About this Research Topic
Global change microbiology is a rapidly developing research field that aims to study the response of microorganisms to worldwide warming and environmental changes and their feedback mechanisms. The polar region is an ideal place to study the response of the microbial community to climate change because it is sensitive to global change. Therefore, to understand the role of microorganisms in Polar Regions on climate change, we can further clarify how microorganisms respond to, adapt, and mitigate global change. Furthermore, whether pathogens including viruses, archaea, bacteria and fungi stored in alpine regions will be released under the action of climate change and trigger a new round of pandemic events is also worth discussing.
Antarctica, the Arctic and the third pole, the "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", are more sensitive to climate change. Microbial communities in these regions have been changing the climate, and the weather also changes them. This Research Topic aims to bring together a series of articles researching microbial community in Polar Regions responses and adaptation to global change. These themes highlight fundamental advances in climate change's direct and indirect effects on soil microorganisms—changes in ecosystem functions caused by altered microbial community and abundance. We encourage submissions about climate feedback and the carbon cycle caused by microbial community change. We also welcome suggestions on the possibility and model simulation of pathogen transmission caused by polar region climate change.
This Research Topic is open for articles – Original Research, Perspectives, Reviews, Methods and other article types allowed by Extreme Microbiology section of Frontiers in Microbiology.
We especially encourage contributions related to the following issues:
• Melting of polar frozen soil and soil microorganisms
• Altitude difference and soil microorganisms
• Mining and utilization of environmental sensitive microbial genes in polar regions
• Microbial feedback mechanism to climate change
• Microbial responses mechanism to climate change
• Possibility and potential harm of local outbreak and extinction of microbial community caused by climate change
Antarctica, the Arctic and the third pole, the "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", are more sensitive to climate change. Microbial communities in these regions have been changing the climate, and the weather also changes them. This Research Topic aims to bring together a series of articles researching microbial community in Polar Regions responses and adaptation to global change. These themes highlight fundamental advances in climate change's direct and indirect effects on soil microorganisms—changes in ecosystem functions caused by altered microbial community and abundance. We encourage submissions about climate feedback and the carbon cycle caused by microbial community change. We also welcome suggestions on the possibility and model simulation of pathogen transmission caused by polar region climate change.
This Research Topic is open for articles – Original Research, Perspectives, Reviews, Methods and other article types allowed by Extreme Microbiology section of Frontiers in Microbiology.
We especially encourage contributions related to the following issues:
• Melting of polar frozen soil and soil microorganisms
• Altitude difference and soil microorganisms
• Mining and utilization of environmental sensitive microbial genes in polar regions
• Microbial feedback mechanism to climate change
• Microbial responses mechanism to climate change
• Possibility and potential harm of local outbreak and extinction of microbial community caused by climate change
Keywords: Polar region, microbial community, global change, warming, terrestrial ecosystems
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