2 °C for three weeks. To mimic the influence of C and N containing root exudates (primers) on the mineralization of soil C, we added 13C labeled glucose or alanine and compared CO2 evolution in comparison to samples without C and N addition. Soil microbes covered up to 90% of their C demand for anabolic functions with the added C-sources in the case of late soil successions while it was only 50% for the young soils. These findings were independent of the form of primer. Both primers increased the mineralization of soil carbon in the young soils as compared to the control. For the later stages of soil development, we found negative priming which was strongest for the latest stage. These results give evidence for a clear shift in the microbial community of the three investigated sites. While sites with initial soil formation seem to be dominated by k-strategists with low turnover rates that rather use complex C-sources, a significant number of r-strategists in the soils of the older sites uses simple C-substrates very efficiently. As this leads to a relative decrease in SOM mineralization for the late stages of soil development, it is questionable if higher plants can improve their nutrition by stimulating free living soil microbes with root exudates or if they rather have to rely on mycorrhiza. Conference Object Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica King George Island DBGPrints-Archive (German Soil Science Society) Antarctic The Antarctic King George Island Fildes ENVELOPE(-58.817,-58.817,-62.217,-62.217) Fildes peninsula ENVELOPE(-58.948,-58.948,-62.182,-62.182) |
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Climate warming is severely affecting maritime Antarctica, causing accelerated glacier retreat and thus leading to an ongoing exposure of once ice- covered land. This initiates a succession of plant and soil development. Nevertheless, the temporal dynamics and controlling factors of these processes, like C and N status of soils and the effect of root exudation are widely unknown under these harsh climatic conditions. Topsoil samples from three different sites of a chronological soil sequence in the forefront of a retreating glacier of the Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, were collected and incubated at 2 °C for three weeks. To mimic the influence of C and N containing root exudates (primers) on the mineralization of soil C, we added 13C labeled glucose or alanine and compared CO2 evolution in comparison to samples without C and N addition. Soil microbes covered up to 90% of their C demand for anabolic functions with the added C-sources in the case of late soil successions while it was only 50% for the young soils. These findings were independent of the form of primer. Both primers increased the mineralization of soil carbon in the young soils as compared to the control. For the later stages of soil development, we found negative priming which was strongest for the latest stage. These results give evidence for a clear shift in the microbial community of the three investigated sites. While sites with initial soil formation seem to be dominated by k-strategists with low turnover rates that rather use complex C-sources, a significant number of r-strategists in the soils of the older sites uses simple C-substrates very efficiently. As this leads to a relative decrease in SOM mineralization for the late stages of soil development, it is questionable if higher plants can improve their nutrition by stimulating free living soil microbes with root exudates or if they rather have to rely on mycorrhiza. |
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Sauheitl, L. Becher, T. Buegger, F. Godoy, R. Boy, D. Shibistova, O. Boy, J. Guggenberger, G. |
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Hot moments in the Antarctic due to climate warming? |
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https://eprints.dbges.de/1755/1/abstracts_DBG2017_463.pdf Sauheitl, L. und Becher, T. und Buegger, F. und Godoy, R. und Boy, D. und Shibistova, O. und Boy, J. und Guggenberger, G. (2017) Hot moments in the Antarctic due to climate warming? In: Jahrestagung der DBG 2017: Horizonte des Bodens, 02.-07.09.2017, Göttingen. |
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