Add SPRUCE Peatland Warming Microbial Community #24
Description
The SPRUCE (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) experiment at Marcell Experimental Forest, MN provides a whole-ecosystem warming gradient (+0 to +9C) with eCO2. Microbial community responses have been characterized via amplicon sequencing and metatranscriptomics.
Key features:
- Warming promotes saprophytic fungi and chemoorganoheterotrophic bacteria
- eCO2 promotes ectomycorrhizal fungal associations
- Vascular plant fine root traits mediate climate change effects on microbial communities
- DOE-funded long-term experiment (ORNL)
Primary refs:
- PMID:38515239 (doi:10.1111/nph.19690) - root-associated microbes under warming
- PMID:34836550 (doi:10.1186/s40168-021-01156-0) - peat viromes
This is a natural community (not synthetic) but well-characterized with defined warming treatments.