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Kuczyńska K, Czerniawski R, Krepski T. Peat mine as a threat to the diversity of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in the protected area Nature 2000 in Poland. Bull Entomol Res 2024:1-8. [PMID: 38679948 DOI: 10.1017/s000748532400021x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2024]
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Peatlands, shaped by centuries of human activities, now face a primary threat from mining activities. Vulnerable to drainage and hydrological instability, peatland areas encounter challenges that compromise their ecological integrity. This study hypothesised that permanent water reservoirs within mines could serve as refugia for water beetles from adjacent areas prone to drying in the summer. Employing standard methods, including entomological scraping and water traps, samples were collected. Results revealed that, in most cases, water beetles exhibited a preference for the Nature 2000 area untouched by mining. Despite unfavourable conditions, the Nature 2000 area showcased a more diverse water beetle fauna. Remarkably, the selected Nature 2000 area, despite its identified degradation based on flora, remained a biodiversity hotspot for peatland water beetle fauna. The study underscores the significance of assessing insects, particularly beetles, as rapid responders to environmental changes. This evaluation holds crucial implications for peatland restoration planning and decision-making regarding mining investments in proximity to peatland areas.
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- Katarzyna Kuczyńska
- Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Hydrobiology, Institute of Biology, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland
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Borkenhagen A, Cooper DJ, House M, Vitt DH. Establishing peat-forming plant communities: A comparison of wetland reclamation methods in Alberta's oil sands region. Ecol Appl 2024; 34:e2929. [PMID: 37942503 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2023] [Revised: 08/23/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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The Sandhill Wetland (SW) and Nikanotee Fen (NF) are two wetland research projects designed to test the viability of peatland reclamation in the Alberta oil sands post-mining landscape. To identify effective approaches for establishing peat-forming vegetation in reclaimed wetlands, we evaluated how plant introduction approaches and water level gradients influence species distribution, plant community development, and the establishment of bryophyte and peatland species richness and cover. Plant introduction approaches included seeding with a Carex aquatilis-dominated seed mix, planting C. aquatilis and Juncus balticus seedlings, and spreading a harvested moss layer transfer. Establishment was assessed 6 years after the introduction at SW and 5 years after the introduction at NF. In total, 51 species were introduced to the reclaimed wetlands, and 122 species were observed after 5 and 6 years. The most abundant species in both reclaimed wetlands was C. aquatilis, which produced dense canopies and occupied the largest water level range of observed plants. Introducing C. aquatilis also helped to exclude marsh plants such as Typha latifolia that has little to no peat accumulation potential. Juncus balticus persisted where the water table was lower and encouraged the formation of a diverse peatland community and facilitated bryophyte establishment. Various bryophytes colonized suitable areas, but the moss layer transfer increased the cover of desirable peat-forming mosses. Communities with the highest bryophyte and peatland species richness and cover (averaging 9 and 14 species, and 50%-160% cover respectively) occurred where the summer water level was between -10 and -40 cm. Outside this water level range, a marsh community of Typha latifolia dominated in standing water and a wet meadow upland community of Calamagrostis canadensis and woody species established where the water table was deeper. Overall, the two wetland reclamation projects demonstrated that establishing peat-forming vascular plants and bryophytes is possible, and community formation is dependent upon water level and plant introduction approaches. Future projects should aim to create microtopography with water tables within 40 cm of the surface and introduce vascular plants such as J. balticus that facilitate bryophyte establishment and support the development of a diverse peatland plant community.
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- Andrea Borkenhagen
- Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences-Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences-Plant Biology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA
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Chen YD, Liu C, Moles A, Jassey VEJ, Bu ZJ. A hidden herbivory effect on Sphagnum reproduction. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2024; 26:214-222. [PMID: 38192088 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024]
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Defence theories provide predictions about trade-offs in the allocation of resources to defence and growth. However, very little is known about how pressure from herbivores influences the allocation of resources during reproduction. Two common peatland bryophyte species, Sphagnum angustifolium and S. capillifolium, were chosen as study species. Vegetative and reproductive shoots of both Sphagnum species were subjected to treatments with and without herbivores in a lab experiment. After 4 weeks of exposure to herbivores in a growth chamber, we measured biomass production, net photosynthesis rate, defence traits (phenolics in leachate and phenolics in extract), nonstructural carbohydrates (soluble sugar and starch), and reproductive traits (capsule number, weight and diameter, and spore germination) of both Sphagnum species. Reproductive shoots had higher constitutive defence than vegetative shoots in S. angustifolium, and a similar pattern was observed in S. capillifolium. With herbivory, reproductive shoots showed stronger induced defence (released more phenolics) than vegetative shoots in S. capillifolium, but not in S. angustifolium. Herbivory had no effect on capsule number, weight, or diameter, but reduced spore germination percentage by more than half in both species. Our study highlights the hidden effects of herbivory on reproduction of Sphagnum and indicates the presence of maternal effects in bryophytes. Ecologists will benefit from examining both quality- and quantity-based traits when attempting to estimate the herbivory effect on plant fitness.
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- Y-D Chen
- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Changchun, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
- Peatland Ecology Research Group and Centre for Northern Studies, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (LEFE), Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Changchun, China
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Defrenne CE, Moore JAM, Tucker CL, Lamit LJ, Kane ES, Kolka RK, Chimner RA, Keller JK, Lilleskov EA. Peat loss collocates with a threshold in plant-mycorrhizal associations in drained peatlands encroached by trees. New Phytol 2023; 240:412-425. [PMID: 37148190 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We profiled the soil fungal community and estimated its genetic potential for the decay of lignin and phenolics (class II peroxidase potential) along peatland drainage gradients stretching from interior locations (undrained, open) to ditched locations (drained, forested). Mycorrhizal fungi dominated the community across the gradients. When moving towards ditches, the dominant type of mycorrhizal association abruptly shifted from ericoid mycorrhiza to ectomycorrhiza at c. 120 m from the ditches. This distance corresponded with increased peat loss, from which more than half may be attributed to oxidation. The ectomycorrhizal genus Cortinarius dominated at the drained end of the gradients and its relatively higher genetic potential to produce class II peroxidases (together with Mycena) was positively associated with peat humification and negatively with carbon-to-nitrogen ratio. Our study is consistent with a plant-soil feedback mechanism, driven by a shift in the mycorrhizal type of vegetation, that potentially mediates changes in aerobic decomposition during postdrainage succession. Such feedback may have long-term legacy effects upon postdrainage restoration efforts and implication for tree encroachment onto carbon-rich soils globally.
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- USDA Forest Service-Northern Research Station, Houghton, MI, 49931, USA
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- Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA
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- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, 49931, USA
- USDA Forest Service-Northern Research Station, Houghton, MI, 49931, USA
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- U.S. Forest Service-Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, 55744, USA
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- Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA, 92866, USA
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- USDA Forest Service-Northern Research Station, Houghton, MI, 49931, USA
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Norby RJ, Baxter T, Živković T, Weston DJ. Shading contributes to Sphagnum decline in response to warming. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e10542. [PMID: 37732286 PMCID: PMC10507575 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/22/2023] Open
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Experimental warming of an ombrotrophic bog in northern Minnesota has caused a rapid decline in the productivity and areal cover of Sphagnum mosses, affecting whole-ecosystem carbon balance and biogeochemistry. Direct effects of elevated temperature and the attendant drying are most likely the primary cause of the effects on Sphagnum, but there may also be responses to the increased shading from shrubs, which increased with increasing temperature. To evaluate the independent effects of reduction in light availability and deposition of shrub litter on Sphagnum productivity, small plots with shrubs removed were laid out adjacent to the warming experiment on hummocks and hollows in three blocks and with five levels of shading. Four plots were covered with neutral density shade cloth to simulate shading from shrubs of 30%-90% reduction in light; one plot was left open. Growth of Sphagnum angustifolium/fallax and S. divinum declined linearly with increasing shade in hollows, but there was no response to shade on hummocks, where higher irradiance in the open plots may have been inhibitory. Shading caused etiolation of Sphagnum-they were thin and spindly under the deepest shade. A dense mat of shrub litter, corresponding to the amount of shrub litter produced in response to warming, did not inhibit Sphagnum growth or cause increases in potentially toxic base cations. CO2 exchange and chlorophyll-a fluorescence of S. angustifolium/fallax from the 30% and 90% shade cloth plots were measured in the laboratory. Light response curves indicate that maximal light saturated photosynthesis was 42% greater for S. angustifolium/fallax grown under 30% shade cloth relative to plants grown under 90% shade cloth. The response of Sphagnum growth in response to increasing shade is consistent with the hypothesis that increased shade resulting from shrub expansion in response to experimental warming contributed to reduced Sphagnum growth.
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- Richard J Norby
- Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge Tennessee USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA
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- Department of Biology Dalhousie University Halifax Nova Scotia Canada
- Biological Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge Tennessee USA
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- Biological Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge Tennessee USA
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Jiang JY, Sun XX, Wang XW, Wang SJ, Ma GB, Chen N, DU Y. Seasonal variation characteristics and influencing factors of dissolved organic carbon of soil water in permafrost peatlands of the Great Hing'an Mountains in summer and autumn. Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 2023; 34:2413-2420. [PMID: 37899107 DOI: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202309.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2023]
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Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) plays a crucial role in the assessment of greenhouse gas emission and carbon balance in peatlands. However, limited research has been conducted on the seasonal variations and properties of soil water DOC content at different depths in the permafrost peatlands of the Great Hing'an Mountains. In this study, we analyzed the seasonal patterns of soil water DOC contents (surface, 10 cm, 20 cm, 30 cm, 40 cm, and permafrost layer) the permafrost peatlands of the Great Hing'an Mountains (Tuqiang Forestry Bureau), and investigated the influencing factors, such as electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen, HCO3- concentration, pH value, oxidation-reduction potential, and CO2 content. The stability of DOC was assessed by using UV-Vis spectrum. There were significant seasonal dynamics of DOC content in soil water, with higher contents in autumn and lower content in summer, ranging from 55.7 to 188.1 mg·L-1. There were significant differences in DOC content among different soil depths, with the highest levels detected in the permafrost layer. The DOC content showed a significantly positive correlation with pH value and electrical conductivity, while showed a significantly negative correlation with redox potential, HCO3- concentration, and dissolved oxygen content. Additionally, there was a significantly positive correlation between DOC and CO2 contents. The dissolved CO2 content in soil water increased with soil depth, with the highest content observed in the permafrost layer. Results of spectral analysis showed higher aromaticity in autumn compared to summer, indicating greater stability of DOC during the autumn season. Our results clarified the seasonal variations of soil water DOC in permafrost peatlands of the Great Hing'an Mountains and could provide important data to understand the carbon cycling in the region.
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- Jing-Yi Jiang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
- Heilongjiang Sanjiang Plain Wetland Ecosystem National Positioning Observation and Research Station, Fuyuan 156500, Heilongjiang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management, School of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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Schädel C, Seyednasrollah B, Hanson PJ, Hufkens K, Pearson KJ, Warren JM, Richardson AD. Using long-term data from a whole ecosystem warming experiment to identify best spring and autumn phenology models. Plant Environ Interact 2023; 4:188-200. [PMID: 37583877 PMCID: PMC10423976 DOI: 10.1002/pei3.10118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/18/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
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Predicting vegetation phenology in response to changing environmental factors is key in understanding feedbacks between the biosphere and the climate system. Experimental approaches extending the temperature range beyond historic climate variability provide a unique opportunity to identify model structures that are best suited to predicting phenological changes under future climate scenarios. Here, we model spring and autumn phenological transition dates obtained from digital repeat photography in a boreal Picea-Sphagnum bog in response to a gradient of whole ecosystem warming manipulations of up to +9°C, using five years of observational data. In spring, seven equally best-performing models for Larix utilized the accumulation of growing degree days as a common driver for temperature forcing. For Picea, the best two models were sequential models requiring winter chilling before spring forcing temperature is accumulated. In shrub, parallel models with chilling and forcing requirements occurring simultaneously were identified as the best models. Autumn models were substantially improved when a CO2 parameter was included. Overall, the combination of experimental manipulations and multiple years of observations combined with variation in weather provided the framework to rule out a large number of candidate models and to identify best spring and autumn models for each plant functional type.
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- Christina Schädel
- Center for Ecosystem Science and SocietyNorthern Arizona UniversityFlagstaffArizonaUSA
- Woodwell Climate Research CenterFalmouthMassachusettsUSA
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber SystemsNorthern Arizona UniversityFlagstaffArizonaUSA
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- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science InstituteOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTennesseeUSA
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- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science InstituteOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTennesseeUSA
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- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science InstituteOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTennesseeUSA
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and SocietyNorthern Arizona UniversityFlagstaffArizonaUSA
- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber SystemsNorthern Arizona UniversityFlagstaffArizonaUSA
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Song T, Liu Y, Kolton M, Wilson RM, Keller JK, Rolando JL, Chanton JP, Kostka JE. Porewater constituents inhibit microbially mediated greenhouse gas production (GHG) and regulate the response of soil organic matter decomposition to warming in anoxic peat from a Sphagnum-dominated bog. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2023; 99:fiad060. [PMID: 37280172 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2022] [Revised: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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Northern peatlands store approximately one-third of terrestrial soil carbon. Climate warming is expected to stimulate the microbially mediated degradation of peat soil organic matter (SOM), leading to increasing greenhouse gas (GHG; carbon dioxide, CO2; methane, CH4) production and emission. Porewater dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays a key role in SOM decomposition; however, the mechanisms controlling SOM decomposition and its response to warming remain unclear. The temperature dependence of GHG production and microbial community dynamics were investigated in anoxic peat from a Sphagnum-dominated peatland. In this study, peat decomposition, which was quantified by GHG production and carbon substrate utilization is limited by terminal electron acceptors (TEA) and DOM, and these controls of microbially mediated SOM degradation are temperature-dependent. Elevated temperature led to a slight decrease in microbial diversity, and stimulated the growth of specific methanotrophic and syntrophic taxa. These results confirm that DOM is a major driver of decomposition in peatland soils contains inhibitory compounds, but the inhibitory effect is alleviated by warming.
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- Tianze Song
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
- Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, University Park, PA 16802, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, 8499000, Israel
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- Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304, United States
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- Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, 1 University Dr, Orange, CA 92866, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
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- Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304, United States
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318, United States
- Center for Microbial Dynamics and Infection, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
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Băncilă RI, Cogӑlniceanu D, Manu M, Plăiaş U R, Stănescu F, Memedemin D, Skolka M, Tofan L, Lăcătuşu A. A Multi-Community Approach in Biodiversity Assessment of a Peat Bog in the Southern Carpathians (Romania) and Implications for Conservation. Environ Entomol 2023; 52:217-229. [PMID: 36812367 DOI: 10.1093/ee/nvad004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Although natural peatlands have been recognized as an important type of wetlands because they support high biodiversity and provide important ecosystem services, the value of peatlands both in biodiversity research and conservation is still largely underestimated. Our study characterizes the biodiversity and conservation value of Peşteana peat bog, an upland mesotrophic peat bog, located in the Southern Carpathians, Romania. More specifically, we: (1) characterized the invertebrate (i.e., top soil, surface litter, and plant-dwelling) and plant communities along a humidity gradient in Peşteana peat bog and nearby habitats (i.e., treeline, ecotone, lowland and highland meadow, and forest), (2) assessed the main environmental factors driving the invertebrate community diversity and composition, and (3) determined the relationship between invertebrate community diversity and vegetation, focusing on the top soil invertebrates. Our study revealed a high diversity of invertebrates spanning over 43 taxonomic groups and a high number of plant indicator species, emphasizing the role of natural peatlands in preserving diverse communities in a small area. The results showed that the composition of top soil invertebrate community was determined by depth of organic layer, vegetation cover, and soil compaction. We found that the diversity of top soil invertebrate community was strongly influenced by habitat type and soil attributes and weakly by vegetation. Overall, the invertebrate and plant communities showed different responses to habitat conditions along the humidity gradient. This highlights the importance of using a multi-community approach to support the design of effective conservation and management actions beneficial for a wide range of taxa.
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- Raluca I Băncilă
- "Emil Racoviţă" Institute of Speleology of Romanian Academy of Science, Bucharest, Romania
- Ovidius University Constanţa, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Constanţa, Romania
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- Ovidius University Constanţa, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Constanţa, Romania
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- Romanian Academy, Institute of Biology Bucharest, Department of Taxonomy, Ecology and Nature Conservation, Bucharest, Romania
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- "Emil Racoviţă" Institute of Speleology of Romanian Academy of Science, Bucharest, Romania
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- Ovidius University Constanţa, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Constanţa, Romania
- Ovidius University Constanţa, Black Sea Institute for Development and Security Studies, Constanţa, Romania
- Ovidius University Constanţa, Center for Morphological and Genetic Studies of Malignant Pathology (CEDMOG), Constanţa, Romania
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- Ovidius University Constanţa, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Constanţa, Romania
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- Ovidius University Constanţa, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Constanţa, Romania
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- Ovidius University Constanţa, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Constanţa, Romania
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- National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Environment - ICPA Bucharest, Romania
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Kolari THM, Tahvanainen T. Inference of future bog succession trajectory from spatial chronosequence of changing aapa mires. Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e9988. [PMID: 37082320 PMCID: PMC10111175 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2022] [Revised: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 04/22/2023] Open
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Climate change-driven vegetation changes can alter the ecosystem functions of northern peatlands. Several case studies have documented fen-to-bog transition (FBT) over recent decades, which can have major implications, as increased bog growth would likely cause cooling feedback. However, studies beyond individual cases are missing to infer if a common trajectory or many alternatives of FBT are in progress. We explored plant community and hydrology patterns during FBT of 23 boreal aapa mire complexes in Finland. We focused on mires where comparisons of historical (1940-1970) and new (2017-2019) aerial photographs indicated an expansion of Sphagnum-dominated zones. Vegetation plot and water chemistry data were collected from string-flark fens, transition zones with indications of Sphagnum increase, and bog zones; thus, in a chronosequence with a decadal time span. We ask, is there a common trajectory or many alternatives of FBT in progress, and what are the main characteristics (species and traits) of transitional plant communities? We found a pattern of fen-bog transitions via an increase in Sphagnum sect. Cuspidata (mainly S. majus and S. balticum), indicating a consistently high water table. Indicators only of transitional communities were scarce (Sphagnum lindbergii), but FBT had apparently facilitated shallow-rooted aerenchymatous vascular plants, especially Scheuchzeria palustris. Water pH consistently reflected the chronosequence with averages of 4.2, 3.9, and 3.8, from fen to transition and bog zones. Due to weak minerotrophy of string-flark fens, species richness increased towards bogs, but succession led to reduced beta diversity and homogenization among bog sites. Decadal chronosequence suggested a future fen-bog transition through a wet phase, instead of a drying trend. Transitional poor-fen vegetation was characterized by the abundance of Sphagnum lindbergii, S. majus, and Scheuchzeria palustris. Sphagnum mosses likely benefit from longer growing seasons and consistently wet and acidic conditions of aapa mires.
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- Tiina H. M. Kolari
- Department of Environmental and Biological SciencesUniversity of Eastern FinlandP.O. Box 111JoensuuFI‐80101Finland
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- Department of Environmental and Biological SciencesUniversity of Eastern FinlandP.O. Box 111JoensuuFI‐80101Finland
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Younes K, Moghnie S, Khader L, Obeid E, Mouhtady O, Grasset L, Murshid N. Application of Unsupervised Learning for the Evaluation of Burial Behavior of Geomaterials in Peatlands: Case of Lignin Moieties Yielded by Alkaline Oxidative Cleavage. Polymers (Basel) 2023; 15:polym15051200. [PMID: 36904440 PMCID: PMC10007676 DOI: 10.3390/polym15051200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2023] Open
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Tropical Peatlands accumulate organic matter (OM) and a significant source of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) under anoxic conditions. However, it is still ambiguous where in the peat profile these OM and gases are produced. The composition of organic macromolecules that are present in peatland ecosystems are mainly lignin and polysaccharides. As greater concentrations of lignin are found to be strongly related to the high CO2 and CH4 concentrations under anoxic conditions in the surface peat, the need to study the degradation of lignin under anoxic and oxic conditions has emerged. In this study, we found that the "Wet Chemical Degradation" approach is the most preferable and qualified to evaluate the lignin degradation in soils accurately. Then, we applied PCA for the molecular fingerprint consisting of 11 major phenolic sub-units produced by alkaline oxidation using cupric oxide (II) along with alkaline hydrolysis of the lignin sample presented in the investigated peat column called "Sagnes". The development of various characteristic indicators for lignin degradation state on the basis of the relative distribution of lignin phenols was measured by chromatography after CuO-NaOH oxidation. In order to achieve this aim, the so-called Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been applied for the molecular fingerprint composed of the phenolic sub-units, yielded by CuO-NaOH oxidation. This approach aims to seek the efficiency of the already available proxies and potentially create new ones for the investigation of lignin burial along a peatland. Lignin phenol vegetation index (LPVI) is used for comparison. LPVI showed a higher correlation with PC1 rather than PC2. This confirms the potential of the application of LPVI to decipher vegetation change, even in a dynamic system as the peatland. The population is composed of the depth peat samples, and the variables are the proxies and relative contributions of the 11 yielded phenolic sub-units.
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- Khaled Younes
- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait
- Correspondence: (K.Y.); (L.G.)
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait
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- Université de Poitiers, IC2MP, UMR CNRS 7285, 4 rue Michel Brunet, TSA 51106, CEDEX 9, 86073 Poitiers, France
- Correspondence: (K.Y.); (L.G.)
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait
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Keith DA, Benson DH, Baird IRC, Watts L, Simpson CC, Krogh M, Gorissen S, Ferrer‐Paris JR, Mason TJ. Effects of interactions between anthropogenic stressors and recurring perturbations on ecosystem resilience and collapse. Conserv Biol 2023; 37:e13995. [PMID: 36047682 PMCID: PMC10100014 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Insights into declines in ecosystem resilience and their causes and effects can inform preemptive action to avoid ecosystem collapse and loss of biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being. Empirical studies of ecosystem collapse are rare and hampered by ecosystem complexity, nonlinear and lagged responses, and interactions across scales. We investigated how an anthropogenic stressor could diminish ecosystem resilience to a recurring perturbation by altering a critical ecosystem driver. We studied groundwater-dependent, peat-accumulating, fire-prone wetlands known as upland swamps in southeastern Australia. We hypothesized that underground mining (stressor) reduces resilience of these wetlands to landscape fires (perturbation) by diminishing groundwater, a key ecosystem driver. We monitored soil moisture as an indicator of ecosystem resilience during and after underground mining. After landscape fire, we compared responses of multiple state variables representing ecosystem structure, composition, and function in swamps within the mining footprint with unmined reference swamps. Soil moisture declined without recovery in swamps with mine subsidence (i.e., undermined), but was maintained in reference swamps over 8 years (effect size 1.8). Relative to burned reference swamps, burned undermined swamps showed greater loss of peat via substrate combustion; reduced cover, height, and biomass of regenerating vegetation; reduced postfire plant species richness and abundance; altered plant species composition; increased mortality rates of woody plants; reduced postfire seedling recruitment; and extirpation of a hydrophilic animal. Undermined swamps therefore showed strong symptoms of postfire ecosystem collapse, whereas reference swamps regenerated vigorously. We found that an anthropogenic stressor diminished the resilience of an ecosystem to recurring perturbations, predisposing it to collapse. Avoidance of ecosystem collapse hinges on early diagnosis of mechanisms and preventative risk reduction. It may be possible to delay or ameliorate symptoms of collapse or to restore resilience, but the latter appears unlikely in our study system due to fundamental alteration of a critical ecosystem driver. Efectos de las interacciones entre los estresantes antropogénicos y las perturbaciones recurrentes sobre la resiliencia y el colapso de los ecosistemas.
