Skip to main content

Advertisement

Log in

The role of environmental microorganisms in ecosystem responses to global change: current state of research and future outlooks

  • Published:
Biogeochemistry Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Allison SD, Wallenstein MD, Bradford MA (2010) Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology. Nat Geosci 3:336–340

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bell TH, Henry HAL (2011) Fine scale variability in soil extracellular enzyme activity is insensitive to rain events and temperature in a mesic system. Pedobiologia 54:141–146

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Brown JR, Blankinship JC, Niboyet A, van Groenigen CJ, Dijkstra P, Leadley PW, Hungate BA (2011) Effects of multiple global change treatements on soil N2O fluxes. Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9655-2

  • Docherty KM, Balser TC, Bohannan BJM, Gutknecht JLM (2011) Soil microbial responses to fire and interacting global change factors in a California annual grassland. Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9654-3

  • Dooley S, Treseder KK (2011) The effect of fire on microbial biomass: a meta-analysis of field studies. Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9633-8

  • Evans SE, Wallenstein MD (2011) Soil microbial community response to drying and rewetting stress: Do microorganisms adapt to altered rainfall timing? Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9638-3

  • Fierer N, Jackson RB (2006) The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 103:626–631

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gans J, Wolinsky M, Dunbar J (2005) Computational improvements reveal great bacterial diversity and high metal toxicity in soil. Science 209:1387–1390

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Gerber S, Hedin LO, Oppenheimer M, Pacala SW, Shevliakova E (2010) Nitrogen cycling and feedbacks in a global dynamic land model. Glob Biogeochem Cycles 24:1001

    Google Scholar 

  • IPCC (2007) Working group I contribution to the IPCC fourth assessment report. Climate change 2007: the physical science basis

  • Lawrence CR, Neff JC, Schimel JP (2009) Does adding microbial mechanisms of decomposition improve soil organic matter models? A comparison of four models using data from a pulsed rewetting experiment. Soil Biol Biochem 41:1923–1934

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Roesch LFW, Fulthorpe RR, Riva A, Casella G, Hadwin AKM, Kent AD, Daroub SH, Camargo FAO, Farmerie WG, Triplett EW (2007) Pyrosequencing enumerates and contrasts soil microbial diversity. ISME J 1:283–290

    Google Scholar 

  • Schloss PD, Handelsman J (2006) Toward a census of bacteria in soil. PLOS Comput Biol 2:786–793

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Todd-Brown K, Hopkins F, Kivlin S, Talbot J, Allison SD (2011) A framework for representing microbial decomposition in coupled climate models. Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9635-6

  • Treseder KK, Balser TC, Bradford MA, Brodie EL, Dubinsky EA, Eviner VT, Hofmockel KS, Lennon JT, MacGregor BJ, Pett-Ridge J, Waldrop MP (2011) Integrating microbial ecology into ecosystem models: challenges and priorities. Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9636-5

  • Wallenstein MD, Hall EK (2011) A trait-based framework for predicting when and where microbial adaptation to climate change will affect ecosystem functioning. Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9641-8

  • Wallenstein MD, Weintraub MN (2008) Emerging tools for measuring and modeling the in situ activity of soil extracellular enzymes. Soil Biol Biochem 40:2098–2106

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Yavitt JB, Yashiro E, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Zinder SH (2011) Methanogen diversity and community composition in peatlands of the central to northern Appalachian Mountain Region, North America. Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-011-9644-5

Download references

Acknowledgments

The guest editors would like to express their gratitude to the Microbial Ecology, Biogeosciences and Soil Sciences Sections of the Ecological Society of America for sponsoring the symposium that inspired this special issue. Additionally, the symposium would not have been possible without travel funding from the United States Department of Energy (DOE 00001781079218). We would specifically like to thank Joseph Graber (DOE) for his encouragement and help with obtaining this travel funding. We would like to thank the eight invited speakers who participated in this symposium and panel discussion and Jessica Gutknecht, (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ) who moderated the session: Steve Allison, UC-Irvine; Teri Balser, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Brendan Bohannan, University of Oregon; Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kathryn Docherty, University of Oregon; Audrey Niboyet, Université de Lyon; Kathleen Treseder, UC-Irvine; Matt Wallenstein, Colorado State University. PDF and MP3 files of these talks can be accessed through Nature Precedings by searching the author name within the ESA 2010 archive at http://precedings.nature.com/collections/esa-2010. Finally, we would like to thank Kate Lajtha, Editor-in-Chief of Biogeochemistry for her interest in the publication of this special issue, Brighid Docherty for her artistic expertise on the cover design, and the nineteen external reviewers for their comments and suggestions for the manuscripts presented here.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Kathryn M. Docherty.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Docherty, K.M., Gutknecht, J.L.M. The role of environmental microorganisms in ecosystem responses to global change: current state of research and future outlooks. Biogeochemistry 109, 1–6 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-011-9614-y

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-011-9614-y

Keywords

Navigation