Integrating McGill Wetland Model (MWM) with peat cohort tracking and microbial controls

Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming

(2020) Jun Cui et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw

(2020) Gustaf Hugelius et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Melanin mitigates the accelerated decay of mycorrhizal necromass with peatland warming

(2019) Christopher W. Fernandez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency in soil: Links to fungal-bacterial dominance, SOC-quality and stoichiometry

(2019) Margarida Soares et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A mechanistic model of microbially mediated soil biogeochemical processes ‐ a reality check

(2019) Simone Fatichi et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Increasing microbial carbon use efficiency with warming predicts soil heterotrophic respiration globally

(2019) Jian‐Sheng Ye et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rapid expansion of northern peatlands and doubled estimate of carbon storage

(2019) Jonathan E. Nichols et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial utilization of low molecular weight organic carbon substrates in cultivated peats in response to warming and soil degradation

(2019) Yuan Wen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stabilization of microbial residues in soil organic matter after two years of decomposition

(2019) Chao Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

PEATMAP: Refining estimates of global peatland distribution based on a meta-analysis

(2018) Jiren Xu et al.   CATENA

Depth rather than microrelief controls microbial biomass and kinetics of C-, N-, P- and S-cycle enzymes in peatland

(2018) Shahnaj Parvin et al.   GEODERMA

Vascular plant-mediated controls on atmospheric carbon assimilation and peat carbon decomposition under climate change

(2018) Konstantin Gavazov et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Partitioning of the net CO2 exchange using an automated chamber system reveals plant phenology as key control of production and respiration fluxes in a boreal peatland

(2018) Järvi Järveoja et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil organic matter quality exerts a stronger control than stoichiometry on microbial substrate use efficiency along a latitudinal transect

(2018) Mounir Takriti et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial dormancy promotes microbial biomass and respiration across pulses of drying-wetting stress

(2018) Alejandro Salazar et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Quality of DOC produced during litter decomposition of peatland plant dominants

(2018) J. Mastný et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Evaluating soil microbial carbon use efficiency explicitly as a function of cellular processes: implications for measurements and models

(2018) Shannon B. Hagerty et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The evolution and application of the reverse Michaelis-Menten equation

(2018) Daryl L. Moorhead et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Tropical peatland carbon storage linked to global latitudinal trends in peat recalcitrance

(2018) Suzanne B. Hodgkins et al.   Nature Communications

Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

(2018) Ashish A. Malik et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial temperature sensitivity and biomass change explain soil carbon loss with warming

(2018) Tom W. N. Walker et al.   Nature Climate Change

Reduced carbon use efficiency and increased microbial turnover with soil warming

(2018) Jianwei Li et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Decomposition responses to climate depend on microbial community composition

(2018) Sydney I. Glassman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Growth explains microbial carbon use efficiency across soils differing in land use and geology

(2018) Qing Zheng et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Cross-biome patterns in soil microbial respiration predictable from evolutionary theory on thermal adaptation

(2018) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Soil moisture drives microbial controls on carbon decomposition in two subtropical forests

(2018) Gangsheng Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Water table fluctuations control CO2 exchange in wet and dry bogs through different mechanisms

(2018) Joshua L. Ratcliffe et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Predicting peatland carbon fluxes from non-destructive plant traits

(2017) Ellie M. Goud et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rate of warming affects temperature sensitivity of anaerobic peat decomposition and greenhouse gas production

(2017) Debjani Sihi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nitrogen limitation of decomposition and decay: How can it occur?

(2017) Colin Averill et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Turnover of carbon and phosphorus in the microbial biomass depending on phosphorus availability

(2017) Marie Spohn et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial community-level regulation explains soil carbon responses to long-term litter manipulations

(2017) Katerina Georgiou et al.   Nature Communications

Effects of long-term fertilization on peat stoichiometry and associated microbial enzyme activity in an ombrotrophic bog

(2016) Andrew J. Pinsonneault et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Stoichiometry of microbial carbon use efficiency in soils

(2016) Robert L. Sinsabaugh et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Vascular plants promote ancient peatland carbon loss with climate warming

(2016) Tom N. Walker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass turnover in a long-term fertilization experiment in a temperate grassland

(2016) Marie Spohn et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temperature the dominant control on the enzyme-latch across a range of temperate peatland types

(2016) Andrew J. Pinsonneault et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass turnover times depending on soil depth – Implications for carbon cycling

(2016) Marie Spohn et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stability of peatland carbon to rising temperatures

(2016) R. M. Wilson et al.   Nature Communications

Importance of vegetation dynamics for future terrestrial carbon cycling

(2015) Anders Ahlström et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Microbial models with data-driven parameters predict stronger soil carbon responses to climate change

(2015) Oleksandra Hararuk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Decadal warming causes a consistent and persistent shift from heterotrophic to autotrophic respiration in contrasting permafrost ecosystems

(2015) Caitlin E. Hicks Pries et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

(2015) E. A. G. Schuur et al.   NATURE

Environmental drivers of carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures in peatland vascular plants along an altitude gradient