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- David A. Keith
- Centre for Ecosystem ScienceUniversity of New South WalesSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- NSW Department of Planning and EnvironmentParramattaNew South WalesAustralia
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- Australian Institute of Botanical ScienceRoyal Botanic GardensSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Independent conservation biologistKatoombaNew South WalesAustralia
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- Centre for Ecosystem ScienceUniversity of New South WalesSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- Australian Institute of Botanical ScienceRoyal Botanic GardensSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Centre for Ecosystem ScienceUniversity of New South WalesSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- NSW Department of Planning and EnvironmentParramattaNew South WalesAustralia
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- NSW Department of Planning and EnvironmentParramattaNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of SydneySydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Centre for Ecosystem ScienceUniversity of New South WalesSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- Centre for Ecosystem ScienceUniversity of New South WalesSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- NSW Department of Planning and EnvironmentParramattaNew South WalesAustralia
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Cooper RE, Finck J, Chan C, Küsel K. Mixotrophy broadens the ecological niche range of the iron oxidizer Sideroxydans sp. CL21 isolated from an iron-rich peatland. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2023; 99:6979798. [PMID: 36623865 PMCID: PMC9925335 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiac156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Revised: 11/17/2022] [Accepted: 01/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Sideroxydans sp. CL21 is a microaerobic, acid-tolerant Fe(II)-oxidizer, isolated from the Schlöppnerbrunnen fen. Since the genome size of Sideroxydans sp. CL21 is 21% larger than that of the neutrophilic Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1, we hypothesized that strain CL21 contains additional metabolic traits to thrive in the fen. The common genomic content of both strains contains homologs of the putative Fe(II) oxidation genes, mtoAB and cyc2. A large part of the accessory genome in strain CL21 contains genes linked to utilization of alternative electron donors, including NiFe uptake hydrogenases, and genes encoding lactate uptake and utilization proteins, motility and biofilm formation, transposable elements, and pH homeostasis mechanisms. Next, we incubated the strain in different combinations of electron donors and characterized the fen microbial communities. Sideroxydans spp. comprised 3.33% and 3.94% of the total relative abundance in the peatland soil and peatland water, respectively. Incubation results indicate Sideroxydans sp. CL21 uses H2 and thiosulfate, while lactate only enhances growth when combined with Fe, H2, or thiosulfate. Rates of H2 utilization were highest in combination with other substrates. Thus, Sideroxydans sp. CL21 is a mixotroph, growing best by simultaneously using substrate combinations, which helps to thrive in dynamic and complex habitats.
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- Rebecca E Cooper
- Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Aquatic Geomicrobiology, Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, United States,Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19713, United States,Department of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, United States
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- Corresponding author. Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Str. 159, 07743 Jena, Germany. Tel: +49 3641 949461; Fax: +49 3641 949462; E-mail:
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Liu L, Wang Z, Ma D, Zhang M, Fu L. Diversity and Distribution Characteristics of Soil Microbes across Forest- Peatland Ecotones in the Permafrost Regions. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:14782. [PMID: 36429502 PMCID: PMC9690085 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192214782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Permafrost peatlands are a huge carbon pool that is uniquely sensitive to global warming. However, despite the importance of peatlands in global carbon sequestration and biogeochemical cycles, few studies have characterized the distribution characteristics and drivers of soil microbial community structure in forest-peatland ecotones. Here, we investigated the vertical distribution patterns of soil microbial communities in three typical peatlands along an environmental gradient using Illumina high-throughput sequencing. Our findings indicated that bacterial richness and diversity decreased with increasing soil depth in coniferous swamp (LT) and thicket swamp (HT), whereas the opposite trend was observed in a tussock swamp (NT). Additionally, these parameters decreased at 0-20 and 20-40 cm and increased at 40-60 cm along the environmental gradient (LT to NT). Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) indicated that the soil microbial community structure was more significantly affected by peatland type than soil depth. Actinomycetota, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Chloroflexota, Acidobacteriota, and Bacteroidota were the predominant bacterial phyla across all soil samples. Moreover, there were no significant differences in the functional pathways between the three peatlands at each depth, except for amino acid metabolism, membrane transport, cell motility, and signal transduction. Redundancy analysis (RDA) revealed that pH and soil water content were the primary environmental factors influencing the bacterial community structure. Therefore, this study is crucial to accurately forecast potential changes in peatland ecosystems and improve our understanding of the role of peat microbes as carbon pumps in the process of permafrost degradation.
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- Correspondence: (Z.W.); (D.M.); Tel.: +86-451-88060524 (Z.W. & D.M.)
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- Correspondence: (Z.W.); (D.M.); Tel.: +86-451-88060524 (Z.W. & D.M.)
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Gao JL, Song YY, Song CC, Gong C, Ma XY, Gao SQ, Liu ZD. [Change in nitrogen availability of northern peatlands and its effect on carbon sink function]. Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 2022; 33:2663-2669. [PMID: 36384600 DOI: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202210.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Northern peatlands are typical nitrogen-limited ecosystems, which are sensitive to global climate change and human activities. The increases of endogenous available nitrogen caused by climate warming and exogenous nitrogen input caused by human activities changed the nitrogen availability of northern peatlands, and would affect carbon and nitrogen cycling and carbon sink function of peatland. Here, we review the influence factors of carbon accumulation rate and carbon sink function in northern peatlands. The effects of nitrogen deposition, freezing and thawing, fire and other factors on nitrogen availability of northern peatlands were reviewed. The responses of plants and soil microorganisms to changes in nitrogen availability were elaborated from carbon fixation and carbon emission processes, respectively. The research related to carbon sink function of peat ecosystems under the influence of glo-bal change was prospected, aiming to help the implementation of the 'double carbon' goal.
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- Jin-Li Gao
- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
- Faculty of Infrastructure Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, Liaoning, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Reed CC, Berhe AA, Moreland KC, Wilcox J, Sullivan BW. Restoring function: Positive responses of carbon and nitrogen to 20 years of hydrologic restoration in montane meadows. Ecol Appl 2022; 32:e2677. [PMID: 35587656 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Montane meadows are highly productive ecosystems that contain high densities of soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N). However, anthropogenic disturbances that have led to channel incision and disconnected floodplain hydrology have altered the C balance of many meadows, converting them from net C sinks to net sources of C to the atmosphere. Restoration efforts designed to reconnect floodplain hydrology may slow rates of soil C loss from degraded meadows and restore the conditions for C sequestration and N immobilization, yet questions remain about the long-term impact of such efforts. Here, we used a 22-year meadow restoration chronosequence to measure the decadal impact of hydrologic restoration on aboveground and belowground C and N stocks and concentrations. Increases in herbaceous vegetation biomass preceded changes in soil C stocks, with the largest gains occurring belowground. Root biomass (0-15 cm) increased at a rate of 270.3 g m-2 year-1 and soil C stocks (0-15 cm) increased by 232.9 g C m-2 year-1 across the chronosequence. Increases in soil C concentration (2.99 g C kg-1 year-1 ) were tightly coupled with increases in soil N concentration (0.21 g N kg-1 year-1 ) and soil C:N did not vary with time since restoration. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy results showed that the fraction of labile aliphatic C-H and carboxylate C-O (COO) compounds in the soil increased with the age of restoration and were positively correlated with soil C and N concentrations. Our results demonstrate that restoration of floodplain hydrology in montane meadows has significant impacts on belowground C and N stocks, soil C and N concentration, and soil C chemistry within the first two decades following restoration.
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- Cody C Reed
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, The University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, California, USA
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- Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA
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- Plumas Corporation, Quincy, California, USA
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- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, The University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
- The Global Water Center, The University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
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Begmatov S, Beletsky AV, Dedysh SN, Mardanov AV, Ravin NV. Genome analysis of the candidate phylum MBNT15 bacterium from a boreal peatland predicted its respiratory versatility and dissimilatory iron metabolism. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:951761. [PMID: 35992725 PMCID: PMC9386147 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.951761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 07/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Uncultured bacteria of the candidate phylum MBNT15, distantly related to Desulfobacterota, have been identified in a broad range of mostly organic-rich aquatic environments. We assembled a near-complete genome of a member of MBNT15 from a boreal peatland metagenome and used genomic data to analyze the metabolic pathways of this bacterium and its ecological role. This bacterium, designated SHF-111, was predicted to be rod shaped, it lacks flagellar machinery but twitching motility is encoded. Genome-based phylogenetic analysis supported the phylum-level classification of the MBNT15 lineage. Genome annotation and metabolic reconstruction revealed the presence of the Embden-Meyerhof, Entner-Doudoroff and pentose phosphate pathways, as well as the complete tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, and suggested a facultatively anaerobic chemoheterotrophic lifestyle with the ability to ferment peptides, amino acids, fatty acids and simple sugars, and completely oxidize these substrates through aerobic and anaerobic respiration. The SHF-111 genome encodes multiple multiheme c-type cytochromes that probably enable dissimilatory iron reduction. Consistently, the relative abundance of MBNT15 in peatlands positively correlated with iron concentration. Apparently, in the wetland ecosystem, MBNT15 representatives play the role of scavengers, carrying out the complete mineralization of low molecular weight organic substances formed as a result of microbial degradation of complex polymeric substrates. Comparative genome analysis of the MBNT15 phylum revealed that vast majority of its members are capable of aerobic respiration and dissimilatory iron reduction and some species also can reduce sulfur and nitrogen compounds, but not sulfate. Based on phylogenetic and genomic analyses, the novel bacterium is proposed to be classified as Candidatus Deferrimicrobium borealis, within a candidate phylum Deferrimicrobiota.
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- Shahjahon Begmatov
- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Carrell AA, Lawrence TJ, Cabugao KGM, Carper DL, Pelletier DA, Lee JH, Jawdy SS, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Hanson PJ, Shaw AJ, Weston DJ. Habitat-adapted microbial communities mediate Sphagnum peatmoss resilience to warming. New Phytol 2022; 234:2111-2125. [PMID: 35266150 PMCID: PMC9310625 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Sphagnum peatmosses are fundamental members of peatland ecosystems, where they contribute to the uptake and long-term storage of atmospheric carbon. Warming threatens Sphagnum mosses and is known to alter the composition of their associated microbiome. Here, we use a microbiome transfer approach to test if microbiome thermal origin influences host plant thermotolerance. We leveraged an experimental whole-ecosystem warming study to collect field-grown Sphagnum, mechanically separate the associated microbiome and then transfer onto germ-free laboratory Sphagnum for temperature experiments. Host and microbiome dynamics were assessed with growth analysis, Chla fluorescence imaging, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and 16S rDNA profiling. Microbiomes originating from warming field conditions imparted enhanced thermotolerance and growth recovery at elevated temperatures. Metagenome and metatranscriptome analyses revealed that warming altered microbial community structure in a manner that induced the plant heat shock response, especially the HSP70 family and jasmonic acid production. The heat shock response was induced even without warming treatment in the laboratory, suggesting that the warm-microbiome isolated from the field provided the host plant with thermal preconditioning. Our results demonstrate that microbes, which respond rapidly to temperature alterations, can play key roles in host plant growth response to rapidly changing environments.
