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Article
Authorship
Siyi Sun
;
Jiacong Zhou
;
Carsten W. Mueller
;
Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
;
Yixuan Zhang
;
Kees Jan van Groenigen
;
Andrew Nottingham
;
Wolfram Buss
;
Xin Chen
;
Sergio Velasco Ayuso
;
Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen
;
Ying Ma
;
Shuo Liu
;
SCHOLZ, FABIAN GUSTAVO
;
Wolfgang Wanek
;
Jørgen Eivind Olesen
;
Junji Cao
;
Ji Chen
Date
2026
Publishing House and Editing Place
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
Magazine
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
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Global warming affects both plant growth and soil microbial decomposition, creating uncertainty for the storage and persistence of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock. Limited decomposition rates often characterise cold alpine ecosystems. Yet, warming may increase their microbial activity, affecting SOC sequestration.Here, we present findings from a 14-year field warming study carried out in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.Warming significantly increased mineral-associated organic c...
Global warming affects both plant growth and soil microbial decomposition, creating uncertainty for the storage and persistence of soil organic carbon (SOC) stock. Limited decomposition rates often characterise cold alpine ecosystems. Yet, warming may increase their microbial activity, affecting SOC sequestration.Here, we present findings from a 14-year field warming study carried out in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.Warming significantly increased mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) by 11% in topsoil and 6% in subsoil—primarily through an increase in iron/aluminium-bound organic carbon (Fe/Al-OC) in topsoil and calcium-bound organic carbon (Ca-OC) in subsoil. On the contrary, warming did not affect particulate organic carbon (POC).MAOC content was strongly positively correlated with soil fungal biomass and fungal necromass carbon, highlighting the role of fungal-derived carbon inputs.Our results reveal distinctly different responses of SOC pools to long-term warming and underscore the importance of organo-mineral interactions in shaping SOC dynamics in cold ecosystems under climate change.
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Key Words
iron/aluminium-bound organic carbonparticulate organic carbonlong-term experimental warmingcalcium-bound organic