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@ARTICLE{Yang:904452,
author = {Yang, Kaijun and Yin, Rui and Peñuelas, Josep and Li,
Zhijie and Tan, Bo and You, Chengming and Wang, Lixia and
Liu, Yang and Zhang, Lijie and Li, Han and Liu, Sining and
Chen, Lianghua and Zhang, Jian and Xu, Zhenfeng},
title = {{D}ivergent effects of snow exclusion on microbial
variables across aggregate size classes},
journal = {Catena},
volume = {206},
issn = {0008-7769},
address = {New York, NY [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-06022},
pages = {105481 -},
year = {2021},
abstract = {Projected changes in winter climate can have large
implications for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.
In particular, increased soil frost associated with reduced
insulating snow cover can affect the structure and activity
of soil microbial communities in cold ecosystems, but little
known about the variability of these effects among the
fractions of soil aggregates. We used a snow-exclusion
experiment to examine the influence of increased soil frost
on microbial biomass and activity in aggregate fractions in
a Tibetan alpine spruce forest. We measured the
concentrations of phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and the
activities of extracellular enzymes involved in carbon and
nutrient cycling in soil aggregate fractions (<0.25 mm,
0.25–2 mm and >2 mm) during early thawing years of 2016
and 2017. We found that snow exclusion reduced the
concentrations of PLFAs (total, bacterial and fungal) and
the activities of enzymes (β-glucosidase,
β-N-acetyl-glucosaminidase and acid phosphatase) in three
aggregate fractions due to severe abiotic environments, but
did not affect the microbial community or enzymatic
stoichiometry. Although they varied across the aggregate
fractions, soil microbial variables responded to snow
exclusion significantly only in the small macroaggregates
(0.25–2 mm), which indicated that aggregate size may have
a stronger effect than did snow exclusion on microbial
variables. Notably, A significant decrease of PLFAs and
enzymatic activities in the small macroaggregates under snow
exclusion revealed that soil microbes in this fraction were
more sensitive to changes in snow cover than in the other
aggregate fractions. These findings highlight the ecological
importance of microbial processes in aggregates in Tibetan
forests experiencing large decreases in snowfall.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {2173 - Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000688449100009},
doi = {10.1016/j.catena.2021.105481},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/904452},
}