Positive Feedback on Climate Warming by Stream Microbial Decomposers Indicated by a Global Space-For-Time Substitution Study.
| Title: | Positive Feedback on Climate Warming by Stream Microbial Decomposers Indicated by a Global Space-For-Time Substitution Study. |
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| Authors: | Pérez J; Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain.; Department of Biology and Geology and Andalusian Center ENGLOBA, University of Almería (UAL), Almería, Spain.; Boyero L; Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain.; Basque Foundation for Science, IKERBASQUE, Bilbao, Spain.; Pearson RG; Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.; Gessner MO; Department of Plankton and Microbial Ecology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Stechlin, Germany.; Department of Ecology, Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), Berlin, Germany.; Tonin A; Department of Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasilia, Brazil.; López-Rojo N; Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain.; RiverLy Research Unit, National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), CenterLyon-Grenoble Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France.; Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, Université Grenoble Alpes, Université Savoie Mt-Blanc, CNRS, LECA, Grenoble, France.; Rubio-Ríos J; Department of Biology and Geology and Andalusian Center ENGLOBA, University of Almería (UAL), Almería, Spain.; Correa-Araneda F; Unidad de Cambio Climático y Medio Ambiente (UCCMA), Instituto Iberoamericano de Desarrollo Sostenible (IIDS), Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Temuco, Chile.; Alonso A; Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain.; Cornejo A; Ecology and Aquatic Ecotoxicology Laboratory, Research Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Divisa, Panama.; National Research System of Panama, Panama.; Albariño RJ; INIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue-CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina.; Anbalagan S; Government Arts College, Madurai, India.; Barmuta LA; Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.; Boulton AJ; School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.; Burdon FJ; Department of Aquatic Sciences & Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.; Caliman A; Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.; Callisto M; Laboratório de Ecologia de Bentos, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.; Campbell IC; Rhithroecology, Blackburn South, Victoria, Australia.; Cardinale BJ; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.; Carneiro LS; Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.; Casas JJ; Department of Biology and Geology and Andalusian Center ENGLOBA, University of Almería (UAL), Almería, Spain.; Chará-Serna AM; Centro para la Investigación en Sistemas Sostenibles de Producción Agropecuaria (CIPAV), Cali, Colombia.; Illinois River Biological Station, Illinois Natural History Survey, Division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Havana, Illinois, USA.; Chauvet E; Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse CNRS, Toulouse, France.; Colón-Gaud C; Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA.; Davis AM; Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER), James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.; de Eyto E; Marine Institute, Newport, Ireland.; Degebrodt M; Department of Plankton and Microbial Ecology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Stechlin, Germany.; Díaz ME; Centro de Recursos Hídricos para la Agricultura y la Minería (CRHIAM), Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.; Douglas MM; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.; Encalada AC; Instituto BIOSFERA, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.; Figueroa R; Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales y Centro EULA-Chile, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.; Flecker AS; Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.; Fleituch T; Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland.; Frainer A; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway.; Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.; García EA; Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia.; García G; Ecology and Aquatic Ecotoxicology Laboratory, Research Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Gorgas Memorial Institute of Health Studies, Divisa, Panama.; García PE; Escuela de Biología, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala.; Organismal Biology, Ecology, & Evolution (OBEE) Program at the University of Montana United State of America, Missoula, Montana, USA.; Giller PS; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland.; Gómez JE; Departamento de Ciencias Agroambientales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.; Gonçalves JF Jr; Departamento de Ecologia-IB, Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil.; Graça MAS; Department of Life Sciences & MARE- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.; Hall RO Jr; Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA.; Hamada N; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade-COBIO, Manaus, Brazil.; Hepp LU; Laboratório de Indicadores Ambientais, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Três Lagoas, Brazil.; Hui C; Department of Mathematical Sciences, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.; National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS), African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa.; Imazawa D; Integrated Graduate School of Medicine, Engineering, and Agricultural Sciences, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.; Iwata T; Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan.; Junior ESA; Laboratório de Microbiologia Ambiental, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.; Landeira-Dabarca A; Rhithroecology, Blackburn South, Victoria, Australia.; Department of Life Sciences & MARE- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.; Leal M; Laboratorio de Contaminación Acuática y Ecología Fluvial, Departamento de Biología, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.; Lehosmaa K; Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.; M'Erimba CM; Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya.; Marchant R; Museums Victoria Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.; Martins RT; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade-COBIO, Manaus, Brazil.; Masese FO; Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Science, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya.; Maul M; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.; McKie BG; Department of Aquatic Sciences & Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.; Medeiros AO; Laboratório de Microbiologia Ambiental, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.; Middleton JA; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.; Muotka T; Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.; Negishi JN; Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.; Ramírez A; Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.; Rezende RS; Program of Postgraduate in Environmental Science, Communitarian University of Chapecó Region, Chapecó, Brazil.; Richardson JS; Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.; Rincón J; Laboratorio de Contaminación Acuática y Ecología Fluvial, Departamento de Biología, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela.; Serrano C; Rhithroecology, Blackburn South, Victoria, Australia.; Shaffer AR; Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA.; Sheldon F; Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.; Swan CM; Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.; Tenkiano NSD; Université Julius N'Yerere de Kankan, Kankan, Guinea.; Tiegs SD; Department of Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA.; Tolod JR; Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.; Vernasky M; Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia.; Wanderi EW; Department of Fisheries & Aquatic Science, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya.; Watson A; Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.; Yule CM; School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia. |
| Source: | Global change biology [Glob Chang Biol] 2025 Apr; Vol. 31 (4), pp. e70171. |
| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Journal Info: | Publisher: Blackwell Pub Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9888746 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1365-2486 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13541013 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Glob Chang Biol Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: : Oxford : Blackwell Pub.; Original Publication: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science, 1995- |
| MeSH Terms: | Rivers*/microbiology ; Climate Change* ; Global Warming*; Plants/metabolism ; Temperature ; Carbon Cycle |
| Abstract: | Decomposition of plant litter is a key ecological process in streams, whose contribution to the global carbon cycle is large relative to their extent on Earth. We examined the mechanisms underlying the temperature sensitivity (TS) of instream decomposition and forecast effects of climate warming on this process. Comparing data from 41 globally distributed sites, we assessed the TS of microbial and total decomposition using litter of nine plant species combined in six mixtures. Microbial decomposition conformed to the metabolic theory of ecology and its TS was consistently higher than that of total decomposition, which was higher than found previously. Litter quality influenced the difference between microbial and total decomposition, with total decomposition of more recalcitrant litter being more sensitive to temperature. Our projections suggest that (i) warming will enhance the microbial contribution to decomposition, increasing CO2 outgassing and intensifying the warming trend, especially in colder regions; and (ii) riparian species composition will have a major influence on this process.; (© 2025 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.) |
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| Grant Information: | UAL18-RNM-B006-B 2014-2020 Operational Programme FEDER Andalusia; IT951-16 Eusko Jaurlaritza; IT1471-22 Eusko Jaurlaritza; UIDB/04292/2020 Funda ç ão para a Ci ência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; UAL-HIPATIA |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: carbon cycle; detritivores; global change; globally distributed study; litter quality; metabolic theory of ecology; microorganisms; plant litter decomposition; stream ecosystem functioning; temperature sensitivity; Local Abstract: [Publisher, Spanish; Castilian] La descomposición de materia vegetal es un proceso ecológico clave en los ecosistemas fluviales, cuya contribución al ciclo global del carbono es significativa en relación con su extensión en la Tierra. Examinamos los mecanismos que subyacen a la sensibilidad a la temperatura de la descomposición en ríos y proyectamos los efectos del calentamiento climático sobre este proceso. Comparando datos de 41 sitios de estudio distribuidos globalmente, evaluamos la sensibilidad a la temperatura de la descomposición microbiana y total, utilizando hojarasca de nueve especies combinadas en seis mezclas. La descomposición microbiana se ajustó a la teoría metabólica de la ecología, presentando una sensibilidad a la temperatura consistentemente mayor que la total, que a su vez fue más alta que la reportada previamente. La calidad de la hojarasca influyó en la diferencia entre la descomposición microbiana y la total, siendo la descomposición total de hojarascas más recalcitrantes más sensible a la temperatura. Nuestras proyecciones sugieren que (i) el calentamiento global incrementará la contribución microbiana a la descomposición, aumentando la emisión de CO2 y reforzando la presente tendencia al calentamiento, especialmente en regiones más frías; y que (ii) la composición de especies ribereñas tendrá una influencia significativa en este proceso. |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20250405 Date Completed: 20250516 Latest Revision: 20250516 |
| Update Code: | 20260130 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/gcb.70171 |
| PMID: | 40186595 |
| Database: | MEDLINE |
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