Temperature sensitivity of biomass-specific microbial exo-enzyme activities and CO2 efflux is resistant to change across short- and long-term timescales

Global Change Biology
Kyungjin MinSharon A Billings

Abstract

Accurate representation of temperature sensitivity (Q10 ) of soil microbial activity across time is critical for projecting soil CO2 efflux. As microorganisms mediate soil carbon (C) loss via exo-enzyme activity and respiration, we explore temperature sensitivities of microbial exo-enzyme activity and respiratory CO2 loss across time and assess mechanisms associated with these potential changes in microbial temperature responses. We collected soils along a latitudinal boreal forest transect with different temperature regimes (long-term timescale) and exposed these soils to laboratory temperature manipulations at 5, 15, and 25°C for 84 days (short-term timescale). We quantified temperature sensitivity of microbial activity per g soil and per g microbial biomass at days 9, 34, 55, and 84, and determined bacterial and fungal community structure before the incubation and at days 9 and 84. All biomass-specific rates exhibited temperature sensitivities resistant to change across short- and long-term timescales (mean Q10  = 2.77 ± 0.25, 2.63 ± 0.26, 1.78 ± 0.26, 2.27 ± 0.25, 3.28 ± 0.44, 2.89 ± 0.55 for β-glucosidase, N-acetyl-β-d-glucosaminidase, leucine amino peptidase, acid phosphatase, cellobiohydrolase, and CO2 efflux, respective...Continue Reading

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