Wetland soil incubation treated with sulfate and oxygen

To unravel complex dynamics of environmental disturbance and microbial metabolic activities, we set up laboratory microcosms to investigate the effects of SO42- and O2 alone or in combination on microbial activities and interactions, as well as the resulting fate of carbon within wetland soil. We used proteogenomics to characterize the biochemical and physiological responses of microbial communities to individual perturbations and their combined effects. Stoichiometric models were employed to deconvolute carbon exchanges among the main functional guilds. These findings can contribute to the development of mechanistic models for predicting greenhouse gas emissions from wetland ecosystems under various climate change scenarios.