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- Alyssa A. Carrell
- Biosciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Biosciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate EducationUniversity of Tennessee1502 Cumberland Ave.KnoxvilleTN37996USA
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- Biosciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Biosciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Biosciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Biosciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology601 Genome WayHuntsvilleAL35806USA
- Department of Energy Joint Genome InstituteLawrence Berkeley National Lab1 Cyclotron Rd.BerkeleyCA94720USA
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- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology601 Genome WayHuntsvilleAL35806USA
- Department of Energy Joint Genome InstituteLawrence Berkeley National Lab1 Cyclotron Rd.BerkeleyCA94720USA
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- Environmental Sciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Biosciences DivisionOak Ridge National Laboratory1 Bethel Valley RdOak RidgeTN37831USA
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Rober AR, McCann KS, Turetsky MR, Wyatt KH. Cascading effects of predators on algal size structure. J Phycol 2022; 58:308-317. [PMID: 35032342 DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The presence of edible and inedible prey species in a food web can influence the strength that nutrients (bottom-up) or herbivores (top-down) have on primary production. In boreal peatlands, wetter more nutrient-rich conditions associated with ongoing climate change are expanding consumer access to aquatic habitat and promoting sources of primary production (i.e., algae) that are susceptible to trophic regulation. Here, we used an in situ mesocosm experiment to evaluate the consequences of enhanced nutrient availability and food-web manipulation (herbivore and predator exclusion) on algal assemblage structure in an Alaskan fen. Owing to the potential for herbivores to selectively consume edible algae (small cells) in favor of more resistant forms, we predicted that the proportion of less-edible algae (large cells) would determine the strength of top-down or bottom-up effects. Consistent with these expectations, we observed an increase in algal-cell size in the presence of herbivores (2-tiered food web) that was absent in the presence of a trophic cascade (3-tiered food web), suggesting that predators indirectly prevented morphological changes in the algal assemblage by limiting herbivory. Increases in algal-cell size with herbivory were driven by a greater proportion of filamentous green algae and nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria, whose size and morphological characteristics mechanically minimize consumption. While consumer-driven shifts in algal assemblage structure were significant, they did not prevent top-down regulation of biofilm development by herbivores. Our findings show that increasing wet periods in northern peatlands will provide new avenues for trophic regulation of algal production, including directly through consumption and indirectly via a trophic cascade.
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- Allison R Rober
- Department of Biology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 47306, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, NIG 2WI, Canada
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- Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA
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- Department of Biology, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, 47306, USA
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Kaal J, Pérez-Rodríguez M, Biester H. Molecular Probing of DOM Indicates a Key Role of Spruce-Derived Lignin in the DOM and Metal Cycles of a Headwater Catchment: Can Spruce Forest Dieback Exacerbate Future Trends in the Browning of Central European Surface Waters? Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:2747-2759. [PMID: 35104105 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Peatlands of the Northern Hemisphere and Central European coniferous forests experience significant environmental change. The resultant browning of surface waters, that is, elevated concentrations of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and metals, is of interest in the context of the global C cycle, peatland and forest management, and water treatment. In an attempt to identify the causes of this process in the Harz Mountains (Central Germany), we studied the spatiotemporal variations in DOM molecular composition (thermally assisted hydrolysis and methylation combined with GC-MS) and metal concentrations in headwater stream samples. We found strong relationships between DOM and metals and seasonal variations in the DOM quality and tentatively DOM-metal binding mode: during summer base flow, DOM and metal concentrations are low, and all elements other than the alkali and alkaline earth metals (Ca, Mg, Sr, K, and Na) are positively correlated to DOM, whereas during spring and autumn (high discharge), only metals with strong affinity for DOM (Fe, As, Cu, Cr, Pb, and Ti), but not weakly binding ones (Al, Cd, La, Mn, Ni, Zn, and Zr), are correlated to DOM, indicative of selectivity in DOM-metal interactions. The products of polyphenols are the key ingredients of the DOM-metal complexes. We argue the importance of spruce lignin-derived vanillic acid moieties, which are involved in weak (all seasons) and strong, multidentate and/or colloidal, binding (spring and autumn) of metals. Considering the ongoing spruce forest dieback and climate change acceleration, it is tempting to conclude that spruce necromass and forest soils may release vast amounts of lignin-derived DOM and associated metals to headwater streams. This would have significant implications for forest soil C stocks and the management of connected drinking water reservoirs.
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- Joeri Kaal
- Institut für Geoökologie, Abteilung Umweltgeochemie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19C, Braunschweig 38106, Germany
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- Institut für Geoökologie, Abteilung Umweltgeochemie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19C, Braunschweig 38106, Germany
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- Institut für Geoökologie, Abteilung Umweltgeochemie, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19C, Braunschweig 38106, Germany
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Pierce CE, Furman OS, Nicholas SL, Wasik JC, Gionfriddo CM, Wymore AM, Sebestyen SD, Kolka RK, Mitchell CPJ, Griffiths NA, Elias DA, Nater EA, Toner BM. Role of Ester Sulfate and Organic Disulfide in Mercury Methylation in Peatland Soils. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:1433-1444. [PMID: 34979084 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c04662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We examined the composition and spatial correlation of sulfur and mercury pools in peatland soil profiles by measuring sulfur speciation by 1s X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectrocopy and mercury concentrations by cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectroscopy. Also investigated were the methylation/demethylation rate constants and the presence of hgcAB genes with depth. Methylmercury (MeHg) concentration and organic disulfide were spatially correlated and had a significant positive correlation (p < 0.05). This finding is consistent with these species being products of dissimilatory sulfate reduction. Conversely, a significant negative correlation between organic monosulfides and MeHg was observed, which is consistent with a reduction in Hg(II) bioavailability via complexation reactions. Finally, a significant positive correlation between ester sulfate and instantaneous methylation rate constants was observed, which is consistent with ester sulfate being a substrate for mercury methylation via dissimilatory sulfate reduction. Our findings point to the importance of organic sulfur species in mercury methylation processes, as substrates and products, as well as potential inhibitors of Hg(II) bioavailability. For a peatland system with sub-μmol L-1 porewater concentrations of sulfate and hydrogen sulfide, our findings indicate that the solid-phase sulfur pools, which have a much larger sulfur concentration range, may be accessible to microbial activity or exchanging with the porewater.
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- Caroline E Pierce
- Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Plant and Earth Science Department, University of Wisconsin River Falls, River Falls, Wisconsin 54022, United States
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, Minnesota 55744, United States
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- USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, Minnesota 55744, United States
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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- Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, United States
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Younes K, Moghrabi A, Moghnie S, Mouhtady O, Murshid N, Grasset L. Assessment of the Efficiency of Chemical and Thermochemical Depolymerization Methods for Lignin Valorization: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Approach. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:194. [PMID: 35012215 PMCID: PMC8747416 DOI: 10.3390/polym14010194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Revised: 12/25/2021] [Accepted: 12/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Energy demand and the use of commodity consumer products, such as chemicals, plastics, and transportation fuels, are growing nowadays. These products, which are mainly derived from fossil resources and contribute to environmental pollution and CO2 emissions, will be used up eventually. Therefore, a renewable inexhaustible energy source is required. Plant biomass resources can be used as a suitable alternative source due to their green, clean attributes and low carbon emissions. Lignin is a class of complex aromatic polymers. It is highly abundant and a major constituent in the structural cell walls of all higher vascular land plants. Lignin can be used as an alternative source for fine chemicals and raw material for biofuel production. There are many chemical processes that can be potentially utilized to increase the degradation rate of lignin into biofuels or value-added chemicals. In this study, two lignin degradation methods, CuO-NaOH oxidation and tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide (TMAH) thermochemolysis, will be addressed. Both methods showed a high capacity to produce a large molecular dataset, resulting in tedious and time-consuming data analysis. To overcome this issue, an unsupervised machine learning technique called principal component analysis (PCA) is implemented.
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- Khaled Younes
- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait; (A.M.); (S.M.); (O.M.); (N.M.)
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait; (A.M.); (S.M.); (O.M.); (N.M.)
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait; (A.M.); (S.M.); (O.M.); (N.M.)
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait; (A.M.); (S.M.); (O.M.); (N.M.)
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- College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait; (A.M.); (S.M.); (O.M.); (N.M.)
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- Université de Poitiers, IC2MP, UMR CNRS 7285, 4 rue Michel Brunet, TSA 51106, CEDEX 9, 86073 Poitiers, France;
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Watanabe A, Katoh M, McMaster M, Anderson HA. Characterisation of Dissolved Organic Matter Fractions Released from Scottish Peatlands. ANAL SCI 2021; 37:1719-1725. [PMID: 34148921 DOI: 10.2116/analsci.20p450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A high concentration of dissolved organic matter is intimately related to the chemistry and ecology of water environments linked to peatlands. To understand the variations in the chemical characteristics of peat derived dissolved organic matter, those in drainage water from natural vegetation and an area containing Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), surface water (dubh lochans), and stream water associated with a peatland in central Scotland were analyzed after fractionation into two fulvic acids that were desorbed from an XAD-8 column with water (FAs(H2O)) and 0.1 M NaOH (FAs(NaOH)), humic acids, and dissolved non-humic substances. The elemental composition and the carbon composition as estimated by 13C cross polarisation/magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance did not differ significantly between the FAs(H2O) and FAs(NaOH), whilst the FAs(H2O) were differentiated from the FAs(NaOH) by the greater proportion of carboxy groups with a low pKa at approximately 2. The carboxy group content and the distribution of carboxy groups with respect to the pKa of dissolved non-humic substances were similar to those of FAs(H2O), suggesting their importance as a metal carrier in water systems associated with peatland.
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- Akira Watanabe
- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
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- Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University
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- The Macaulay Institute (Present: the James Hutton Institute)
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Roth S, Poulin BA, Baumann Z, Liu X, Zhang L, Krabbenhoft DP, Hines ME, Schaefer JK, Barkay T. Nutrient Inputs Stimulate Mercury Methylation by Syntrophs in a Subarctic Peatland. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:741523. [PMID: 34675906 PMCID: PMC8524442 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.741523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Climate change dramatically impacts Arctic and subarctic regions, inducing shifts in wetland nutrient regimes as a consequence of thawing permafrost. Altered hydrological regimes may drive changes in the dynamics of microbial mercury (Hg) methylation and bioavailability. Important knowledge gaps remain on the contribution of specific microbial groups to methylmercury (MeHg) production in wetlands of various trophic status. Here, we measured aqueous chemistry, potential methylation rates (kmeth), volatile fatty acid (VFA) dynamics in peat-soil incubations, and genetic potential for Hg methylation across a groundwater-driven nutrient gradient in an interior Alaskan fen. We tested the hypotheses that (1) nutrient inputs will result in increased methylation potentials, and (2) syntrophic interactions contribute to methylation in subarctic wetlands. We observed that concentrations of nutrients, total Hg, and MeHg, abundance of hgcA genes, and rates of methylation in peat incubations (kmeth) were highest near the groundwater input and declined downgradient. hgcA sequences near the input were closely related to those from sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), methanogens, and syntrophs. Hg methylation in peat incubations collected near the input source (FPF2) were impacted by the addition of sulfate and some metabolic inhibitors while those down-gradient (FPF5) were not. Sulfate amendment to FPF2 incubations had higher kmeth relative to unamended controls despite no effect on kmeth from addition of the sulfate reduction inhibitor molybdate. The addition of the methanogenic inhibitor BES (25 mM) led to the accumulation of VFAs, but unlike molybdate, it did not affect Hg methylation rates. Rather, the concurrent additions of BES and molybdate significantly decreased kmeth, suggesting a role for interactions between SRB and methanogens in Hg methylation. The reduction in kmeth with combined addition of BES and molybdate, and accumulation of VFA in peat incubations containing BES, and a high abundance of syntroph-related hgcA sequences in peat metagenomes provide evidence for MeHg production by microorganisms growing in syntrophy. Collectively the results suggest that wetland nutrient regimes influence the activity of Hg methylating microorganisms and, consequently, Hg methylation rates. Our results provide key information about microbial Hg methylation and methylating communities under nutrient conditions that are expected to become more common as permafrost soils thaw.
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- Spencer Roth
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States.,Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, United States.,Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
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- United States Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Water Science Center, Mercury Research Laboratory, Middleton, WI, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA, United States
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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Heffernan L, Jassey VEJ, Frederickson M, MacKenzie MD, Olefeldt D. Constraints on potential enzyme activities in thermokarst bogs: Implications for the carbon balance of peatlands following thaw. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:4711-4726. [PMID: 34164885 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Northern peatlands store a globally significant amount of soil organic carbon, much of it found in rapidly thawing permafrost. Permafrost thaw in peatlands often leads to the development and expansion of thermokarst bogs, where microbial activity will determine the stability of the carbon storage and the release of greenhouse gases. In this study, we compared potential enzyme activities between young (thawed ~30 years ago) and mature (~200 years) thermokarst bogs, for both shallow and deep peat layers. We found very low potential enzyme activities in deep peat layers, with no differences between the young and mature bogs. Peat quality at depth was found to be highly humified (FTIR analysis) in both the young and mature bogs. This suggests that deep, old peat was largely stable following permafrost thaw, without a rapid pulse of decomposition during the young bog stage. For near-surface peat, we found significantly higher potential enzyme activities in the young bog than in the mature-associated with differences in peat quality derived from different Sphagnum species. A laboratory incubation of near-surface peat showed that differences in potential enzyme activity were primarily influenced by peat type rather than oxygen availability. This suggested that the young bog can have higher rates of near-surface decomposition despite being substantially wetter than the mature bog. Overall, our study shows that peat properties are the dominant constraint on potential enzyme activity and that peatland site development (successional pathways and permafrost history) through its influence on peat type and chemistry is likely to determine peat decomposition following permafrost thaw.
