Microbial Community Changes in 26,500-Year-Old Thawing Permafrost

• Published in: Frontiers in microbiology Vol. 13; p. 787146
• Main Authors: Scheel, Maria, Zervas, Athanasios, Jacobsen, Carsten S., Christensen, Torben R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 24.03.2022
• Subjects: 16S; abrupt thaw; amplicon sequencing; fungi; Greenland; Microbiology; permafrost erosion; biodiversity; fungi; amplicon sequencing; permafrost erosion; 16S; Greenland; abrupt thaw; soil microbiome

Northern permafrost soils store more than half of the global soil carbon. Frozen for at least two consecutive years, but often for millennia, permafrost temperatures have increased drastically in the last decades. The resulting thermal erosion leads not only to gradual thaw, resulting in an increase...