(2015) Konstantin Gavazov et al.   OECOLOGIA

Enhanced carbon release under future climate conditions in a peatland mesocosm experiment: the role of phenolic compounds

(2015) Catherine M. Dieleman et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Survival Kinetics of Starving Bacteria Is Biphasic and Density-Dependent

(2015) Andy Phaiboun et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Microbial Community Stratification Linked to Utilization of Carbohydrates and Phosphorus Limitation in a Boreal Peatland at Marcell Experimental Forest, Minnesota, USA

(2014) Xueju Lin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry and microbial processing of organic matter in northern bogs and fens reveals a common P-limitation between peatland types

(2014) Brian H. Hill et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Soil carbon sensitivity to temperature and carbon use efficiency compared across microbial-ecosystem models of varying complexity

(2014) Jianwei Li et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Responses of a tundra system to warming using SCAMPS: a stoichiometrically coupled, acclimating microbe–plant–soil model

(2014) Seeta A. Sistla et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Microbial community dynamics alleviate stoichiometric constraints during litter decay

(2014) Christina Kaiser et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Substrate and environmental controls on microbial assimilation of soil organic carbon: a framework for Earth system models

(2014) Xiaofeng Xu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change reduces the capacity of northern peatlands to absorb the atmospheric carbon dioxide: The different responses of bogs and fens

(2014) Jianghua Wu et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Linking soil microbial communities to vascular plant abundance along a climate gradient

(2014) Luca Bragazza et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Decomposition patterns for foliar litter – A theory for influencing factors

(2014) Björn Berg   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Simulation of CO2 and Attribution Analysis at Six European Peatland Sites Using the ECOSSE Model

(2014) M. Abdalla et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Accelerated microbial turnover but constant growth efficiency with warming in soil

(2014) Shannon B. Hagerty et al.   Nature Climate Change

Carbon use efficiency of microbial communities: stoichiometry, methodology and modelling

(2013) Robert L. Sinsabaugh et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impact of agricultural management practices on soil organic carbon: simulation of Australian wheat systems

(2013) Gang Zhao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temperature sensitivity of peatland C and N cycling: Does substrate supply play a role?

(2013) James T. Weedon et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

(2013) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Climate Change

The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate

(2013) Serita D. Frey et al.   Nature Climate Change

Thermal adaptation of decomposer communities in warming soils

(2013) Mark A. Bradford   Frontiers in Microbiology

Simulating the Carbon Cycling of Northern Peatlands Using a Land Surface Scheme Coupled to a Wetland Carbon Model (CLASS3W-MWM)

(2012) Jianghua Wu et al.   ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN

Development of microbial-enzyme-mediated decomposition model parameters through steady-state and dynamic analyses

(2012) Gangsheng Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Does declining carbon-use efficiency explain thermal acclimation of soil respiration with warming?

(2012) Colin L. Tucker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Diel patterns of autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration among phenological stages

(2012) K. Savage et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A global analysis of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

(2012) Xiaofeng Xu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Organic carbon transformations in high-Arctic peat soils: key functions and microorganisms

(2012) Alexander Tveit et al.   ISME Journal

Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon-use efficiency in soils

(2012) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A theoretical model of C- and N-acquiring exoenzyme activities, which balances microbial demands during decomposition

(2012) Daryl L. Moorhead et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial communities in natural and disturbed peatlands: A review

(2012) R. Andersen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Peatlands in the Earth’s 21st century climate system

(2011) Steve Frolking et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

(2011) Richard T. Conant et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Drought-induced carbon loss in peatlands

(2011) Nathalie Fenner et al.   Nature Geoscience

Changes in variability of soil moisture alter microbial community C and N resource use

(2011) Lisa K. Tiemann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency

(2011) Paul Dijkstra et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The fate of 15N-nitrate in a northern peatland impacted by long term experimental nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilization

(2010) Yangping Xing et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Litter decomposition: what controls it and how can we alter it to sequester more carbon in forest soils?

(2010) Cindy E. Prescott   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The MILLENNIA peat cohort model: predicting past, present and future soil carbon budgets and fluxes under changing climates in peatlands

(2010) A Heinemeyer et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Responses of Vegetation and Ecosystem CO2 Exchange to 9 Years of Nutrient Addition at Mer Bleue Bog

(2010) Sari Juutinen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

CO2fluxes at northern fens and bogs have opposite responses to inter-annual fluctuations in water table

(2010) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

(2010) Steven D. Allison et al.   Nature Geoscience

Linking root production to aboveground plant characteristics and water table in a temperate bog

(2010) Meaghan Thibault Murphy et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Transfer of carbon dioxide and methane through the soil-water-atmosphere system at Mer Bleue peatland, Canada

(2008) Kerry J. Dinsmore et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

High sensitivity of peat decomposition to climate change through water-table feedback

(2008) Takeshi Ise et al.   Nature Geoscience

Patterns of substrate utilization during long-term incubations at different temperatures

(2008) J. Megan Steinweg et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY