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Effects of winter snowpack on microbial activity, community composition, and plant-microbe interactions in mixed-hardwood temperate forests.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Effects of winter snowpack on microbial activity, community composition, and plant-microbe interactions in mixed-hardwood temperate forests./
Author:	Sorensen, Patrick O.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-04B(E).
Subject:	Biogeochemistry. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10188902
ISBN:	9781369364682

Effects of winter snowpack on microbial activity, community composition, and plant-microbe interactions in mixed-hardwood temperate forests.
Sorensen, Patrick O.

Effects of winter snowpack on microbial activity, community composition, and plant-microbe interactions in mixed-hardwood temperate forests. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 199 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-04(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2016.

Mean winter air temperatures have risen by 2.5°C over the last 50 years in the northeastern U.S., reducing mean annual winter snowpack depth by 26 cm and the duration of winter snow cover by four days per decade. Because snow cover insulates soil from below-freezing air temperatures, continued declines in snowpack depth are projected to be accompanied by colder winter soil temperatures and more frequent soil freeze-thaw events. Soil bacteria and fungi will play a significant role in the forest ecosystem response to snowpack loss because they are the primary agents that carry out soil organic matter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling. Additionally, the effect of winter snowpack decline on soil bacterial and fungal communities may act indirectly via winter climate change effects on plant roots. The objectives of my dissertation research were to first determine the effect that reductions in winter snow cover has on microbial exoenzyme activity, microbial respiration, net nitrogen (N) mineralization, and net nitrification rates in two mixed-hardwood forests (Harvard Forest, MA and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH). Additionally, I sought to determine the relative role that abiotic factors (i.e., winter snow cover or soil frost) versus biotic factors (i.e., altered root-microbe interactions) contribute to overall changes in soil biogeochemical processes as winter snow cover declines. I found that winter snow depth and duration are related positively to microbial exoenzyme activity and microbial respiration following snowmelt in spring, but this relationship is transient and attenuates into the growing season. By contrast, soil freeze-thaw events during winter result in persistent declines in microbial oxidative enzyme activity that are not compensated for by warming soils during the growing season. Together, these results suggest that loss of winter snow cover will result in lower rates of nutrient cycling in northeastern U.S. hardwood forests. Tree roots interact with winter snow depth to affect net mineralization and nitrification rates, as well as bacterial and fungal community composition. Thus, winter climate change portends a reorganization of root-microbe interactions with important consequences for soil biogeochemical cycling in mixed hardwood forests of the northeastern U.S.

ISBN: 9781369364682Subjects--Topical Terms:

545717
Biogeochemistry.

Effects of winter snowpack on microbial activity, community composition, and plant-microbe interactions in mixed-hardwood temperate forests.
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