Domeignoz-Horta Luiz A.

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Luiz A.
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    Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil
    (Nature Research, 2020-07-23) Domeignoz-Horta, Luiz A. ; Pold, Grace ; Liu, Xiao-Jun Allen ; Frey, Serita D. ; Melillo, Jerry M. ; DeAngelis, Kristen M.
    Empirical evidence for the response of soil carbon cycling to the combined effects of warming, drought and diversity loss is scarce. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) plays a central role in regulating the flow of carbon through soil, yet how biotic and abiotic factors interact to drive it remains unclear. Here, we combine distinct community inocula (a biotic factor) with different temperature and moisture conditions (abiotic factors) to manipulate microbial diversity and community structure within a model soil. While community composition and diversity are the strongest predictors of CUE, abiotic factors modulated the relationship between diversity and CUE, with CUE being positively correlated with bacterial diversity only under high moisture. Altogether these results indicate that the diversity × ecosystem-function relationship can be impaired under non-favorable conditions in soils, and that to understand changes in soil C cycling we need to account for the multiple facets of global changes.
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    Substrate availability and not thermal acclimation controls microbial temperature sensitivity response to long‐term warming
    (Wiley, 2022-11-30) Domeignoz‐Horta, Luiz A. ; Pold, Grace ; Erb, Hailey ; Sebag, David ; Verrecchia, Eric ; Northen, Trent ; Louie, Katherine ; Eloe‐Fadrosh, Emiley ; Pennacchio, Christa ; Knorr, Melissa A. ; Frey, Serita D. ; Melillo, Jerry M. ; DeAngelis, Kristen M.
    Microbes are responsible for cycling carbon (C) through soils, and predicted changes in soil C stocks under climate change are highly sensitive to shifts in the mechanisms assumed to control the microbial physiological response to warming. Two mechanisms have been suggested to explain the long‐term warming impact on microbial physiology: microbial thermal acclimation and changes in the quantity and quality of substrates available for microbial metabolism. Yet studies disentangling these two mechanisms are lacking. To resolve the drivers of changes in microbial physiology in response to long‐term warming, we sampled soils from 13‐ and 28‐year‐old soil warming experiments in different seasons. We performed short‐term laboratory incubations across a range of temperatures to measure the relationships between temperature sensitivity of physiology (growth, respiration, carbon use efficiency, and extracellular enzyme activity) and the chemical composition of soil organic matter. We observed apparent thermal acclimation of microbial respiration, but only in summer, when warming had exacerbated the seasonally‐induced, already small dissolved organic matter pools. Irrespective of warming, greater quantity and quality of soil carbon increased the extracellular enzymatic pool and its temperature sensitivity. We propose that fresh litter input into the system seasonally cancels apparent thermal acclimation of C‐cycling processes to decadal warming. Our findings reveal that long‐term warming has indirectly affected microbial physiology via reduced C availability in this system, implying that earth system models including these negative feedbacks may be best suited to describe long‐term warming effects on these soils.Warming can accelerate or decelerate soil microbial response to warmer temperatures. Here we provide support for the hypothesis that microbial temperature sensitivity is contingent upon substrate availability, which itself is reduced by warming. Thus we show the complex interplay between microbial activity and changes in soil carbon stocks.