Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry

Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry focuses on the biotic responses to warmer soils including plant and microbial evolution. In addition, the proposed volume covers various field settings, such as temperate forests, tropical forest, subalpine forests, arctic tundra, grasslands and alpine meadows. This volume spans and integrates multiple natural science disciplines, providing a holistic integrative approach to understanding and forecasting future planetary responses to soil warming. Ecosystem Consequences of Soil Warming: Microbes, Vegetation, Fauna and Soil Biogeochemistry will appeal to soil scientists, ecologists and geneticists, as well as molecular, evolutionary and conservation biologists interested in understanding and planning for the future for organisms’ and ecosystems’ responses to warmer soil conditions.

Includes a strong emphasis on biological components of soil providing linkages to physics and chemistryBrings together chapters written by global experts with interests in science communication and educationProvides a holistic view of the soil food web using community sequencing

1. Reflections on 27 years of manipulated ecosystem warming in a subalpine meadow 2. A holistic view of the soil food web using community sequencing 3. Evolutionary consequences of climate change 4. Plant Reproductive Fitness and Phenology Responses to Climate Warming: Results from Native Populations, Communities and Ecosystems 5. Plant biochemistry impacts ecosystem responses to soil warming and drought 6. Effects of warming on fungal leaf endophytes: impacts on physiology, species richness, and composition 7. Microbial responses to experimental soil warming: Five testable hypotheses 8. Mycorrhizal mediation of plant and ecosystem responses to soil warming 9. The temperature sensitivity of soil carbon 10. The role of soil physical properties for determining biogeochemical responses to soil warming 11. Soil warming and winter snowpacks: Implications for northern forest ecosystem functioning 12. Soil Fauna and their Potential Responses to Warmer Soils 13. Responses of alpine plant communities to climate warming 14. Responses of grasslands to experimental warming 15. Soil warming effects on low-latitude forests with highly-weathered soils 16. Long-term warming research in high-latitude ecosystems: Responses from polar ecosystems and implications for future climate