It has been fun! 👍✨ Thanks @rousklab.bsky.social @seritafrey.bsky.social and MelKnorr

This suggests microbial trait optimisation can moderate carbon emissions, offering a simple mechanistic explanation for global observations and highlighting the need to integrate microbial dynamics into #climate models 🌍🧮

In SWaN #HarvardForest, we show that #microbes initially accelerate carbon release but then adjust their thermal traits, improving CUE and slowing SOC loss. Microbial #adaptation can buffer soils against long-term carbon loss 🔥🦠

... We're very exciting, and it is well worth a read! Enjoy! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

In this new paper, @albertbrangari.bsky.social develops a new theoretically grounded approach to represent both microbial growth and respiration in a unified framework that can be interfaced immediately into Earth System Models framework, thus incorporating ecological insights into biogeochemistry

...and that the temperature relationships for microbial growth and respiration actually differ (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10...., journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...), and are climate dependent (journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...), and can adapt to warming (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)

... Recent insights into microbial ecology has revealed that an Arrhenius representation is a poor fit to microbial process rates in soil (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10...., onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....

... Although the microbial metabolism that regulates soil C budgets -- respiration and growth, and their balance as the Carbon-use Efficiency (CUE) -- has been an active research area for over a Century, most attempts to model rates still relies on the assumption of an Arrhenius relationship...

... Because temperature is such a powerful driver of all biological process rates, understanding how temperature relationships for activity of organisms that drive elemental cycles is a key priority...

… and then some baseline measurements…

… an extensive process…

…. Part of the process…

Therefore, this year, we split all treatment plots and added P to each , to experimentally interrogate these intriguing suggestions, in work led by @agn-rzep.bsky.social backed by a strong team. What will we find?!

… adding up various lines of evidence collected over nearly a decade, it seems that decomposer microbes in our arctic heath site may be P limited, thus raising a totally new research question to adress!

… the microbial responses to simulated climate change probably is linked to the balance between resource availability and needs, highlighting the need ti resolve the limiting factors fir decomposer microbes and their responses to change esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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… and that resident microbes are primed by rhizosphere input of labile OM to mine N from soil OM as triggered by both pulses esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... and when root input is semi continuous www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... …

… and we have already learnt a lot! Early result suggested a microbial targeting of N from SOM link.springer.com/article/10.1...
, we learnt that microbial communities were selected by the treatment exposure to enhance their litter degrading performance www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... …