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- Liam Heffernan
- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Laboratorie d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Envrionnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Ziegelhöfer A, Kujala K. Assessing the Diversity and Metabolic Potential of Psychrotolerant Arsenic-Metabolizing Microorganisms From a Subarctic Peatland Used for Treatment of Mining-Affected Waters by Culture-Dependent and -Independent Techniques. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:648412. [PMID: 34295311 PMCID: PMC8290898 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.648412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Arsenic contamination in water by natural causes or industrial activities is a major environmental concern, and treatment of contaminated waters is needed to protect water resources and minimize the risk for human health. In mining environments, treatment peatlands are used in the polishing phase of water treatment to remove arsenic (among other contaminants), and peat microorganisms play a crucial role in arsenic removal. The present study assessed culture-independent diversity obtained through metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing and culture-dependent diversity obtained by isolating psychrotolerant arsenic-tolerant, arsenite-oxidizing, and arsenate-respiring microorganisms from a peatland treating mine effluent waters of a gold mine in Finnish Lapland using a dilution-to-extinction technique. Low diversity enrichments obtained after several transfers were dominated by the genera Pseudomonas, Polaromonas, Aeromonas, Brevundimonas, Ancylobacter, and Rhodoferax. Even though maximal growth and physiological activity (i.e., arsenite oxidation or arsenate reduction) were observed at temperatures between 20 and 28°C, most enrichments also showed substantial growth/activity at 2–5°C, indicating the successful enrichments of psychrotolerant microorganisms. After additional purification, eight arsenic-tolerant, five arsenite-oxidizing, and three arsenate-respiring strains were obtained in pure culture and identified as Pseudomonas, Rhodococcus, Microbacterium, and Cadophora. Some of the enriched and isolated genera are not known to metabolize arsenic, and valuable insights on arsenic turnover pathways may be gained by their further characterization. Comparison with phylogenetic and functional data from the metagenome indicated that the enriched and isolated strains did not belong to the most abundant genera, indicating that culture-dependent and -independent methods capture different fractions of the microbial community involved in arsenic turnover. Rare biosphere microorganisms that are present in low abundance often play an important role in ecosystem functioning, and the enriched/isolated strains might thus contribute substantially to arsenic turnover in the treatment peatland. Psychrotolerant pure cultures of arsenic-metabolizing microorganisms from peatlands are needed to close the knowledge gaps pertaining to microbial arsenic turnover in peatlands located in cold climate regions, and the isolates and enrichments obtained in this study are a good starting point to establish model systems. Improved understanding of their metabolism could moreover lead to their use in biotechnological applications intended for bioremediation of arsenic-contaminated waters.
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- Aileen Ziegelhöfer
- Faculty for Chemistry & Biotechnology, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Jülich, Germany.,Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Water, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Gogo S, Leroy F, Zocatelli R, Jacotot A, Laggoun‐Défarge F. Determinism of nonadditive litter mixture effect on decomposition: Role of the moisture content of litters. Ecol Evol 2021; 11:9530-9542. [PMID: 34306640 PMCID: PMC8293766 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The mechanisms behind the plant litter mixture effect on decomposition are still difficult to disentangle. To tackle this issue, we used a model that specifically addresses the role of the litter moisture content. Our model predicts that when two litters interact in terms of water flow, the difference of evaporation rate between two litters can trigger a nonadditive mixture effect on decomposition. Water flows from the wettest to the driest litter, changing the reaction rates without changing the overall litter water content. The reaction rate of the litter receiving the water increases relatively more than the decrease in the reaction rate of the litter supplying the water, leading to a synergistic effect. Such water flow can keep the microbial biomass of both litter in a water content domain suitable to maintain decomposition activity. When applied to experimental data (Sphagnum rubellum and Molinia caerulea litters), the model is able to assess whether any nonadditive effect originates from water content variation alone or whether other factors have to be taken into account.
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- Univ. Orléans, CNRS, BRGM, ISTO, UMR 7327OrléansFrance
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Wilson RM, Tfaily MM, Kolton M, Johnston ER, Petro C, Zalman CA, Hanson PJ, Heyman HM, Kyle JE, Hoyt DW, Eder EK, Purvine SO, Kolka RK, Sebestyen SD, Griffiths NA, Schadt CW, Keller JK, Bridgham SD, Chanton JP, Kostka JE. Soil metabolome response to whole-ecosystem warming at the Spruce and Peatland Responses under Changing Environments experiment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2004192118. [PMID: 34161254 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2004192118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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In this study, a suite of complementary environmental geochemical analyses, including NMR and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analyses of central metabolites, Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICR-MS) of secondary metabolites, and lipidomics, was used to investigate the influence of organic matter (OM) quality on the heterotrophic microbial mechanisms controlling peatland CO2, CH4, and CO2:CH4 porewater production ratios in response to climate warming. Our investigations leverage the Spruce and Peatland Responses under Changing Environments (SPRUCE) experiment, where air and peat warming were combined in a whole-ecosystem warming treatment. We hypothesized that warming would enhance the production of plant-derived metabolites, resulting in increased labile OM inputs to the surface peat, thereby enhancing microbial activity and greenhouse gas production. Because shallow peat is most susceptible to enhanced warming, increases in labile OM inputs to the surface, in particular, are likely to result in significant changes to CO2 and CH4 dynamics and methanogenic pathways. In support of this hypothesis, significant correlations were observed between metabolites and temperature consistent with increased availability of labile substrates, which may stimulate more rapid turnover of microbial proteins. An increase in the abundance of methanogenic genes in response to the increase in the abundance of labile substrates was accompanied by a shift toward acetoclastic and methylotrophic methanogenesis. Our results suggest that as peatland vegetation trends toward increasing vascular plant cover with warming, we can expect a concomitant shift toward increasingly methanogenic conditions and amplified climate-peatland feedbacks.
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Dearborn KD, Baltzer JL. Unexpected greening in a boreal permafrost peatland undergoing forest loss is partially attributable to tree species turnover. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:2867-2882. [PMID: 33742732 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 03/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Time series of vegetation indices derived from satellite imagery are useful in measuring vegetation response to climate warming in remote northern regions. These indices show that productivity is generally declining in the boreal forest, but it is unclear which components of boreal vegetation are driving these trends. We aimed to compare trends in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to forest growth and demographic data taken from a 10 ha mapped plot located in a spruce-dominated boreal peatland. We used microcores to quantify recent growth trends and tree census data to characterize mortality and recruitment rates of the three dominant tree species. We then compared spatial patterns in growth and demography to patterns in Landsat-derived maximum NDVI trends (1984-2019) in 78 pixels that fell within the plot. We found that NDVI trends were predominantly positive (i.e., "greening") in spite of the ongoing loss of black spruce (the dominant species; 80% of stems) from the plot. The magnitude of these trends correlated positively with black spruce growth trends, but was also governed to a large extent by tree mortality and recruitment. Greening trends were weaker (lower slope) in areas with high larch mortality, and high turnover of spruce and birch, but stronger (higher slope) in areas with high larch recruitment. Larch dominance is currently low (~11% of stems), but it is increasing in abundance as permafrost thaw progresses and will likely have a substantial influence on future NDVI trends. Our results emphasize that NDVI trends in boreal peatlands can be positive even when the forest as a whole is in decline, and that the magnitude of trends can be strongly influenced by the demographics of uncommon species.
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Rupp DL, Lamit LJ, Techtmann SM, Kane ES, Lilleskov EA, Turetsky MR. The Rhizosphere Responds: Rich Fen Peat and Root Microbial Ecology after Long-Term Water Table Manipulation. Appl Environ Microbiol 2021; 87:e0024121. [PMID: 33811029 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00241-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Hydrologic shifts due to climate change will affect the cycling of carbon (C) stored in boreal peatlands. Carbon cycling in these systems is carried out by microorganisms and plants in close association. This study investigated the effects of experimentally manipulated water tables (lowered and raised) and plant functional groups on the peat and root microbiomes in a boreal rich fen. All samples were sequenced and processed for bacterial, archaeal (16S DNA genes; V4), and fungal (internal transcribed spacer 2 [ITS2]) DNA. Depth had a strong effect on microbial and fungal communities across all water table treatments. Bacterial and archaeal communities were most sensitive to the water table treatments, particularly at the 10- to 20-cm depth; this area coincides with the rhizosphere or rooting zone. Iron cyclers, particularly members of the family Geobacteraceae, were enriched around the roots of sedges, horsetails, and grasses. The fungal community was affected largely by plant functional group, especially cinquefoils. Fungal endophytes (particularly Acephala spp.) were enriched in sedge and grass roots, which may have underappreciated implications for organic matter breakdown and cycling. Fungal lignocellulose degraders were enriched in the lowered water table treatment. Our results were indicative of two main methanogen communities, a rooting zone community dominated by the archaeal family Methanobacteriaceae and a deep peat community dominated by the family Methanomicrobiaceae. IMPORTANCE This study demonstrated that roots and the rooting zone in boreal fens support organisms likely capable of methanogenesis, iron cycling, and fungal endophytic association and are directly or indirectly affecting carbon cycling in these ecosystems. These taxa, which react to changes in the water table and associate with roots and, particularly, graminoids, may gain greater biogeochemical influence, as projected higher precipitation rates could lead to an increased abundance of sedges and grasses in boreal fens.
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Chen YD, Moles A, Bu ZJ, Zhang MM, Wang ZC, Zhao HY. Induced defense and its cost in two bryophyte species. Am J Bot 2021; 108:777-787. [PMID: 33948954 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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PREMISE Current knowledge about defense strategies in plants under herbivore pressure is predominantly based on vascular plants. Bryophytes are rarely consumed by herbivores since they have ample secondary metabolites. However, it is unknown whether bryophytes have induced defenses against herbivory and whether there is a trade-off between growth and defense in bryophytes. METHODS In an experiment with two peatland bryophytes, Sphagnum magellanicum Brid. and S. fuscum (Schimp.) H. Klinggr., two kinds of herbivory, clipping with scissors and grazing by mealworms (Tenebrio molitor L.) were simulated. At the end of the experiment, we measured growth traits, carbon-based defense compounds (total phenolics and cellulose) and storage compounds (total nonstructural carbohydrates) of these two Sphagnum species. RESULTS Grazing but not clipping increased total phenolics and C:N ratio and reduced biomass production and height increment. A negative relationship between biomass production and total phenolics was found in S. magellanicum but not in S. fuscum, indicating a growth-defense trade-off that is species-specific. Grazing reduced the sugar starch content of S. magellanicum and the sugar of S. fuscum. Either clipping or grazing had no effect on chlorophyll fluorescence (including actual and maximum photochemical efficiency of photosystem II) except that a significant effect of clipping on actual photochemical efficiency in S. fuscum was observed. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that Sphagnum can have induced defense against herbivory and that this defense can come at a cost of growth. These findings advance our knowledge about induced defense in bryophytes, the earliest land plants.
