Genetic patterning in hippocampus of rat undergoing impaired spatial memory induced by long-term heat stress.

The organism's normal physiological function is greatly impacted in a febrile environment, leading to the manifestation of pathological conditions including elevated body temperature, dehydration, gastric bleeding, and spermatogenic dysfunction. Numerous lines of evidence indicate that heat stress significantly impacts the brain's structure and function. Previous studies have demonstrated that both animals and humans experience cognitive impairment as a result of exposure to high temperatures.

Experimental warming altered plant functional traits and their coordination in a permafrost ecosystem.

Knowledge about changes in plant functional traits is valuable for the mechanistic understanding of warming effects on ecosystem functions. However, observations have tended to focus on aboveground plant traits, and there is little information about changes in belowground plant traits or the coordination of above- and belowground traits under climate warming, particularly in permafrost ecosystems. Based on a 7-yr field warming experiment, we measured 26 above- and belowground plant traits of four dominant species, and explored community functional composition and trait networks in response to experimental warming in a permafrost ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau.

Divergent Trajectory of Soil Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Respiration upon Permafrost Thaw.

Warming-induced permafrost thaw may stimulate soil respiration (Rs) and thus cause a positive feedback to climate warming. However, due to the limited in situ observations, it remains unclear about how Rs and its autotrophic (Ra) and heterotrophic (Rh) components change upon permafrost thaw. Here we monitored variations in Rs and its components along a permafrost thaw sequence on the Tibetan Plateau, and explored the potential linkage of Rs components (i.

Nitrogen input enhances microbial carbon use efficiency by altering plant-microbe-mineral interactions.

Microbial growth and respiration are at the core of the soil carbon (C) cycle, as these microbial physiological performances ultimately determine the fate of soil C. Microbial C use efficiency (CUE), a critical metric to characterize the partitioning of C between microbial growth and respiration, thus controls the sign and magnitude of soil C-climate feedback. Despite its importance, the response of CUE to nitrogen (N) input and the relevant regulatory mechanisms remain poorly understood, leading to large uncertainties in predicting soil C dynamics under continuous N input.

Phosphorus rather than nitrogen regulates ecosystem carbon dynamics after permafrost thaw.

Ecosystem carbon (C) dynamics after permafrost thaw depends on more than just climate change since soil nutrient status may also impact ecosystem C balance. It has been advocated that nitrogen (N) release upon permafrost thaw could promote plant growth and thus offset soil C loss. However, compared with the widely accepted C-N interactions, little is known about the potential role of soil phosphorus (P) availability.

Magnitude and Drivers of Potential Methane Oxidation and Production across the Tibetan Alpine Permafrost Region.

Methane (CH) dynamics across permafrost regions is critical in determining the magnitude and direction of permafrost carbon (C)-climate feedback. However, current studies are mainly derived from the Arctic area, with limited evidence from other permafrost regions. By combining large-scale laboratory incubation across 51 sampling sites with machine learning techniques and bootstrap analysis, here, we determined regional patterns and dominant drivers of CH oxidation potential in alpine steppe and meadow (CH sink areas) and CH production potential in swamp meadow (CH source areas) across the Tibetan alpine permafrost region.

Unimodal Response of Soil Methane Consumption to Increasing Nitrogen Additions.

Nitrogen (N) status has a great impact on methane (CH) consumption by soils. Modeling studies predicting soil CH consumption assume a linear relationship between CH uptake and N addition rate. Here, we present evidence that a nonlinear relationship may better characterize changes in soil CH uptake with increasing N additions.

Ultraviolet radiation rather than inorganic nitrogen increases dissolved organic carbon biodegradability in a typical thermo-erosion gully on the Tibetan Plateau.

Permafrost thaw could lead to frozen carbon (C) being laterally transferred to aquatic systems as dissolved organic carbon (DOC). If this part of DOC has high biodegradability, it could be decomposed during the delivery process, release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere and trigger positive C-climate feedback. Thermokarst is an abrupt permafrost thaw process that can enhance DOC export and also impact DOC processing through increased inorganic nitrogen (N) and ultraviolet (UV) light exposure.

Magnitude and Pathways of Increased Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Uplands Following Permafrost Thaw.

Permafrost thawing may release nitrous oxide (NO) due to large N storage in cold environments. However, NO emissions from permafrost regions have received little attention to date, particularly with respect to the underlying microbial mechanisms. We examined the magnitude of NO fluxes following upland thermokarst formation along a 20-year thaw sequence within a thermo-erosion gully in a Tibetan swamp meadow.

Changes in Methane Flux along a Permafrost Thaw Sequence on the Tibetan Plateau.

Permafrost thaw alters the physical and environmental conditions of soil and may thus cause a positive feedback to climate warming through increased methane emissions. However, the current knowledge of methane emissions following thermokarst development is primarily based on expanding lakes and wetlands, with upland thermokarst being studied less often. In this study, we monitored the methane emissions during the peak growing seasons of two consecutive years along a thaw sequence within a thermo-erosion gully in a Tibetan swamp meadow.

Warming effects on permafrost ecosystem carbon fluxes associated with plant nutrients.

Large uncertainties exist in carbon (C)-climate feedback in permafrost regions, partly due to an insufficient understanding of warming effects on nutrient availabilities and their subsequent impacts on vegetation C sequestration. Although a warming climate may promote a substantial release of soil C to the atmosphere, a warming-induced increase in soil nutrient availability may enhance plant productivity, thus offsetting C loss from microbial respiration. Here, we present evidence that the positive temperature effect on carbon dioxide (CO ) fluxes may be weakened by reduced plant nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P) concentrations in a Tibetan permafrost ecosystem.

Linkages of plant stoichiometry to ecosystem production and carbon fluxes with increasing nitrogen inputs in an alpine steppe.

Unprecedented levels of nitrogen (N) have entered terrestrial ecosystems over the past century, which substantially influences the carbon (C) exchange between the atmosphere and biosphere. Temperature and moisture are generally regarded as the major controllers over the N effects on ecosystem C uptake and release. N-phosphorous (P) stoichiometry regulates the growth and metabolisms of plants and soil organisms, thereby affecting many ecosystem C processes.

In-situ Liquid Phase Epitaxy: Another Strategy to Synthesize Heterostructured Core-shell Composites.

Core-shell Nb2O5/TiO2 composite with hierarchical heterostructure is successfully synthesized In-situ by a facile template-free and acid-free solvothermal method based on the mechanism of liquid phase epitaxy. The chemical circumstance change induced by the alcoholysis of NbCl5 is utilized tactically to trigger core-shell assembling In-situ. The tentative mechanism for the self-assembling of core-shell structure and hierarchical structure is explored.