Soil warming and carbon-cycle feedbacks to the climate system.

By J. Melillo, P. Steudler, J. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens, S. Morrisseau. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature. (2008, background): “2001), previous work at this experimental site (Melillo et al. 2002) showed that the initially elevated rates of soil respiration in the heated soils returned to those of the control soils after the first few years of continuous warming.”
Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends (2013, neutral): “8 Pg C yr 1 °C (1)), which may be partly because during warmer years, increased soil nitrogen mineralization and availability may promote vegetation growth (Melillo et al., 2002).”
Soil and root respiration in mature Alaskan black spruce forests that vary in soil organic matter decomposition rates (2005, background): “Microbes may also appear to acclimate to temperature (Flanagan and Veum 1974), but this may instead result from the relatively quick depletion of easily decomposed soil organic matter (Melillo et al. 2002).”
The microbial aspect of climate change (2016, background): “In fact, these are responsible for the main processes causing greenhouse gas fluxes between soils and the atmosphere (Conrad 1996; Falkowski et al. 2008) and contribute immensely to terrestrial CO2 emissions (Melillo et al. 2002, 2011).”
The effects of substrate composition, quantity, and diversity on microbial activity (2010, background): “This latter finding supports the results of Orwin et al. (2006) and the theoretical model of Loreau (2001) which suggests that diverse substrate mixtures are not likely to increase rates of microbial functions.”
Mesocosm Experiments as a Tool for Ecological Climate-Change Research (2013, background): “Henry and Molau (1997) warmed large sections of Arctic tundra, and similarly large-scale experiments were undertaken in forest soils (e.g. Melillo et al., 2002).”
Integrating microbial ecology into ecosystem models: challenges and priorities (2012, background): “However, in field-based studies, warming-induced increases in soil respiration rates can be short-lived, returning to pre-warming levels within a decade or so (Jarvis and Linder 2000; Luo et al. 2001; Melillo et al. 2002; Oechel et al. 2000; Rustad et al. 2001).”
Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition—what do we know? (2009, background): “The decay rate of the labile SOM is very temperaturesensitive, but not the decay rate of stable SOM (Bradford et al. 2008; Eliasson et al. 2005; Liski et al. 1999; Luo et al. 2001; Melillo et al. 2002; Oechel et al. 2000; Trumbore et al. 1996).”
Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks (2008, background): “, 1999), and whether short-term increases in carbon mineralization—which are commonly observed in warming experiments in the field (Luo et al., 2001; Melillo et al., 2002)—will be sustained due to depletion of substrate availability and acclimation of soil microbial communities to higher temperature”
Chronic N deposition alters root respiration‐tissue N relationship in northern hardwood forests (2012, background): “Increases in soil N availability can occur with both chronic N additions and soil warming (Magill et al., 2000; Rustad et al., 2001; Melillo et al., 2002, 2011), leading to speculation that such factors may lead to greater root tissue N concentration and higher respiration rates (Pregitzer et al.,…”