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- Yong-Da Chen
- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Kensington, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
- Jilin Provincial Key Laboratory for Wetland Ecological Processes and Environmental Change in the Changbai Mountains, Renmin 5268, Changchun, 130024, China
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Prelle LR, Albrecht M, Karsten U, Damer P, Giese T, Jähns J, Müller S, Schulz L, Viertel L, Glaser K. Ecophysiological and Cell Biological Traits of Benthic Diatoms From Coastal Wetlands of the Southern Baltic Sea. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:642811. [PMID: 33912148 PMCID: PMC8072133 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.642811] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The German Baltic Sea coastline is characterized by sea-land transitions zones, specifically coastal peatlands. Such transition zones exhibit highly fluctuating environmental parameters and dynamic gradients that affect physiological processes of inhabiting organisms such as microphytobenthic communities. In the present study four representative and abundant benthic diatom strains [Melosira nummuloides, Nitzschia filiformis, Planothidium sp. (st. 1) and Planothidium sp. (st.2)] were isolated from a Baltic Sea beach and three peatlands that are irregularly affected by Baltic Sea water intrusion. Ecophysiological and cell biological traits of the strains were investigated for the first time as function of light, temperature and salinity. The four strains exhibited euryhaline growth over a range of 1–39 SA, surpassing in situ salinity of the respective brackish habitats. Furthermore, they showed eurythermal growth over a temperature range from 5 to 30°C with an optimum temperature between 15 and 20°C. Growth rates did not exhibit any differences between the peatland and Baltic Sea strains. The photosynthetic temperature optimum of the peatland diatom isolates, however, was much higher (20–35°C) compared to the Baltic Sea one (10°C). All strains exhibited light saturation points ranging between 29.8 and 72.6 μmol photons m–2 s–1. The lipid content did not change in response to the tested abiotic factors. All data point to wide physiological tolerances in these benthic diatoms along the respective sea-land transitions zones. This study could serve as a baseline for future studies on microphytobenthic communities and their key functions, like primary production, under fluctuating environmental stressors along terrestrial-marine gradients.
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- Lara R Prelle
- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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Hömberg A, Knorr KH, Schaller J. Methane Production Rate during Anoxic Litter Decomposition Depends on Si Mass Fractions, Nutrient Stoichiometry, and Carbon Quality. Plants (Basel) 2021; 10:plants10040618. [PMID: 33805021 PMCID: PMC8063934 DOI: 10.3390/plants10040618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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While Si influences nutrient stoichiometry and decomposition of graminoid litter, it is still unclear how Si influences anoxic litter decomposition and CH4 formation in graminoid dominated fen peatlands. First, Eriophorum vaginatum plants were grown under different Si and P availabilities, then shoots and roots were characterized regarding their proportions of C, Si, N and P and regarding C quality. Subsequently the Eriophorum shoots were subjected to anoxic decomposition. We hypothesized; that (I) litter grown under high Si availability would show a higher Si but lower nutrient mass fractions and a lower share of recalcitrant carbon moieties; (II) high-Si litter would show higher CH4 and CO2 production rates during anoxic decomposition; (III) methanogenesis would occur earlier in less recalcitrant high-Si litter, compared to low-Si litter. We found a higher Si mass fraction that coincides with a general decrease in C and N mass fractions and decreased share of recalcitrant organic moieties. For high-Si litter, the CH4 production rate was higher, but there was no long-term influence on the CO2 production rate. More labile high-Si litter and a differential response in nutrient stoichiometry led to faster onset of methanogenesis. This may have important implications for our understanding of anaerobic carbon turnover in graminoid-rich fens.
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- Annkathrin Hömberg
- Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry Group, University of Münster, Heisenbergstraße 2, 48149 Münster, Germany;
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- Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry Group, University of Münster, Heisenbergstraße 2, 48149 Münster, Germany;
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- Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), 15374 Müncheberg, Germany;
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Köhn D, Günther A, Schwabe I, Jurasinski G. Short-lived peaks of stem methane emissions from mature black alder ( Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.) - Irrelevant for ecosystem methane budgets? Plant Environ Interact 2021; 2:16-27. [PMID: 37283846 PMCID: PMC10168070 DOI: 10.1002/pei3.10037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2020] [Revised: 11/19/2020] [Accepted: 12/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Tree stems can be a source of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4). However, assessments of the global importance of stem CH4 emissions are complicated by a lack of research and high variability between individual ecosystems. Here, we determined the contribution of emissions from stems of mature black alder (Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.) to overall CH4 exchange in two temperate peatlands. We measured emissions from stems and soils using closed chambers in a drained and an undrained alder forest over 2 years. Furthermore, we studied the importance of alder leaves as substrate for methanogenesis in an incubation experiment. Stem CH4 emissions were short-lived and occurred only during times of inundation at the undrained site. The drained site did not show stem emissions and the soil acted as a small CH4 sink. The contribution of stem emissions to the overall CH4 budget was below 0.3% in both sites. Our results show that mature black alder can be an intermittent source of CH4 to the atmosphere. However, the low share of stem CH4 emissions in both investigated stands indicates that this pathway may be of minor relative importance in temperate peatlands, yet strongly depend on the hydrologic regime.
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- Daniel Köhn
- Landscape EcologyUniversity of RostockRostockGermany
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- Landscape EcologyUniversity of RostockRostockGermany
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- Landscape EcologyUniversity of RostockRostockGermany
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Hergoualc’h K, Dezzeo N, Verchot LV, Martius C, van Lent J, del Aguila‐Pasquel J, López Gonzales M. Spatial and temporal variability of soil N 2 O and CH 4 fluxes along a degradation gradient in a palm swamp peat forest in the Peruvian Amazon. Glob Chang Biol 2020; 26:7198-7216. [PMID: 32949077 PMCID: PMC7756671 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Mauritia flexuosa palm swamp, the prevailing Peruvian Amazon peatland ecosystem, is extensively threatened by degradation. The unsustainable practice of cutting whole palms for fruit extraction modifies forest's structure and composition and eventually alters peat-derived greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We evaluated the spatiotemporal variability of soil N2 O and CH4 fluxes and environmental controls along a palm swamp degradation gradient formed by one undegraded site (Intact), one moderately degraded site (mDeg) and one heavily degraded site (hDeg). Microscale variability differentiated hummocks supporting live or cut palms from surrounding hollows. Macroscale analysis considered structural changes in vegetation and soil microtopography as impacted by degradation. Variables were monitored monthly over 3 years to evaluate intra- and inter-annual variability. Degradation induced microscale changes in N2 O and CH4 emission trends and controls. Site-scale average annual CH4 emissions were similar along the degradation gradient (225.6 ± 50.7, 160.5 ± 65.9 and 169.4 ± 20.7 kg C ha-1 year-1 at the Intact, mDeg and hDeg sites, respectively). Site-scale average annual N2 O emissions (kg N ha-1 year-1 ) were lower at the mDeg site (0.5 ± 0.1) than at the Intact (1.3 ± 0.6) and hDeg sites (1.1 ± 0.4), but the difference seemed linked to heterogeneous fluctuations in soil water-filled pore space (WFPS) along the forest complex rather than to degradation. Monthly and annual emissions were mainly controlled by variations in WFPS, water table level (WT) and net nitrification for N2 O; WT, air temperature and net nitrification for CH4 . Site-scale N2 O emissions remained steady over years, whereas CH4 emissions rose exponentially with increased precipitation. While the minor impact of degradation on palm swamp peatland N2 O and CH4 fluxes should be tested elsewhere, the evidenced large and variable CH4 emissions and significant N2 O emissions call for improved modeling of GHG dynamics in tropical peatlands to test their response to climate changes.
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- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)LimaPeru
- Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC)CaracasVenezuela
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- Center for International Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)CaliColombia
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- Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)LimaPeru
- Department for Soil QualityWageningen University & ResearchWageningenThe Netherlands
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Lovegrove AT, Newton AC, Evans PM, Diaz A, Newton AC, Davy L, Newbould PJ. Changes in vegetation structure and composition of a lowland mire over a sixty-five-year interval. Ecol Evol 2020; 10:13913-13925. [PMID: 33391690 PMCID: PMC7771134 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 09/29/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Mires are characterized by plant communities of high conservation and societal value, which have experienced a major decline in area in many parts of the world, particularly Europe. Evidence suggests that they may be particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and nutrient addition. Although they have been the focus of extensive paleoecological research, few attempts have been made to examine the dynamics of mire vegetation during the current era of anthropogenic environmental change.To assess long-term change in the spatial structure and composition of a lowland mire community, in 2016 we resurveyed plots first surveyed in 1951. Measures of species richness and composition were compared between the two surveys, and changes in community composition were related to plant traits.Overall, mean species richness declined by 26%. The area of occupancy declined in 37% of species, which were primarily oligotrophic species typical of nutrient-poor bog communities. Conversely, occupancy increased in 21% of species, especially those that were more tolerant of higher nutrient availability. These changes were associated with variation in plant functional traits, as indicated by an increase mean Ellenberg trait values for nitrogen and mean temperature, and a decline in values for precipitation. These results suggest that eutrophication and climate change have been key drivers of floristic change on this site. Synthesis. This investigation provides a rare assessment of the dynamics of a mire community over a multi-decadal interval. Results indicate that substantial change has occurred in the composition of the community, and the distribution of species within it. The investigation provides evidence of the impact of environmental change on the composition and structure of a lowland mire community, and highlights challenges for its future conservation.
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- Alexander T. Lovegrove
- Centre for Ecology, Environment and SustainabilityFaculty of Science and EngineeringBournemouth UniversityPooleUK
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- Centre for Ecology, Environment and SustainabilityFaculty of Science and EngineeringBournemouth UniversityPooleUK
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- Centre for Ecology, Environment and SustainabilityFaculty of Science and EngineeringBournemouth UniversityPooleUK
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- Centre for Ecology, Environment and SustainabilityFaculty of Science and EngineeringBournemouth UniversityPooleUK
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- College of Life and Environmental SciencesUniversity of ExeterPenrynUK
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Taillardat P, Thompson BS, Garneau M, Trottier K, Friess DA. Climate change mitigation potential of wetlands and the cost-effectiveness of their restoration. Interface Focus 2020; 10:20190129. [PMID: 32832065 DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2019.0129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The cost-effective mitigation of climate change through nature-based carbon dioxide removal strategies has gained substantial policy attention. Inland and coastal wetlands (specifically boreal, temperate and tropical peatlands; tundra; floodplains; freshwater marshes; saltmarshes; and mangroves) are among the most efficient natural long-term carbon sinks. Yet, they also release methane (CH4) that can offset the carbon they sequester. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis on wetland carbon dynamics to (i) determine their impact on climate using different metrics and time horizons, (ii) investigate the cost-effectiveness of wetland restoration for climate change mitigation, and (iii) discuss their suitability for inclusion in climate policy as negative emission technologies. Depending on metrics, a wetland can simultaneously be a net carbon sink (i.e. boreal and temperate peatlands net ecosystem carbon budget = -28.1 ± 19.13 gC m-2 y-1) but have a net warming effect on climate at the 100 years time-scale (i.e. boreal and temperate peatland sustained global warming potential = 298.2 ± 100.6 gCO2 eq-1 m-2 y-1). This situation creates ambivalence regarding the effect of wetlands on global temperature. Moreover, our review reveals high heterogeneity among the (limited number of) studies that document wetland carbon budgets. We demonstrate that most coastal and inland wetlands have a net cooling effect as of today. This is explained by the limited CH4 emissions that undisturbed coastal wetlands produce, and the long-term carbon sequestration performed by older inland wetlands as opposed to the short lifetime of CH4 in the atmosphere. Analysis of wetland restoration costs relative to the amount of carbon they can sequester revealed that restoration is more cost-effective in coastal wetlands such as mangroves (US$1800 ton C-1) compared with inland wetlands (US$4200-49 200 ton C-1). We advise that for inland wetlands, priority should be given to conservation rather than restoration; while for coastal wetlands, both conservation and restoration may be effective techniques for climate change mitigation.
