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  • Microbiology
  • Climate change research

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  • Climate warming is expected to increase soil carbon loss.
  • Soil microbiomes and microenvironments may mitigate this effect.
  • Soil aggregates provide physical protection influencing microbial responses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how microbial communities respond to long-term climate warming across different soil microenvironments.
  • To explore the role of physical protection within soil aggregates in mediating these responses.
  • To understand microbial adaptation strategies to warming.

Main Methods:

  • A 30-year warming experiment was conducted.
  • Metagenomic analysis was used to study microbial functional genes.
  • Physical characterization of soil aggregates was performed.
  • Microbial community composition and diversity were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Warming decreased genes for labile compound degradation (e.g., cellulose) and increased genes for recalcitrant compound degradation (e.g., lignin).
  • Bacterial diversity and fungal diversity declined, while archaeal diversity remained stable.
  • Microbial functional genes, diversity, and community composition varied between macroaggregates and microaggregates.
  • Specific bacterial phyla (Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Planctomycetes) showed significant changes.

Conclusions:

  • Soil physical protection within aggregates is crucial for regulating microbial community dynamics under warming.
  • Microbial communities exhibit adaptive capacity to climate warming by altering functional gene abundances and community structures.
  • Microbial responses vary across different soil microenvironments, highlighting the importance of microscale heterogeneity.