mBio (Feb 2021)

Microbial Functional Responses Explain Alpine Soil Carbon Fluxes under Future Climate Scenarios

  • Qi Qi,
  • Yue Haowei,
  • Zhenhua Zhang,
  • Joy D. Van Nostrand,
  • Linwei Wu,
  • Xue Guo,
  • Jiajie Feng,
  • Mengmeng Wang,
  • Sihang Yang,
  • Jianshu Zhao,
  • Qun Gao,
  • Qiuting Zhang,
  • Mengxin Zhao,
  • Changyi Xie,
  • Zhiyuan Ma,
  • Jin-Sheng He,
  • Haiyan Chu,
  • Yi Huang,
  • Jizhong Zhou,
  • Yunfeng Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00761-20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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The warming pace in the Tibetan Plateau, which is predominantly occupied by grassland ecosystems, has been 0.2°C per decade in recent years, dwarfing the rate of global warming by a factor of 2. Many Earth system models project substantial carbon sequestration in Tibet, which has been observed.