Overview Fire, a natural ecological disturbance, has been suppressed in U.S. forests for much of the past century. This has prevented damage to property and protected timber resources, but has caused many forests to develop in an unnatural manner, resulting in dense...
Effects of sudden warming on microbial metabolism Soil is the largest carbon (C) pool in the terrestrial biosphere and any change in its size may influence the atmospheric CO2 concentration and feed back to ongoing climate change. Most soil microorganisms utilize...
We study soil microbial communities in Antarctica, microbes in hot spring ecosystems in Tengchong, China, methane production at Axel Heiberg Island near Greenland as an analog for life on other planets, and the distribution of soil microbial communities across the...
