Year: 2015
Type: letter
Abstract: Progress in microbial ecology over the last few decades has resulted in a new generation of global change models that contemplate microbial feedbacks and offer predictions of an unparalleled accuracy (1). The microbial components of these models are getting increasingly more realistic. In PNAS, Crowther et al. (2) examine how microbes might respond to long-term warming and N fertilization under field conditions to disentangle the relative role of top-down vs. bottom-up controls. The specific study provides clues to the complexity of brown food webs and in many respects is iconic of how microbial manipulation studies should be conducted in the future.
Author: Stavros D. Veresoglou
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2128309487