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- Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.,School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Malhotra A, Brice DJ, Childs J, Graham JD, Hobbie EA, Vander Stel H, Feron SC, Hanson PJ, Iversen CM. Peatland warming strongly increases fine-root growth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:17627-17634. [PMID: 32661144 PMCID: PMC7395547 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2003361117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Belowground climate change responses remain a key unknown in the Earth system. Plant fine-root response is especially important to understand because fine roots respond quickly to environmental change, are responsible for nutrient and water uptake, and influence carbon cycling. However, fine-root responses to climate change are poorly constrained, especially in northern peatlands, which contain up to two-thirds of the world's soil carbon. We present fine-root responses to warming between +2 °C and 9 °C above ambient conditions in a whole-ecosystem peatland experiment. Warming strongly increased fine-root growth by over an order of magnitude in the warmest treatment, with stronger responses in shrubs than in trees or graminoids. In the first year of treatment, the control (+0 °C) shrub fine-root growth of 0.9 km m-2 y-1 increased linearly by 1.2 km m-2 y-1 (130%) for every degree increase in soil temperature. An extended belowground growing season accounted for 20% of this dramatic increase. In the second growing season of treatment, the shrub warming response rate increased to 2.54 km m-2 °C-1 Soil moisture was negatively correlated with fine-root growth, highlighting that drying of these typically water-saturated ecosystems can fuel a surprising burst in shrub belowground productivity, one possible mechanism explaining the "shrubification" of northern peatlands in response to global change. This previously unrecognized mechanism sheds light on how peatland fine-root response to warming and drying could be strong and rapid, with consequences for the belowground growing season duration, microtopography, vegetation composition, and ultimately, carbon function of these globally relevant carbon sinks.
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- Avni Malhotra
- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830;
- Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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- Department of Geosciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725
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- Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060
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- Department of Physics, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, 9170022, Chile
- School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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- Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
- Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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Chaudhary N, Westermann S, Lamba S, Shurpali N, Sannel ABK, Schurgers G, Miller PA, Smith B. Modelling past and future peatland carbon dynamics across the pan-Arctic. Glob Chang Biol 2020; 26:4119-4133. [PMID: 32239563 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2019] [Revised: 03/19/2020] [Accepted: 03/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The majority of northern peatlands were initiated during the Holocene. Owing to their mass imbalance, they have sequestered huge amounts of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. Although recent syntheses have filled some knowledge gaps, the extent and remoteness of many peatlands pose challenges to developing reliable regional carbon accumulation estimates from observations. In this work, we employed an individual- and patch-based dynamic global vegetation model (LPJ-GUESS) with peatland and permafrost functionality to quantify long-term carbon accumulation rates in northern peatlands and to assess the effects of historical and projected future climate change on peatland carbon balance. We combined published datasets of peat basal age to form an up-to-date peat inception surface for the pan-Arctic region which we then used to constrain the model. We divided our analysis into two parts, with a focus both on the carbon accumulation changes detected within the observed peatland boundary and at pan-Arctic scale under two contrasting warming scenarios (representative concentration pathway-RCP8.5 and RCP2.6). We found that peatlands continue to act as carbon sinks under both warming scenarios, but their sink capacity will be substantially reduced under the high-warming (RCP8.5) scenario after 2050. Areas where peat production was initially hampered by permafrost and low productivity were found to accumulate more carbon because of the initial warming and moisture-rich environment due to permafrost thaw, higher precipitation and elevated CO2 levels. On the other hand, we project that areas which will experience reduced precipitation rates and those without permafrost will lose more carbon in the near future, particularly peatlands located in the European region and between 45 and 55°N latitude. Overall, we found that rapid global warming could reduce the carbon sink capacity of the northern peatlands in the coming decades.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Chroňáková A, Bárta J, Kaštovská E, Urbanová Z, Picek T. Spatial heterogeneity of belowground microbial communities linked to peatland microhabitats with different plant dominants. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 95:5551480. [PMID: 31425589 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Peatland vegetation is composed mostly of mosses, graminoids and ericoid shrubs, and these have a distinct impact on peat biogeochemistry. We studied variation in soil microbial communities related to natural peatland microhabitats dominated by Sphagnum, cotton-grass and blueberry. We hypothesized that such microhabitats will be occupied by structurally and functionally different microbial communities, which will vary further during the vegetation season due to changes in temperature and photosynthetic activity of plant dominants. This was addressed using amplicon-based sequencing of prokaryotic and fungal rDNA and qPCR with respect to methane-cycling communities. Fungal communities were highly microhabitat-specific, while prokaryotic communities were additionally directed by soil pH and total N content. Seasonal alternations in microbial community composition were less important; however, they influenced the abundance of methane-cycling communities. Cotton-grass and blueberry bacterial communities contained relatively more α-Proteobacteria but less Chloroflexi, Fibrobacteres, Firmicutes, NC10, OD1 and Spirochaetes than in Sphagnum. Methanogens, syntrophic and anaerobic bacteria (i.e. Clostridiales, Bacteroidales, Opitutae, Chloroflexi and Syntrophorhabdaceae) were suppressed in blueberry indicating greater aeration that enhanced abundance of fungi (mainly Archaeorhizomycetes) and resulted in the highest fungi-to-bacteria ratio. Thus, microhabitats dominated by different vascular plants are inhabited by unique microbial communities, contributing greatly to spatial functional diversity within peatlands.
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- Alica Chroňáková
- Biology Centre, CAS, Institute of Soil Biology and SoWa RI, Na Sádkách 7, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 1760, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 1760, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 1760, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic
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- Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Branišovská 1760, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic
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Straková P, Larmola T, Andrés J, Ilola N, Launiainen P, Edwards K, Minkkinen K, Laiho R. Quantification of Plant Root Species Composition in Peatlands Using FTIR Spectroscopy. Front Plant Sci 2020; 11:597. [PMID: 32508861 PMCID: PMC7250167 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Evidence of plant root biomass and production in peatlands at the level of species or plant functional type (PFT) is needed for defining ecosystem functioning and predicting its future development. However, such data are limited due to methodological difficulties and the toilsomeness of separating roots from peat. We developed Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy based calibration models for quantifying the mass proportions of several common peatland species, and alternatively, the PFTs that these species represented, in composite root samples. We further tested whether woody roots could be classified into diameter classes, and whether dead and living roots could be separated. We aimed to solve whether general models applicable in different studies can be developed, and what would be the best way to build such models. FTIR spectra were measured from dried and powdered roots: both "pure roots", original samples of 25 species collected in the field, and "root mixtures", artificial composite samples prepared by mixing known amounts of pure roots of different species. Partial least squares regression was used to build the calibration models. The general applicability of the models was tested using roots collected in different sites or times. Our main finding is that pure roots can replace complex mixtures as calibration data. Using pure roots, we constructed generally applicable models for quantification of roots of the main PFTs of northern peatlands. The models provided accurate estimates even for far distant sites, with root mean square error (RMSE) 1.4-6.6% for graminoids, forbs and ferns. For shrubs and trees the estimates were less accurate due to higher within-species heterogeneity, partly related to variation in root diameter. Still, we obtained RMSE 3.9-10.8% for total woody roots, but up to 20.1% for different woody-root types. Species-level and dead-root models performed well within the calibration dataset but provided unacceptable estimates for independent samples, limiting their routine application in field conditions. Our PFT-level models can be applied on roots separated from soil for biomass determination or from ingrowth cores for estimating root production. We present possibilities for further development of species-level or dead-root models using the pure-root approach.
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- Petra Straková
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Financial and Administrative Services, Education Department, City of Vantaa, Vantaa, Finland
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- Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Ecosystem Biology, University of South Bohemia, ČeskéBudějovice, Czechia
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- Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), Helsinki, Finland
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Hädrich A, Taillefert M, Akob DM, Cooper RE, Litzba U, Wagner FE, Nietzsche S, Ciobota V, Rösch P, Popp J, Küsel K. Microbial Fe(II) oxidation by Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 in the presence of Schlöppnerbrunnen fen-derived humic acids. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 95:5381554. [PMID: 30874727 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiz034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Controlled laboratory experiments were combined with field measurements to better understand the interactions between dissolved organic matter (DOM) and reduced iron in organic-rich peatlands. Addition of peat-derived humic acid extract (HA) to Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 liquid cultures led to higher cell numbers and up to 1.4 times higher Fe(II) oxidation rates compared to chemical controls. This effect was positively correlated with increasing HA concentrations. Similar Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxide mineralogies were formed both abiotically and biotically irrespective of HA amendment, but minerals formed in the presence of ES-1 and HA were smaller. ES-1 growth with HA promoted aggregation of Fe(III) products in agarose-stabilized gradient tubes as shown by voltammetric profiling. In situ voltammetry in an acidic, iron-rich peatland revealed a gap between oxygen penetration and iron reduction that may reflect active Fe(II)-oxidizing microorganisms. The highest abundance of Fe(II) oxidizers Sideroxydans (4.9 × 107 gene copies gww-1) and Gallionella (1.5 × 107 gene copies gww-1) in the upper peat layer coincided with small-sized minerals resembling nanoparticulate ferrihydrite or goethite. Our results suggest that microbially mediated Fe(II) oxidation dominates in the presence of DOM leading to the formation of nano-sized biogenic Fe(III) (oxyhydr)oxides that might be readily bioavailable and likely important to iron and carbon cycling.
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- Anke Hädrich
- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0340, USA
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany.,Water Resource Mission Area, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., MS 430, Reston, VA 20192, USA
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Technical University Munich, James Frank Strasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Centre of Electron Microscopy, University Hospital Jena, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ziegelmühlenweg 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, D-07743 Jena, Germany.,Rigaku Analytical Devices, Inc., 30 Upton Drive, Wilmington, MA 01887, USA
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, D-07743 Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Photonic Technology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Albert-Einstein-Straße 9, D-07745 Jena, Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Strasse 159, D-07743 Jena, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Gaudig G, Krebs M, Joosten H. Sphagnum growth under N saturation: interactive effects of water level and P or K fertilization. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2020; 22:394-403. [PMID: 31999043 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Sphagnum biomass is a promising material that could be used as a substitute for peat in growing media and can be sustainably produced by converting existing drainage-based peatland agriculture into wet, climate-friendly agriculture (paludiculture). Our study focuses on yield maximization of Sphagnum as a crop. We tested the effects of three water level regimes and of phosphorus or potassium fertilization on the growth of four Sphagnum species (S. papillosum, S. palustre, S. fimbriatum, S. fallax). To simulate field conditions in Central and Western Europe we carried out a glasshouse experiment under nitrogen-saturated conditions. A constant high water table (remaining at 2 cm below capitulum during growth) led to highest productivity for all tested species. Water table fluctuations between 2 and 9 cm below capitulum during growth and a water level 2 cm below capitulum at the start but falling relatively during plant growth led to significantly lower productivity. Fertilization had no effect on Sphagnum growth under conditions with high atmospheric deposition such as in NW Germany (38 kg N, 0.3 kg P, 7.6 kg K·ha-1 ·year-1 ). Large-scale maximization of Sphagnum yields requires precise water management, with water tables just below the capitula and rising with Sphagnum growth. The nutrient load in large areas of Central and Western Europe from atmospheric deposition and irrigation water is high but, with an optimal water supply, does not hamper Sphagnum growth, at least not of regional provenances of Sphagnum.
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- G Gaudig
- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre, Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, partner in the Greifswald Mire Centre, Greifswald, Germany
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Hu C, Ge JW, Xu XN, Tan YS, Yuan CH. [Estimation of evapotranspiration and crop coefficient in Dajiuhu peatland of Shennongjia based on FAO56 Penman-Monteith]. Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao 2020; 31:1699-1706. [PMID: 32530249 DOI: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202005.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We collected evapotranspiration data of Dajiuhu peatland in Shennongjia from 2016 to 2017 with eddy covariance method and estimated the value of crop coefficient (Kc) using FAO56 Penman-Monteith equation and the linear relationship between actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and referenced evapotranspiration (ET0). We analyzed the characteristics of referenced evapotranspiration and its main influencing factors and calculated the crop coefficient of the wetland dominated by Sphagnum. The results showed that the daily averaged ETa were 1.63 and 1.38 mm·d-1 in 2016 and 2017, the daily averaged ET0 were 1.61 and 1.23 mm·d-1 in 2016 and 2017. Environmental factors influencing ET0 included net radiation, air temperature, vapor pressure deficit, wind speed, and relative humidity. The Kc values for the growing seasons of 2016, 2017, and 2016-2017 were 0.95 (R2 of linear regression between ETa and ET0 was 0.96), 1.03 (R2=0.95), and 0.98 (R2=0.95). The Kc values in 2016, 2017, and 2016-2017 were 0.92 (R2=0.94), 0.95 (R2=0.89), and 0.93 (R2=0.92). Kc was effective in the range of 0.92-1.03 for the wetland dominated by Sphagnum. The identified parameters could be widely used in studies on climate change, ecosystem services, and water management in peatlands.
