Response of peatland microbial diversity to climate change

Warming, precipitation shifts, and extreme events are strongly impacting microbial communities, which in turn are likely to disrupt the peatland C balance. Our research aims to understand and predict the specific responses of microorganisms to climate change, in terms of diversity, community structure, and species interactions. We also aim to extrapolate the effects of climate change on microbial attributes at a global peatland scale to quantify the microbial-induced effects on the global carbon cycle. These data are from a reciprocal transplant experiment. See Sytiuk et al. 2023 New Phytol. 237 1164:1178 for more info on the experimental design.