Niki I. W. Leblans

TL;DR: A framework is provided for interpreting the links between temperature, microbial activity and soil carbon loss on timescales relevant to Earth’s climate system via their control over microbial biomass.

TL;DR: The sensitivity of SOC to warming was not a function of age or chemical recalcitrance, but triggered by changes in biophysical stabilization mechanisms, such as aggregation.

TL;DR: A minimum subset of variables that should be collected in all climate change studies to allow data re-use and synthesis, and guidance on additional variables critical for different types of synthesis and upscaling are recommended.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how natural geothermal soil temperature gradients in Iceland have been used to study terrestrial ecosystem responses to soil warming, and the experimental approach was evaluated at three study sites in southern Iceland; one grassland site that has been warm for at least 50 years (GO), and another comparable grassland sites (GN) and a Sitka spruce plantation (FN) site that have both been warmed since an earthquake took place in 2008.

TL;DR: It is concluded that temporal variation can be considerable in soil microbial communities, and that future studies need to consider temporal variation in order to reliably capture all drivers of soil microbiome changes.