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- Chen Hu
- Laboratory of Basin Hydrology and Wetland Eco-restoration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, China University of Geoscience, Wuhan 430074, China
- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Laboratory of Basin Hydrology and Wetland Eco-restoration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, China University of Geoscience, Wuhan 430074, China
- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Laboratory of Basin Hydrology and Wetland Eco-restoration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, China University of Geoscience, Wuhan 430074, China
- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Laboratory of Basin Hydrology and Wetland Eco-restoration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, China University of Geoscience, Wuhan 430074, China
- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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- Laboratory of Basin Hydrology and Wetland Eco-restoration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
- Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution and Ecological Restoration, China University of Geoscience, Wuhan 430074, China
- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
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McNicol G, Knox SH, Guilderson TP, Baldocchi DD, Silver WL. Where old meets new: An ecosystem study of methanogenesis in a reflooded agricultural peatland. Glob Chang Biol 2020; 26:772-785. [PMID: 31710754 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2019] [Revised: 09/15/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Reflooding formerly drained peatlands has been proposed as a means to reduce losses of organic matter and sequester soil carbon for climate change mitigation, but a renewal of high methane emissions has been reported for these ecosystems, offsetting mitigation potential. Our ability to interpret observed methane fluxes in reflooded peatlands and make predictions about future flux trends is limited due to a lack of detailed studies of methanogenic processes. In this study we investigate methanogenesis in a reflooded agricultural peatland in the Sacramento Delta, California. We use the stable-and radio-carbon isotopic signatures of wetland sediment methane, ecosystem-scale eddy covariance flux observations, and laboratory incubation experiments, to identify which carbon sources and methanogenic production pathways fuel methanogenesis and how these processes are affected by vegetation and seasonality. We found that the old peat contribution to annual methane emissions was large (~30%) compared to intact wetlands, indicating a biogeochemical legacy of drainage. However, fresh carbon and the acetoclastic pathway still accounted for the majority of methanogenesis throughout the year. Although temperature sensitivities for bulk peat methanogenesis were similar between open-water (Q10 = 2.1) and vegetated (Q10 = 2.3) soils, methane production from both fresh and old carbon sources showed pronounced seasonality in vegetated zones. We conclude that high methane emissions in restored wetlands constitute a biogeochemical trade-off with contemporary carbon uptake, given that methane efflux is fueled primarily by fresh carbon inputs.
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- Gavin McNicol
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
- Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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The terrestrial arthropod fauna of wetlands has been largely ignored by scientists compared to other ecological elements, yet these organisms are among the most important influences on the ecology of these systems, with the vast majority of the biodiversity in wetlands found among the terrestrial arthropods. Wetlands present a range of habitat for terrestrial arthropods, with unique faunas being associated with soils and ground litter, living-plant substrates, and peatlands. Myriapoda, Araneae, Collembola, Carabidae, Formicidae, and assorted herbivorous Coleoptera and Lepidoptera are the terrestrial arthropod groups that most influence the ecology of wetlands. Despite their success, most terrestrial arthropods possess fairly rudimentary adaptations for life in wetlands, with most simply moving to higher ground or up vegetation during floods, although some species can tolerate immersion. Many terrestrial arthropods are environmentally sensitive and show considerable promise as bioindicators of wetland ecological conditions.
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- Darold P Batzer
- Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA;
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- Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jillin Province, 130102, P.R. China;
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Norby RJ, Childs J, Hanson PJ, Warren JM. Rapid loss of an ecosystem engineer: Sphagnum decline in an experimentally warmed bog. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:12571-12585. [PMID: 31788198 PMCID: PMC6875578 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2019] [Revised: 09/13/2019] [Accepted: 09/15/2019] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Sphagnum mosses are keystone components of peatland ecosystems. They facilitate the accumulation of carbon in peat deposits, but climate change is predicted to expose peatland ecosystem to sustained and unprecedented warming leading to a significant release of carbon to the atmosphere. Sphagnum responses to climate change, and their interaction with other components of the ecosystem, will determine the future trajectory of carbon fluxes in peatlands. We measured the growth and productivity of Sphagnum in an ombrotrophic bog in northern Minnesota, where ten 12.8-m-diameter plots were exposed to a range of whole-ecosystem (air and soil) warming treatments (+0 to +9°C) in ambient or elevated (+500 ppm) CO2. The experiment is unique in its spatial and temporal scale, a focus on response surface analysis encompassing the range of elevated temperature predicted to occur this century, and consideration of an effect of co-occurring CO2 altering the temperature response surface. In the second year of warming, dry matter increment of Sphagnum increased with modest warming to a maximum at 5°C above ambient and decreased with additional warming. Sphagnum cover declined from close to 100% of the ground area to <50% in the warmest enclosures. After three years of warming, annual Sphagnum productivity declined linearly with increasing temperature (13-29 g C/m2 per °C warming) due to widespread desiccation and loss of Sphagnum. Productivity was less in elevated CO2 enclosures, which we attribute to increased shading by shrubs. Sphagnum desiccation and growth responses were associated with the effects of warming on hydrology. The rapid decline of the Sphagnum community with sustained warming, which appears to be irreversible, can be expected to have many follow-on consequences to the structure and function of this and similar ecosystems, with significant feedbacks to the global carbon cycle and climate change.
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- Richard J. Norby
- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science InstituteOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTNUSA
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- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science InstituteOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTNUSA
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- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science InstituteOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTNUSA
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- Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science InstituteOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTNUSA
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Hamard S, Robroek BJM, Allard PM, Signarbieux C, Zhou S, Saesong T, de Baaker F, Buttler A, Chiapusio G, Wolfender JL, Bragazza L, Jassey VEJ. Effects of Sphagnum Leachate on Competitive Sphagnum Microbiome Depend on Species and Time. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2042. [PMID: 31555245 PMCID: PMC6742715 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Accepted: 08/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Plant specialized metabolites play an important role in soil carbon (C) and nutrient fluxes. Through anti-microbial effects, they can modulate microbial assemblages and associated microbial-driven processes, such as nutrient cycling, so to positively or negatively cascade on plant fitness. As such, plant specialized metabolites can be used as a tool to supplant competitors. These compounds are little studied in bryophytes. This is especially notable in peatlands where Sphagnum mosses can dominate the vegetation and show strong interspecific competition. Sphagnum mosses form carpets where diverse microbial communities live and play a crucial role in Sphagnum fitness by regulating C and nutrient cycling. Here, by means of a microcosm experiment, we assessed to what extent moss metabolites of two Sphagnum species (S. fallax and S. divinum) modulate the competitive Sphagnum microbiome, with particular focus on microbial respiration. Using a reciprocal leachate experiment, we found that interactions between Sphagnum leachates and microbiome are species-specific. We show that both Sphagnum leachates differed in compound richness and compound relative abundance, especially sphagnum acid derivates, and that they include microbial-related metabolites. The addition of S. divinum leachate on the S. fallax microbiome immediately reduced microbial respiration (−95%). Prolonged exposition of S. fallax microbiome to S. divinum leachate destabilized the food web structure due to a modulation of microbial abundance. In particular, leachate addition decreased the biomass of testate amoebae and rotifers but increased that of ciliates. These changes did not influence microbial CO2 respiration, suggesting that the structural plasticity of the food web leads to its functional resistance through the replacement of species that are functionally redundant. In contrast, S. fallax leachate neither affected S. divinum microbial respiration, nor microbial biomass. We, however, found that S. fallax leachate addition stabilized the food web structure associated to S. divinum by changing trophic interactions among species. The differences in allelopathic effects between both Sphagnum leachates might impact their competitiveness and affect species distribution at local scale. Our study further paves the way to better understand the role of moss and microbial specialized metabolites in peatland C dynamics.
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- Samuel Hamard
- ECOLAB, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France.,Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Laboratoire de Géologie, UMR 8538, CNRS-ENS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.,School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.,Aquatic Ecology and Environmental Biology Group, Faculty of Science, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland.,Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement, Université Bourgogne Franche Comté, UMR CNRS 6249 USC INRA, Montbéliard, France
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- Laboratoire Chrono-Environnement, Université Bourgogne Franche Comté, UMR CNRS 6249 USC INRA, Montbéliard, France.,Laboratoire Carrtel, Université Savoie Mont Blanc INRA 042, Domaine Universitaire Belledonne, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
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- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Geneva, University of Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Department of Life Science and Biotechnologies, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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- ECOLAB, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France.,Laboratory of Ecological Systems (ECOS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Blume-Werry G, Milbau A, Teuber LM, Johansson M, Dorrepaal E. Dwelling in the deep - strongly increased root growth and rooting depth enhance plant interactions with thawing permafrost soil. New Phytol 2019; 223:1328-1339. [PMID: 31074867 DOI: 10.1111/nph.15903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2018] [Accepted: 04/12/2019] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Climate-warming-induced permafrost thaw exposes large amounts of carbon and nitrogen in soil at considerable depths, below the seasonally thawing active layer. The extent to which plant roots can reach and interact with these hitherto detached, deep carbon and nitrogen stores remains unknown. We aimed to quantify how permafrost thaw affects root dynamics across soil depths and plant functional types compared with above-ground abundance, and potential consequences for plant-soil interactions. A decade of experimental permafrost thaw strongly increased total root length and growth in the active layer, and deep roots invaded the newly thawed permafrost underneath. Root litter input to soil across all depths was 10 times greater with permafrost thaw. Root growth timing was unaffected by experimental permafrost thaw but peaked later in deeper soil, reflecting the seasonally receding thaw front. Deep-rooting species could sequester 15 N added at the base of the ambient active layer in October, which was after root growth had ceased. Deep soil organic matter that has long been locked up in permafrost is thus no longer detached from plant processes upon thaw. Whether via nutrient uptake, carbon storage, or rhizosphere priming, plant root interactions with thawing permafrost soils may feed back on our climate both positively and negatively.
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- Gesche Blume-Werry
- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 981 07, Abisko, Sweden
- Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 981 07, Abisko, Sweden
- Research Institute for Nature and Forest INBO, Havenlaan 88, Bus 73, 1000, Brussels, Belgium
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 981 07, Abisko, Sweden
- Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Solvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden
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- Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, 981 07, Abisko, Sweden
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Henrys PA, Jarvis SG. Integration of ground survey and remote sensing derived data: Producing robust indicators of habitat extent and condition. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:8104-8112. [PMID: 31380074 PMCID: PMC6662320 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2018] [Revised: 02/19/2019] [Accepted: 05/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
The availability of suitable habitat is a key predictor of the changing status of biodiversity. Quantifying habitat availability over large spatial scales is, however, challenging. Although remote sensing techniques have high spatial coverage, there is uncertainty associated with these estimates due to errors in classification. Alternatively, the extent of habitats can be estimated from ground-based field survey. Financial and logistical constraints mean that on-the-ground surveys have much lower coverage, but they can produce much higher quality estimates of habitat extent in the areas that are surveyed. Here, we demonstrate a new combined model which uses both types of data to produce unified national estimates of the extent of four key habitats across Great Britain based on Countryside Survey and Land Cover Map. This approach considers that the true proportion of habitat per km2 (Zi ) is unobserved, but both ground survey and remote sensing can be used to estimate Zi . The model allows the relationship between remote sensing data and Zi to be spatially biased while ground survey is assumed to be unbiased. Taking a statistical model-based approach to integrating field survey and remote sensing data allows for information on bias and precision to be captured and propagated such that estimates produced and parameters estimated are robust and interpretable. A simulation study shows that the combined model should perform best when error in the ground survey data is low. We use repeat surveys to parameterize the variance of ground survey data and demonstrate that error in this data source is small. The model produced revised national estimates of broadleaved woodland, arable land, bog, and fen, marsh and swamp extent across Britain in 2007.
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Affiliation(s)
- Peter A. Henrys
- NERC Centre for Ecology and HydrologyLancaster Environment CentreLancasterUK
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- NERC Centre for Ecology and HydrologyLancaster Environment CentreLancasterUK
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